334 4 4
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Dad says grandma is a cunt and it's probably true
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93000
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Ships tumble, cars crash, horns gulp water, bombs burst up from the ground in a halo of screams.
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113662
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The night is a jelly slosh, a fertile rumble, a rhumba, black and seeping, thick. An arm rises.
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9796
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Once, you were found, and now you are lost.
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19500
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Carlos gripped the wooden handle of the shovel he was leaning on as he tiredly gazed west. He looked at the jagged blue mountains that climbed desperately towards the sun. It looked as though the sun was trying to kiss the peak of those…
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1981813
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Jackie got sexual satisfaction from form rejection letters.
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1710
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I began to suspect I was living in an art film as I stood in line at the DMV.
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1601511
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I was overly dramatic, that was my problem. Her parents, I'd have to shoot them.Point blank range.It was colder at the top of the water tower than I would have guessed from the ground. The wind was different up there. I liked it though. I've always felt better suited for…
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9433
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There is a small resort village on the northwest Pacific shoreline of Costa Rica, within the province of Guanacaste, near a town called Tamarindo. It is arguably the most beautiful of the Esmeralda beaches. Below Playa Hermosa, even further down than Playa Flamingo,…
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5200
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When Roger opened the closet door, several guns fell forward at his feet. Most of them were rifles, weapons his stepfather had collected over three wars. Wooden bolt-action carbines, with worn leather shoulder straps, of this caliber and of that caliber. Both…
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4900
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Around and down the curved slope of slippery embankment walked the young black male deer, lifting only one leg from each side, front-to-back then back-to-front, leaning to-and-aft, diagonally digging the heels of his alternate hooves into the quick caramel mud. …
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82400
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Would you take a job living in a computer? What if you had to?
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6510
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“Now let's just start again, real slowly, and from the very beginning,” the taller darker investigator leaned across the desk and spoke directly to the young male bank teller, face-to-face, “you say that she was attractive then — this,…
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4610
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Peter had recently cracked his tooth chewing ice. It was the top left molar, not the far back one, but the one just in front of that. His dental insurance covered most of the extraction but none of the implant. An artificial tooth was considered cosmetic, and they…
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3500
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“Got a light?” He startled me. I hadn't seen him sitting there in the dark. “Get off my truck.” I closed my fist around the keys and stuffed them back into my pocket. I'd never seen this bum before. I remember thinking how small he…
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