Finished Folds (21—40)
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2peppered the line where my signature had been. "You are released from the Dead," he said, and the world around me seemed to drop as I rose. Suddenly I was back at my job at a 7-11
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3That's how it usually begins. No-one really knows what love is, I suppose. Maybe it's one of those things you only realize once you have the perspective of the deceased? Forever is
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4also dancing, and picking his teeth with a matchstick. Behind the possum she could just make out her parents by the light of the house fire. They too were dancing, and drinking
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3her purse, which she had carelessly left on one of the many nightstands surrounding the action. Her driver's license identified her as Amber LaGrue, but the photo didn't look like
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1the Listerine testing team had ceased, letting him know that it was quitting time, and the fresh-breathed employees would saunter out to the parking lot, unaware of his evil plan
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4Joyce Jenkins, who claimed to be Oscar Wilde's lover (doubtful!) but who really just took out the trash from his apartment and assembled stories from his reject ideas. She had won
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4One singular sensation! Operators are waiting! If you are one of the first 471 people to call, we'll slash the price down to $1,999! That's right, the mongoose, the playwright, and
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1And what the heck is a "barber hat", anyway? Just then, Aubrey the drunken barber appeared, hat in hand. "Please ignore that crow," he said to her, "Alls I want is to ask you to
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1it fell off in his hand. "NOOOOO!" he cried, in perfect pitch with the "Bismillah! No, we will not let you go" part. He ran the seventeen miles to his nearest Apple Store and
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1and go see a therapist for anger management. "So you go ballistic every time you are transferred to voicemail," said Dr. Goodfeel, "That is actually quite normal." "But I break
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3"You no read the pornogeography in my cafe!" he snapped, and with that, he grabbed Maria by the collar and dragged her outside. The woman in the bobble hat was next. He locked the
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2to draw out money from his college fund so that Mommy could pull the handle again. They were down to her last $20 when suddenly she hit the jackpot, had a heart attack, and died.
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3"Another uneventful Christmas," he sighed to his parakeet Maybelline, who had been averting her avian eyes from the nakedness and mayhem. He put on undies and rolled the agents to
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3, ages, and eons. " I know not how the contraption is employed," said the CIA agent, "but I could tell by your garb that thou might be in possession of a clue." I shrugged and spun
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2heard the applause and emerged from the cockpit to watch the enchanting inebriated baboon, and even bought everyone aboard a tiny bottle of whiskey. As the plane ascended rapidly,
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2continue the story that was in his head when it was 1) my turn to fold, 2) I was not a mind-reader, and 3) that would destroy the whole idea of the exquisite corpse? So I turned it
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4asked, hoping to distract Hermes from his harpies. She turned away from him when he refused, but could hear their wings and bosoms flapping wildly around the temple. Her headache
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1I've had her for a while now, and I must say that the sixteen-legged model is eight times what the two-legged kind are. Eight times as demanding. Eight times as vain. But when it
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4like an orphan I feel, having been wretchedly abandoned and thrown to the magazine salesman? Sad and alone, I let him in. He and I raided the fridge and watched TV until we heard
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3smoking two cigars at once. "Some people have no cigars at all!" I huffed at him, as I disappeared into a cloud of sweet smoke. That was the day I became Cigar Man, upholder of