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2going 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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3errands 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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3Mother 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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2The 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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1To 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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1was 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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2never 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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3But 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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3flow 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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3and 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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1one 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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2You normally have facial tissues but forgot to buy a pack last time you were at Walgreens. A middle-aged guy asks if you're okay and hands you napkins from Charbucks. "It's clean."
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1cabbages if we're going to do this right," says Big Claw, "but don't worry about supply-chain issues. Your problem is that my boys have your boys surrounded in the woods, Smiley."
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3didn't matter, because the people of Earth generally gave up chairs for wasting away in VR lounges. But the people who chose lying flat over the "Metaverse" created a new society.
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3reminisced about a young dalliance with a certain Elena A. Kropotkina, who was all woman under her tweed and now a consort of Putin. "Well, it's a mystery," said Detective Manatee.
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1moved to Hong Kong and found employment as an influencer for several mainland companies, while also working under-cover for ICAC and as an "exterminator" of people like her husband
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2crutches made from my best friend's bones, not for repentance, but defiance against the church that had misshapen my young soul. But I stopped short of spitting in the holy water
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4by to console me. "At least nobody ever mocked you for chewing the scenery." That nearly made me smile. The Ghost of Thanksgiving past invited me to a carport party at 437 Ventura
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3ceratops (which kept the riff-raff away) and that he was thoroughly conversant with all historical forms of Canasta. He had the orderlies put up colored patio lights in the ER and
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3Silicon Valley sociopaths and conspiracy promoters who knew damn well that the Grand Canyon was carved out by Azra-Chirango space lasers aeons ago, and who were waiting for