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The blue Victorian at 1145 White Street shifts in its foundation, creaks, and settles in for the night. The girls are bundled into their beds. My wife, too, has gone to sleep. I’m alone in the kitchen, steeping chamomile tea, coughing phlegm into the wr
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Living lower on the hog than anticipated
lower on the hog than previously expected
lower on the hog than desired
Living on the underside of the hog belly
pretty much bouncing on the ground
beneath the aforementioned hog belly
Living clos
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And so it begins, like this, waiting to long for a lazy train out of West Toledo...
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. . . at midnight three zombies and a vampire gather for a game of Texas hold ’em.
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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Tom flipped his legs over the side of the boat, put on his fins. His friend, Jason, checked the spear gun. “Good to go,” Jason said. “You good?” Tom was an experienced free diver and hunter. “No problem. Let's get…
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This is what happened today.
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I let the little fingers slip thinking they couldn't stand to hold on anymore. When they were done they said addled and I was left behind in the room with only my hand. I hurt myself trying to picture the pretty girls and they took out a piece above my eye. …
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She can’t let it go. She loved him so much.
She wondered if he was still alive, even after he rejected her completely and threw her love away. Still I got a message asking if I had heard from him, if I knew anything, or whether he was still even ali
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And so H.T. Thomas VII left the ranch to his younger brothers, took his inheritance in letters of credit, began as a wildcatter, plunging pipes into Texas pink granite like straws into chocolate milk shakes.
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That monk stopped the Ferris wheel with his mind, I swear.
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The young girl has given up, and lies sprawled out
upon the yellow cover on the bed, with her blue sarong
wrapped loosely around her body. One arm lay
back up above her head, where it was thrown
during the exertion of birth. Her yellow halo
surr
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There’s only one thing to say when 217 clones of yourself are walking the earth, wreaking havoc, conspiring to install a global oligarchy despite how many lives are ruined and innocents killed: I’m sorry.
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"She said she wanted to move from point A to point B, that she needed help getting there. I told her I’d do what I could (despite my condition)."
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He would lean on his window sill in the evening and watch the whores. They wore gaudy clothes and too much makeup.
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