Finished Folds (1841—1860)
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6of drawers that sketch out our paths through life." She winked as if we were on the same wavelength. She added, baroquely, "Sometimes we just need to get our ducks in
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6pumpkins would finally have their revenge this year. They would see who would make a pie of whom. They bided their time among the other pumpkins in the
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4of course Eisenstein didn't come to mind when the doctor suggested that perhaps the man in the wheelchair might try using the stairs once in a while instead of the elevator. Mrs.
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3ridge Ms. Piggy served Kermit every night in between sets on the Soloflex. "These arms and legs will never be shapely, and I'm cool with that," thought Kermit in his office, late
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0McPherson wondered if Canadian Zen would ever catch on. Hockey pucks and watercolors -- nothing else. Sadly, Zen had become embellished with temples and liturgies. Crouton
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4came swaggering forth in their ermine and white leather trenchcoats, taking position under the feeble shafts of light. I expected a dance number, but they issued a manifesto:
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4moment of the unseen train's approach, the surging vibrations in the tunnel, the increasing density of doom. My companions began to panic and shout, but
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6lbarrow powered by a high-octane blend of arrogance and spite. As Cheney's intrepid gaze swept over DC, lawns were scorched, heads exploded and monuments to lesser men
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6a little bristly on the face, which would provide better traction for the necessary guru-slap. I could hardly sleep the night before, but would soon be free of the albatross of my
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5of endurance strategies I deploy against the crushing ordinariness of daily life. Some of them I cribbed from behind the damask wallpaper of a house I visit in my dreams, where
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6they wanted, the planet becomes glutted with clutter, fast. The means of production had exceeded the means of consumption. Some signed up to become GMO landfill munchers, but
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4Phazon from the Mad Sea Cows of Untranquility savored the echoes of his chuckles. "Murder in the Martian Catacombs ... " He nearly shrieked again. Upon the obsidian tiles lay
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4a trilobyte who had agreed to serve me. Then it clicked: "Don't put your stinky foot on your friend's face". I did eventually regret that, for whatever regret is worth. *Sigh*
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1I was in no state to consider molecular structures or malleability -- but Gumby came to guide me on my trip. "Consider the fridge magnets" he suggested, as mushroom people
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4He was so appreciative that she almost felt a pang of pity -- but only for a moment. She put her knee in his back and pulled the cords, but his nose-hair clippers saved the day.
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6Toby Chatterton was actually more the silent type. His head was full of music, but he never felt compelled to bother people with it. He was cool like that. Synchronicities would
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4Peanut M&Ms. "To hell with this -- let's fold!" said Slim. "I haven't hit rock bottom yet. Might have bounced off a few cliffs, but
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4Jake Whistler of WeatherTV kind of liked it when the wind caught him during a storm report and blew him 50 miles up the coast. He landed on one of his favorite restaurants,
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5we roll up the tremulous little fictions of the world with some cornsilk and a sprinkling of sage, and smoke it to the very hell that it deserves. You dig?" But ThisChick
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5balsa wood anymore, but the exotic woods of the 16 wizards' concealed wands revealed more vanity than know-how. Wizard 17 arrived wandless and sat at the oaken table