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Tristan awoke to the muffled barking of the Town Cryer with the latest news. He opened the window to hear better while he pissed in the slopjar. "Bodies of Romeo & Juliet found at
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Oh to be simple once again. To enjoy the joy itself. Instead of parsing what it means. How it is different than before? Is it hiding a threat? Does it make my jowls look fat? Many
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I dabble in gender once. I called it my Tiresias Period. Not to be confused with the periods I endured while a woman. Why do the best things have the highest costs? Tertiary male,
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You know, how the drive through wildlife park "ranger" might point to an arthritic tiger & tell you that it used be the pet of some rich guy's mistress & you know exactly who it is
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I may be crazy but that doesn't mean that I don't have a brain. I have one. I don't know where I picked it up at or who's brain it was: both as possession & as living flesh in head
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Tabitha was going to respond "I can't guarantee there will be any later". She paused though. Experience told her she had just stepped into a quagmire. A Reading Things Into It one.
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"I just got out of the pen. I remembered we had unfinished business," Smokey said while sitting on jojo's pillow. Jojo jumped back. "You didn't pay me for your cough medicine. $3."
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I couldn't believe. I tried twice. A 3rd time with both hands. Look Mom, BOTH hands! I just couldn't believe it. If I had wanted to believe it, I was fundamentally unable to believ
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Nefarious Nescience was waiting at the public library to print out a ghost gun. He had to make an appointment to pick it up from the Head Librarian, Marion Waynes-John. Nefarious
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That wasn't an argument with the multiverses. I love the multiverses as much as I know the multiverses hate me. But that is neither here nor there since neither is safe ground for
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Beyond that is the real kicker. That I'm still an individual & carnate! When do I get to ascend? Can at least evolve into homo futique? Ah, now I see your ploy for what it is. You
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There is something visceral about eating an overripe mango over a firepit you made from flotsam & jetsam. Something innately homo sapiens. Disappointing as well, as I remain human.
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"Here, I have some putty to plug that hole in your heart," she said, "It's made of love. You want it?" But when I looked into her black plum eyes I couldn't recognize her for the
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Noodles the aardvark’s bestest friend in the small narrow world was a feral cat named Pig. Pig had been a house cat from Poughkeepsie. Noodles and Pig were always up to something.
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Few people remember that Tomasina Barrows was hung for a piece of bread that she stole to feed her starving kids. She swung and they starved anyway. Jean Valjean got 19 years for
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Pyrrh the cat, I just learned is an Eliot scholar. It is refreshing to hear the feline perspective on the Wasteland, Practical cats, murders in cathedrals. His view of Prufrock and
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I wrote to my counterpart over at FoldingNarrative, Lady Viscosity. I accused her of lacking vision. She had written me at the same time. She accuses me of lacking substance.
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Even as I was being forced to same them it was always my choice to say them. Even as the words I say destroy civilizations, if I said it I chose to say it. There is no utterance di
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The first lie was that it was an open secret. It was both a lie and an open secret. The second lie was that the first lie itself was a lie about it being a lie. Big lie magic in a
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Tactical PsyOps called for each ship to have Broken Arrow Scenario training. That it was a Strategic PsyOps program was only known to top echelons. The project was vindicated when