The New Cigarettes
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Suicide Bridge
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Pen Umbra
Picture it.
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I Got Nothing
I wonder if he set me up so that he could take it out on himself.
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The Appeal To Novelty
When friendships that dissolved used to begin that way.
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From the Eyes of Babes
In his eyes, I saw the world had changed.
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Vergence
Will they make it, and if so, what will their life become?
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Don’t Not Let Covid Make You Notice How Door Knobs Remind You Of Old Door Knobs
The days of thoughtlessly opening doors are on hold.
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Shaved
All cleaned up and nowhere to go.
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But Is It Fiction
A moment that is kept as a reminder of an object.
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Something’s Lost But Something’s Gained
Things don't happen until they do.
+ 6 Replies and 9 Revisions
COVID-19
Not long; must read.
New Year’s Day
Eat, drink and electricity.
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Second Person
Haven’t I seen this somewhere?
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In Search of Things Past
Remembrance of lost time.
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139, 241, 139
And be one lingerer, long I sat.
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The Autumn of Phil
I don’t like it either.
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High Places
You could call it tragic; I could call it whatever I want.
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General Store: In Attendance
What's on your agenda, stays on your agenda.
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General Store
In a world where the internet is a place, there's an everything drawer just for you.
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VW Bug
When the days had no nights, and the nights had no days.
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Barks
Dogs don't bark at buttons.
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The End Is Not Written
Keep on.
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The Lightning
Each generation, its own tools.
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Ode to a Shopping Cart
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At About Sunset
In bat country.
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Face Value
More or less than meets the eye.
+ 1 Reply and 6 Revisions
The Answer Is What You Have to Do
Koan, go on.
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Labyrinthine
I used to call Peter Andrew until Matthew told me no but that's his brother.
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Dear World
It’s fancy for mayo.
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Debtor to the Way
To the sword of Orion.
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Pony Jottings
Something about the ghost in the machine.
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Now For Your Feature Presentation
Whatever they are, I hope you have popcorn.
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4:33
Avant god.
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When Disaster Strikes
The help you deserve to need.
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Life Is Crazy
Dreams do come true.
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Homology
Parents who talk to their friends, or cat; the awkward teenage girl; the good boy.
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Powder
What is that?
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Do You Know What That’s Worth
I wait for you, and you come around.
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Lo and Be Gold
The royal we.
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Who
Play the victor.
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Somerville, New Jersey
Searching for a missed call.
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To Feel
No question about it.
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Condensation
Images, pressed together like literature.
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Project Meltdown
Canary yellow.
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Tolstoy 2020
A simple task.
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Twilight on Equinox
Kicks against the pricks.
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Quoth the Elk
Onward.
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Old Chestnut
Two-thousand teen, dude!
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Mind Map
Causing effect.
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Sunday Miscellany
Proverbs.
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Boomerang
Come along for the ride.
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Vostok 1
Don't press the red button.
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Amy’s
Flip the script on TV dinners.
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The Queendom of No Lies
She who did not make tea.
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Amaranthine
Looking in from the inside.
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Making Your Own Bolo Tie, Part II
Down to business.
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Leftover Egg and Tabasco Breakfast
How about that.
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L.A. Winter
Hollywood chills.
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Absolute Kelvin
Given the right conditions, light will penetrate everything.
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In Kelvin’s Words
The compulsion to repeat the trauma.
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Kelvin
How did you respond to your birth?
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Weston, MA
Predicting goodbye.
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The Saturday Shift
Into unexpected worlds.
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When the Medes Finally Sacked Nineveh
A lot more happened than just this.
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Warp & Warble
Ragbag harmony.
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The Widow
Get the bouillabaisse.
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In Bliss
Must be nice.
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Blessings From Heaven
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Todds
Safe landing.
A Case of Heavy Stout 23
A sword fight on the veranda.
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Garden, Glass and Gun
The silicon forest, after the uprising.
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New Life
Rumination on ruination.
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Don’t Let Tears For Fears Change Your Mind About Mouthwash
Acting on your best behavior.
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What We Talk About When There’s Nothing to Talk About
A slice.
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Strings
Entanglementality.
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Wallegory
Approximately human.
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Case of the Lost Library
Early morning in the wasteland.
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Don’t Sell Your Soul for a Set of Pearly Choppers
Run like hell.
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Derek
Todd's Todd.
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Vignette
and Audio
To Not Get Got
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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The Electrician
A wraithlike outlet.
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Guide Us to That Perfect Light
Star with royal beauty bright.
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Don’t Let Lipps, Inc. Make Your Toothbrush Situation Any Worse
Tad strikes again.
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K
Thank you, grandma.
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American Bogeyman
In someone else's home.
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Free
Literally.
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Hiatus
We will write again.
Dungeon Master
When the master gets played.
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Pro- and Regress and All Things Between
Quantifying the LCD.
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Interlude: On You and I
Our journeys have mysterious destinations of which passenger and driver are deeply aware.
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An Overabundance of Presence
Piazzola and pretzels.
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Hit the Snout
The fools attend her.
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Dear Betty
Don't jump?
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Gang Aft Agley
Everything in its right place.
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The Land of Frito-Lay
Quest for the orange triforce.
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The Fitchburg Union Tribune, International Section, Page 4
Catching you up on world affairs.
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Transposition
Choose your own adventure.
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Making Your Own Bolo Tie, Part 1
Explaining everything.
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Succession
Order of operations.
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!
To exclaim or not to exclaim.
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That’s Not Your Job
Dream deferred.
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The Persimmon Picker
To talk aloud without intending to address another.
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When People Try to Talk to Each Other from Different Rooms, from Different Houses, from Different Planets
Try some baking soda, vinegar, and boiling water?
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Chez Vous
A balancing act.
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Diner Dance
In short order.
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Mr. Rob
Going stale.
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The Prescient Dream
But its power goes against them.
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Singapore Sling
To retreat is to approach.
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Tiger Style
Fruits or flavors.
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Shovelfuls
All that one will hold.
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Air Drum
Outside the ride.
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Mr. Hot Dog’s Ranch-O-Burger
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together.
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Verititis
What do you get when you go from Americorps to Globeair?
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Description of a Comic Scene
The single-panel world.
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Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
The awakening.
Still On the Wagon
Only two of them remained on the train.
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Their Them
In search of lost thyme.
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A Doctor’s Visit
Wait for it.
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Eat!
A fast casual family.
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Dal or Dahl
He was known for his imagination.
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Folding Light, Revived
He had a bad taste in his mouth.
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Mortality
Life on ice.
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Names, Places, People, and Events
Occurrences happen.
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The L
One way ticket.
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The Secret Laboratory of Doctor Disdain
Where there's a will.
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Cut in Parque Bonaval
A place for very little rest.
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River Passage
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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The Fragment!
Missing pieces.
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The Mad Man
The resolution of a minstrel.
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Three People in the Same Place
Location, location, location.
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Grace
Sign of the cross.
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The Photojournalist’s Son
None of these things goes with the others.
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An Evening With Esmarelda
A passing fancy.
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One Small Word
Ride it out as far as it'll go.
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Borne
There was something permanent about the transition.
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My Dearest Doris
Dubois strikes again.
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Time for Leonine
They dive in their skin.
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Target
Some rides feel like a bullseye.
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The Dodge Mahal
Getting to you was a journey across place and time, and a mix of emotions.
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Middling
The hardest thing isn't beginning.
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Such That
We’re all part fantasy and part reality.
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Split Infinity
Shallow thoughts from deep water.
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Brittle
"When I see a building, I think about what it would look like if it fell apart.”
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Octave
You were the only vocalist who didn't feel like singing for me.
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The Trainer
Come on.
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Married Dos Equis Guy
Mother and daughter.
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The Pet Sitter
Upped ante.
+ 0 Replies and 3 Revisions
Your Chinese Boss
You just got back from China.
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Expectations
Tending to self.
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What I Didn’t Tell You
You and I.
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Fatherhood
Share and share alike.
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Personal Fiction
Fiction never personal.
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Done
The every-lawyer.
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Autumn Amber
To strip or not.
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Diminishing Returns
Overeducated and underskilled.
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Strong Children
Multi-media-tasking.
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The Indestructible Man
High adventures await.
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Blue Moon
Life's work.
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The Grateful Live
Life and breath.
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Cockroaches
What's in a title.
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The Order of the Uplifting
Members only.
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The Phoenix
Would a grease and bleach concoction blow us into the sky?
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Monolectic
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance.
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Atomic 32
The atomic age.
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Odds & Sods
Who are you?
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Two of a Kind
Secret shopper.
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Sea River
On a good day.
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Decamp
Startup culture.
+ 0 Replies and 2 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 6
Back in black.
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Receptor Cell
Hungry for science.
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The Maestro
What ever happened to predictability?
+ 2 Replies and 3 Revisions
2.9 M
War of work
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Future Junk
The bell tolls for thee.
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Roy G. Biv
Somewhere under the rainbow.
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Manifest Perfection
Welcome to the rest of your life.
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Refuse
But seriously, folks.
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Something Lifted
I could see it in your eyes.
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Flashlight
In the middle of the day.
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Ultimately
I saw your life flash before your eyes.
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Willful Introspective Self-Discipline
Whiskey Indiana Sierra Delta.
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Blank Verse
To be or not.
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People Were Present
In it.
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Bare Bones
A moment of clarity.
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Impending Doom
Crossing a generational divide.
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
One Percent
To me that was you.
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The Overweight Seal
A tale for children.
+ 8 Replies and 2 Revisions
The Deurbanized Zone
Pussy never felt so good.
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The Unfeathering
Son of a bitch bird.
+ 7 Replies and 2 Revisions
Passing the Bar
Fail miserably.
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
Bubble Gum
Rizzuto's right.
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Street Junk
Down on the corner.
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Morning Jog
Town and country.
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The Empty Room
Really not much to it.
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Knife Fight
Cutting to it.
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Memory
You are what I see.
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Divinity
Omnisciently disengaged.
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Confession
Religious recession.
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Lemon-Lime
Tropical twist.
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The Fear
Coin control.
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
Case of the Dirty Dog
Another day in L.A.
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Narration Unlimited
Backstory to the backstory.
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Eastrich
Of the deskbound.
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Westrich
This happened.
+ 7 Replies and 9 Revisions
Nana’s Bananas
The more, the merrier.
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Sting
A breath of death air.
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A Beautiful Day for a Ballgame
Let's play two!
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Kaleidoscape
Kicks in Quixotica.
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Ghost Chef
Cook and book.
+ 9 Replies and 11 Revisions
Scenes from an Airplane 2
To beam or bemoan.
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Day Six In Home Depot
Here where I'm comfortable.
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Scenes From a Hotel
She who waits.
+ 4 Replies and 9 Revisions
Scenes from an Airplane 1
At first sight.
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The Meaning of Life
Scrawled on a napkin.
+ 3 Replies and 2 Revisions
In the Cwm
In the womb.
+ 2 Replies and 11 Revisions
Something God In the Way
A close one.
+ 2 Replies and 8 Revisions
Those Days Gone By
Alone with her thoughts.
+ 7 Replies and 11 Revisions
That Was a Close One
God in the way.
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How Do You Say Taco in French
Let the French taco come into the world however it wants to.
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Parenthood
Six words.
+ 6 Replies and 2 Revisions
Better
The world on a platter.
+ 14 Replies and 2 Revisions
Beer Not Bombs
Wake the children.
+ 3 Replies and 16 Revisions
Only One Cervantes
Exhuming a poor old giant.
+ 11 Replies and 4 Revisions
En Hommage à Molloy
A record in stone.
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$5K/hr
Had we but world enough, and time.
+ 12 Replies and 5 Revisions
Confessions of an American Beer Drinker
A meandering revolt of meaninglessness.
+ 9 Replies and 9 Revisions
Cherdre
It's in the ether.
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Clean Gun & A Pot Roast Dinner
Case closed.
+ 10 Replies and 11 Revisions
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Fuck it.
+ 2 Replies and 5 Revisions
Johnny Cage
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Character Assassination
A game of chess - or dominoes.
+ 6 Replies and 14 Revisions
Down To The Trench
True loves and false.
+ 3 Replies and 8 Revisions
Warming Up
A frosty afternoon.
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
Whipped & Pickled
A semiotic descent to truth.
+ 11 Replies and 8 Revisions
Merger & Dissolution
An impromptu business meeting on the city street.
+ 23 Replies and 4 Revisions
Up from the OAS
Protest in the Square.
+ 11 Replies and 9 Revisions
Folding Light
A grand opening under Bo-Bo.
+ 7 Replies and 7 Revisions
Breno & Cauê
Try green.
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Eva Ness
Ghost of an oxymoronic plow woman.
+ 30 Replies and 8 Revisions
Perpetual Motion Machine
Desktop gadgetry on a planetary scale.
+ 5 Replies and 2 Revisions
Fisher Man
Mind work at sea.
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Signs & Symbols
New theories on the placement of signs.
+ 7 Replies and 11 Revisions
The Land of Unasked Questions
A world of lost answers.
+ 15 Replies and 14 Revisions
Fallegory
The story of a character in a story.
+ 5 Replies and 3 Revisions
Neither Here Nor There
Bearing witness to moments.
+ 11 Replies and 13 Revisions
Jim Warrior (Rainbow in the Dark)
A legend hath returned.
+ 9 Replies and 20 Revisions
Tired & Faint, But for Crusoe
Sometimes you're better off awake and dreaming.
+ 3 Replies and 7 Revisions
Alexander Christian Centro
The foremost account of an unknown genius of questionable merit.
+ 6 Replies and 12 Revisions
Lost & Found
Unrest in the maze.
+ 24 Replies and 10 Revisions
Ontological Pride
Mr. O gets bested by the old man.
+ 7 Replies and 12 Revisions
A Sense of Speed
Grandpa's hatchback on the morning streets of Taipei.
+ 11 Replies and 11 Revisions
A Series of Lives 5
A tree is felled by the river in Fall River.
+ 9 Replies and 6 Revisions
Poor Man’s Salad
Salt and vinegar in suburbia.
+ 11 Replies and 22 Revisions
Study of the Present
Too much time or not enough?
+ 2 Replies and 8 Revisions
A Copier Story
Mass production on an individual scale.
+ 8 Replies and 13 Revisions
Upon the Spanish Plains
A vignette novella and other absurdities.
+ 6 Replies and 4 Revisions
N2
Artists in search of artists in search of artists.
+ 6 Replies and 10 Revisions
The Plot
Religion and football, as close as you think.
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The Gift of the Magi
A Christmas tale with a twist — with a twist.
+ 9 Replies and 12 Revisions
Tanka 1
Call and response of the seasons.
+ 7 Replies and 6 Revisions
The Answer
Hearing and vision exhausted, if not wasted.
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Dandy
Poll tax.
+ 11 Replies and 12 Revisions
Carr’s Pond
A truce with the mosquitos, nevermore.
+ 5 Replies and 17 Revisions
Duped
That book forsaken, always and everywhere.
+ 4 Replies and 4 Revisions
The Cross
Balls.
+ 7 Replies and 29 Revisions
Making It Last
+ 4 Replies and 6 Revisions
Shreds
+ 4 Replies and 4 Revisions
Catching Up On the Lazenbys
A multinational multigenerational dynasty for the modern age.
+ 12 Replies and 8 Revisions
Perfect Irony
+ 4 Replies and 9 Revisions
Wheeling the Bin on a Snowy Evening
Appreciating a Frosty evening.
+ 6 Replies and 4 Revisions
Underwater Garden
+ 10 Replies and 12 Revisions
In Michigan I Know By Now
Travels with memories making memories again.
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øpęπī
+ 7 Replies and 10 Revisions
The Gunk Machine
+ 9 Replies and 7 Revisions
Autopilot
No ice means no ice.
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
Life Is Art (Act 1)
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Oh, Christ
+ 13 Replies and 1 Revisions
Static
+ 8 Replies and 28 Revisions
Dearest Emily
+ 3 Replies and 5 Revisions
The Text
The age of conspiracy.
+ 16 Replies and 3 Revisions
Speech
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
A Series of Lives 3
+ 4 Replies and 3 Revisions
A Series of Lives 2
+ 4 Replies and 14 Revisions
Spare Parts
+ 10 Replies and 7 Revisions
That Crumby Toaster
+ 28 Replies and 7 Revisions
What Took You So Long
Café mathematics and clown cars.
+ 4 Replies and 12 Revisions
For Tom
+ 8 Replies and 12 Revisions
The Hell Out of Dodge
Tax day in hell.
+ 4 Replies and 26 Revisions
Vignette: 156606400
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
Icebreaker
Score one for the Dolphin.
+ 6 Replies and 6 Revisions
Round Trip
Let there be light where a man should be.
+ 4 Replies and 5 Revisions
Business
+ 4 Replies and 7 Revisions
Tractacus Logico-Leporidae
An examination of the world from nearly ground level.
+ 13 Replies and 11 Revisions
Mutual Cognizance & Glory
+ 7 Replies and 12 Revisions
Pierre!
+ 11 Replies and 4 Revisions
Blackout
+ 10 Replies and 18 Revisions
A Hell of a Swimming Pool
+ 16 Replies and 8 Revisions
Dispatch From the Volcano
+ 6 Replies and 4 Revisions
The Easy Charm of the U.S. Navy
+ 12 Replies and 5 Revisions
Nothing in Four Acts
+ 13 Replies and 4 Revisions
Stendhalismo
+ 4 Replies and 10 Revisions
Attn: Jameson McMurphy
+ 8 Replies and 8 Revisions
Hot News
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Changes Fill My Time, Part 2
+ 16 Replies and 26 Revisions
Space Junk
+ 8 Replies and 15 Revisions
Willow
+ 9 Replies and 2 Revisions
The Dance
+ 9 Replies and 5 Revisions
Coupling
+ 6 Replies and 4 Revisions
Confession of Faith
+ 17 Replies and 2 Revisions
A Series of Lives 1
+ 6 Replies and 5 Revisions
The Dead
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
Bad Anatomy
+ 5 Replies and 4 Revisions
A Good Bad Song, Unfinished
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
Transience 1
+ 5 Replies and 2 Revisions
Tripoli Turquoise (3)
+ 9 Replies and 3 Revisions
Walk, Run, Romp
+ 3 Replies and 2 Revisions
Deductions
+ 4 Replies and 3 Revisions
Charles Parked the Car
+ 5 Replies and 4 Revisions
Total Lunar Eclipse
+ 12 Replies and 10 Revisions
A Patina of Irony (Slight Return)
+ 17 Replies and 7 Revisions
The Chosen One
+ 5 Replies and 4 Revisions
Teddy & Marie
+ 10 Replies and 5 Revisions
Changes Fill My Time, Part 1
+ 13 Replies and 11 Revisions
20 Redux
+ 8 Replies and 3 Revisions
Ghost in the Grove
+ 5 Replies and 3 Revisions
Exceptionism
+ 13 Replies and 6 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 5
+ 4 Replies and 5 Revisions
Household Philosophies
+ 5 Replies and 2 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 4
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
The Lazenby Sketches
+ 21 Replies and 1 Revisions
At the Bottom of the Stairs
At the end of the book.
+ 4 Replies and 10 Revisions
Fifteen Minutes
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
Evolution
+ 8 Replies and 1 Revisions
What We Talk About When We Talk About Parking
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Mixology
+ 5 Replies and 1 Revisions
One Last Swig
+ 4 Replies and 3 Revisions
Words Between Characters
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Candide, Excerpt
+ 14 Replies and 1 Revisions
Tripoli Turquoise (2)
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Informed Opinions
+ 11 Replies and 1 Revisions
Ending Without Beginning
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Terror
+ 5 Replies and 1 Revisions
Thus Spoke the Rooster
+ 6 Replies and 3 Revisions
20
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Rooster Land Wars
+ 8 Replies and 2 Revisions
What On Earth
+ 10 Replies and 1 Revisions
Their Time Up There
+ 6 Replies and 3 Revisions
Enter Title Here
+ 14 Replies and 1 Revisions
Protocol 66
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Conspiracy
+ 6 Replies and 3 Revisions
Don’t Let the Bee Gees Make You Buy a Bad Toothbrush
Capital choice.
+ 14 Replies and 8 Revisions
Notes from Above Ground
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Tripoli Turquoise (1)
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Star-Sized Pac-Man
+ 17 Replies and 3 Revisions
Kind Moon & Salty Rabbit
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Born to Run, Learn to Swim
+ 13 Replies and 1 Revisions
And a Giraffe
+ 13 Replies and 1 Revisions
The Total Carrying Capacity of a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle
+ 9 Replies and 1 Revisions
A Tale of Two Nuts
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Still Life With Everything
+ 22 Replies and 1 Revisions
Brian O’Nolan
+ 26 Replies and 1 Revisions
Saved
+ 12 Replies and 2 Revisions
On Habits & Time
+ 15 Replies and 2 Revisions
The Duel (and a Volcano), Part II
+ 7 Replies and 1 Revisions
New Gozir
+ 7 Replies and 1 Revisions
Interests of the Animate
+ 20 Replies and 4 Revisions
One Man’s Flow
+ 35 Replies and 1 Revisions
Process
+ 10 Replies and 1 Revisions
Library
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Awls Well
The cobbler in Wayland texts you when your shoes are done.
+ 13 Replies and 4 Revisions
Spiritual Competence
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
The Duel (and a Volcano)
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 3
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
Down the Coast
+ 9 Replies and 1 Revisions
Lizard on a Rock
You don't know who I am.
+ 5 Replies and 2 Revisions
The Ocean
Time and again.
+ 36 Replies and 6 Revisions
+ 7 Replies and 1 Revisions
Controlled Frenzy
+ 3 Replies and 2 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 2
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
As If
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
Short Not Small
+ 7 Replies and 1 Revisions
Sandstorm
+ 15 Replies and 1 Revisions
Mandolin Nights
+ 10 Replies and 1 Revisions
Fast Water
+ 4 Replies and 2 Revisions
Attn: Conroy-Fitz Hume
+ 8 Replies and 2 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout 1
+ 10 Replies and 1 Revisions
Still Life of Man with Pen
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Origins
+ 9 Replies and 1 Revisions
A Progressive Attitude On Slumber
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
A Case of Heavy Stout Prelude
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
Ramshackle
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Panama
+ 21 Replies and 1 Revisions
The Pond
+ 3 Replies and 1 Revisions
Ether
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
The House I Grew Up
For real.
+ 4 Replies and 5 Revisions
Vignette
and Audio
Vortextual Digression
+ 6 Replies and 1 Revisions
Supertext
+ 2 Replies and 1 Revisions
Reuben
+ 4 Replies and 1 Revisions
Trains
Twenty-four and there's so much more.
+ 4 Replies and 10 Revisions
Wealth Transfer
If.
+ 6 Replies and 2 Revisions
Time Loop
Keep going.
+ 6 Replies and 5 Revisions
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From punctuation to intellectual property.
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