Finished Folds (5781—5800)
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1between my teeth because I had lost my teeth along the way. Closer, closer...almost there. I heaved my 398 pound mound of flesh over the precipice, the drumbeats now behind me as
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4Jean's choir robe had snagged on the corner of the pew, causing her to stumble between amens. "Jesus Christ!" She'd said it out loud, then noted Father Fister's disapproval.
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4, well, even joy because (after all), I love buttercream icing and I blew out all of the candles in one breath. Never mind that the weekend was slightly marred by the behavior of
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3We've got miles to go before we sleep. "Miles to go before we sleep?" she asked frostily. "I thought I saw two roads up there, though. See the yellow woods?" I know these woods
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2make a difference in his riffs? Maybe. Still (as usual) he couldn't get no satisfaction. "I'll take chocolate chip," he replied to Simmons. "And don't breathe on it. I haven't
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4"Now, now," his grandmother admonished. "You must refrain from such talk." Nana took the knife from his hand and replaced it with a ladle, leading him from his dark closet into t
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1and he knew without at doubt that this would be the biggest, best snowcone he'd ever lick. One lone howler monkey ski bunny glided by him, unaware of history about to be made. He
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3thwarted his ability to articulate long words until he could only utter short grunts. Ugggh. Ooomph. Rheep. His mind, however, was another story. Laura flung the guide into a
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4and peered under. Yep, it was them again, seeking (no doubt) the Gouda he had hidden in the bottom drawer of the fridge. Dammit! He'd been so careful! Silently he arose and tip
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3a kitten, soft and prone to tangling. Oh yes, she tickled my fancy alright, especially when she poured the syrup into my coffee and stirred creamer into my short stack. Just then
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6by the innocuous Italian sausage that lay there. From that moment on and for the rest of her life, people she'd meet would look at that scar and wonder, for the scar resembled a
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1I struggled, then executed the most human reaction I could muster: I kissed her lightly on her blue-grey lips. Nothing. No reaction. Turning, ambling away, I disappeared 4ever.
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3Snatching a handful of cockroaches and stuffing them into my mouth, I remembered too late that I had forgotten to bring my dental floss. Will she be turned off by the site of the
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2and crinker. Crinker? His mind, distorted at the sight of the brown shorts, interrupted rational thought. Noel shook his head as he did his best to pull his gaze from the UPS m
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4"I find you appeeling," giggled the apple, "and would like you to cross-pollinate with me...right now!" The banana turned from green to a bright orange as he swung over to the
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5What was that...smell? Bubba wrinkled his nose and scratched his head, trying to match memory with the distinctive odor which suddenly permeated the closet. Mom? Is that you?
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2He awoke from his reverie in horror, and looked down and around, just to make sure he hadn't really smacked her. When he looked up again, there she was, smiling at him as if she h
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4seems." He chuckled as he flicked a gob of Brill Creme off of his shoulder. Antoine's spirit sagged lower than his eighty-year-old father's jowls. "What now," he wondered, as he
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4When Robert noticed Bertha had cut his favorite plaid flannel shirt into pieces to complete her masterpiece, however, he said not a word, but crept slowly behind "The Queen" and
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3squinted to make her smaller, but in doing so lost his balance and tumbled headlong into the bubbling vat. "Nooooooo!" he whispered as Sarah disappeared ahead of him