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"Have you considered a Spritz of Dissolution?" asked my presumably former roommate, whom I thought I had kicked out of our apartment for being a Prince of Non-Payment of the Rent. -
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"A polite person would say, 'please eat' or maybe something more elaborate and softer, instead of making such a demand," he said. "But couldn't I ask the same of you?" He felt
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"You know damn well I did, you pudgy, grizzly, incompetent doofus whose insufferable presence I have endured for many years," said the bosun. "But let's all go home, Captain."
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there were emergency medical personnel all around our favorite table, where Blasted Heath lay twitching and frothing. "He's fallen hard for Tseng Jing-Hua," said Ms. Williams
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she cued up some ebooks re: "doing without thinking" balanced with others re: "thinking without doing" and after a brief survey concluded they were all written by glib ninnies who
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going back to sleep (and did). Luckily, Abercrombie Cthulhu agreed to the deal, knowing full well that a moment later he would destroy all of humanity with his abs.
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errands for their Clown Mothers, whom no one ever saw but everyone feared. "There are layers and layers to creepy-clown society," my late friend Joseph informed me in 3rd grade.
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"Get out of my dreams" said James, "or I will send you on assignments that will involve impossible deadlines and rides on very scary elevators!" The intruder tried to explain
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Mother Hubbard was an inconsiderate old buzzard. Had she no concern for Mother Goose and whatever geese might have had their down forcefully sourced for the bed shop above?!!!
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The caged bird got back on its feet and looked at me with a serious and slightly mournful gaze. "Let me out and I'll teach you how to sort and fold socks. Not that you look like a
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To my utter chagrin, notorious "influencer" Patio Light was seated next to me, had her stick-cam out, and tried to include me in her promo of a much better concealer. The orchestra
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landlord raised the rent, and she countered by posting manifestos throughout the building and up and down the street. The landlord called the cops, and she raised a Twitter Storm.
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was how I had always tuned my guitar. I didn't understand why the crowd was leaving in such a huff. And then the mixing guy had the nerve to mute my guitar and my mic! I stood
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never realized how foxy I might be. Looking at my evil twin's face as we leveled our blasters at each other, I felt desire overcome hatred in my heart. Then he blasted me
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But with gas prices still artificially inflated he only made it as far as Crossroads, Nevada. A beggar asked if he could spare some change. Who even carries change?
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flow out of the third bottle, where it had been patiently waiting. "First, you should probably cook the raw octopus, but only with its consent. They are quite intelligent. Second,
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and the bear found himself in the grips of two police sergeants as well as a mental fugue. "There will be no tortoise-kicking on my watch," Detective Manatee informed the bear, but
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one of his young knights, dressed only in his under-armor, begged the King's leave to tend to his young knee, which he had scraped. Plus it was Prince Gavril's top sleepover buddy,
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and I don't know the way back. The air smells like every imaginable disease. The buildings and people are scruffy. "Do you know where you are?" asked a man in a wheelchair with a
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and who could I call to have some eats delivered? I kept flipping channels. Now the toll was up to 7.5 billion. Some stations had AI newscasters reporting the stats. If only