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a turd floating in the water with me. Being alone in the room i had to claim it as my own. The cosmos shrugged its shoulders as if to admonish me to keep my shit together. From the
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I guess I know now what I'm going to be serving at the next family funeral. I've got zero experience with lentils. Never eaten let alone cooked with them. A Gatling for peppering
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got up and walloped me with a walleye, I couldn't ignore the truth anymore. Even as a swore at them through the window as I loaded the weapons we'd found: me and that urchin girl.
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The majority who choose refuge in our sister planet in another galaxy would never be seen again by those on their home world. The blight of blindness that came with the planet's
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I couldn't tell where Helga was role playing or where she was being herself. Her giant man hands took my business for a drag around the room. I kept thinking the golden showers was
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That was a mistake. Mother Rusty Nales wasnt a great driver at the best of times, but she'd recently lost her legs in a scrabble accident. With Mother Thereeses Pieces on the pedal
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The pasty Orange 1 looked at the doctor on retainer. "Grinches get finches," he said coldly, sweat glistening on his upper lip. The doctor blanched & signed a blank prescription.
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We kept doing nasty stories about him without saying it was him. Everybody knew it was him. He couldn't say anything because if he admitted they were then he just told on himself.
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How far a jump is it from convincing a nation that one brand of sand is better than another to convincing the same nation that a small hand means them well in spite of everything.
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Jupiter and Uranus. At least my Nebraska family believes me. And my Jupiter family was there so they know it's true. My Texas family are the only ones who don't acknowledge my hero
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Bought loyalty always goes to the highest price. Which makes loyalty lose its luster. More money might make it bright again but then not all that glitters is gold. Raises the price
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cliché within a cliché. The cyborg takes off his mask and he is your mother. Then he says "I told you I would be back" and shoots you with a machine gun.
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The hallways are supposed to be empty if the Orange 1 is likely to use them. He wants the sense of being alone. Like he doesn't have an entourage behind every door to wipe spittle
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Breakfast at the Sump Corporation Executive Dining Room was always a lavish event. You couldn't throw a golden toothpick without landing on some 30,000 thread count fabric. I was a
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Having signed a Non-disclosure agreement I am taking the precaution of announcing that the following act of fiction is in no way about my time with the Dump Corporation. Murder for
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Then there was a long pause, and tension trickled out of the corners of the room. Somebody coughed, and everyone joined. He started speaking again; nobody liked it.
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Then to have the very people who made the queue tell us not to queue in spite of the reason for the queue is still being there. WTH!
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We're not a country of queuers. It makes it hard for us when we suddenly find ourselves in a queue with no warning or explanation. What is happening at the front of the queue? Can
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If you claim a person is upset when they are not yet upset, at those stakes, they might get upset. Just so that you can see the difference between upset and not upset. That ploy is
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In the same way that police keep yelling "Stop resisting" because your head bounced when they threw you to the ground, they now say "calm down" earlier in order to claim agitation.