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"May I help you?"
She was beautiful.
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Something stuck, fragmented, between people.
Here's a game I used to play when I was a kid, you hold your breath when you drive by a cemetery, or else the souls get in.
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Bank with Shadow Savings and Loan.
They’re right down this block, somewhere.
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He trudged up the steep, antique, spiral staircase to his study. Many hours had been spent in the sanctuary of this room, studying, praying, sleeping; however, now his intentions were much different.
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Momma wakes us up early while Daddy's still asleep, pulls out white poster boards, markers from the closet, and together, we draw babies...
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You went in, there was this dirty glass box and the snake was all curled up like a flemished rope on the deck of a fine fancy boat, but you could see it was alive if you tapped the glass.
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She awakened and thought at first that the noise coming from the basement was an intruder, that someone was down there and might cause her harm. Then she remembered that the furnace had been erratic lately and had made some strange noises. She drifted off…
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okay fine, on the count of three
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I met my grandfather for the first time on his death bed. My grandmother sipped tea from the saucer, making sure not to burn her chapped lips. My aunts and uncles swatted at the flies with their snot-covered handkerchiefs. My father folded his arms on his stomach. My…
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The men were relentless. The blows came to the head two by two, but the animal refused to die. One of them was swinging at the legs and the spine. We could hear the bones snap from across the road.
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Nights like this don’t happen often, nights when I wander the streets of an unknown village, dark and quiet streets that offer little in the way of diversion.
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An enormous flock of maybe mainly papal carrier pigeons
Have left an enormous mess behind
Inside the tower of a church in Sweden
Approximately 2 tons of pigeon poop
From as far back as the era of Chaucer
Are causing the old tower to sway
And
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Remember this. Don’ make me say I tol’ you.
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Cells of memory and corridors of guards . . . I turned over on the cot worrying about my escape. Snores and mumbled dreams, boots on overhead grates . . . I went over the plan again, each step, fixing every tangible detail in mind. I began to sweat when, at last, a warm…
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Glen always had to be the first to fuck his sister, especially before that big galoot from down the street, whom Cheryl really liked to fuck, otherwise Glen would get violent. She had just started having her periods then, I remember. We were all there one
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