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"...Call something medicinal, people just don't care. Call it holy, miraculous... give 'em some scripture? They want it. Hell, I want it. Want some right now. Don't you?”
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Charlene remained flat on the ground, sandwiched between the outside wall of the Kansas Children's and a gigantic holly bush. She did her best to ignore the thorny leaves scratching at the back of her face and legs.
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Leaning on a dumpster, Ray checked the address again on his notepad. He was unfamiliar with this part of town. The streetlights seemed dimmer here and were planted few and far between. Great expanses of static black stretched between these lonely beacons…
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"Flie, fliee!" The children around the tiny table shrieked with laughter. The attendant in charge of good-conduct immediately hushed them all back to their coloring books -- seeing no more than what she wanted from that table on a Monday morning.The newest…
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Now it seems we have lost something. It's not the keys to the car or the remote control ..."Maybe tomorrow then," she said softly, running a wistful finger, drawing circles, over the smooth plastic of her tiny purse--but her parents were standing by the car wondering…
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"Oh why do you have to be such a damn lovable Punkinhead?" she said. "Thanks so much. But, you see? I could never have sex with you. It would be... just morally wrong! Like strapping a rod on a teddy-bear.
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She sees Connick Jr. now has a microphone. He is singing “All of Me” as if he meant her to take all of him.
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A pig weighing nearly 300 pounds was discovered in the back of a wrecked car in Youngstown, Ohio. The car, a Nissan Cube, was totaled, but Penelope the pig was unscathed.
The car, which belongs to Wendy Thrasher, Penelope's owner, was apparently stolen
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Suicide was on his bucket list. Redeeming a lost soul was on hers. If not for the train drivers' strike they might have met.
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I sneak glances of her unhooking the clasp, taking it off, so that her back is bare, and I can see the muscles, the bones underneath move as she puts the new one on...
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He boarded the wrong plane. (Hey, it could happen. Maybe not after 9/11, but certainly before)
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Sometimes when I fall I see a Kafkaesque landscape, or ...
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At night, I wake up, and Daddy's in the bathroom with a hanger in his mouth....
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[JESUS LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANYBODY, BUT HE'S DEAD. NO-ONE COULD EVER LOVE YOU AS MUCH, OR YOU THEM, SO DON'T EVEN TRY. HAVE A NICE LIFE! MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!]
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The cell phone rang in his pants pocket on the floor beside the bed. He reached inside the pocket and answered, even as he was hip deep inside his wife. It was Jim, their electrician. “I was wondering if I could swing by and pick up those ballasts and the
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