Finished Folds (181—200)
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5for fear of falling in love. The law of drama states that the more a person professes they can't stand drama, the more they interject themselves into it. Therefore, Fred & elephant
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4"Isn't it beautiful?" She said. "Great tattoo, Susan." I cleared my throat, weighing whether to tell her. She continued to beam. "You know, though, that in Mandarin it really means
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3becoming difficult to stomach. Whose words would inspire the literal dozens of disinterested passersby, as mine had for a millenia? A light winked out of the sky tonight.
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0street lamp and strolled the empty, wet streets, puffing his cheeks against the warm Caribbean breeze. Any minute now, the British Expeditionary Force would be
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1intercepted a phone conversation between Edward Snowden and Fox Mulder, and the juicy details lead the shadow government to the drop zone for the e-waste statute, which they dubbed
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4make waste of our collective bedsheets, rendering the world a minor fraction more of discomfort in the night as guilt pounded within on our heads. The Shamemaker beeped and booped
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3locals described with derision as fuzzbumps. If the earless were able to clearly communicate, they'd refer the cliche townspeople to the story of the Star-Bellied Sneetches, who
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4Charlie Brown's teacher would not relent. Her muffled horn voice permeated his consciousness. Violent visions gripped him, as if implanted by an external force, willing him to
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2and a plethora of hugs, but the newlyweds' happy circumstance failed to move me to words. They'd write songs of me, I decided. Silent Scorn was my name AND my game.
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5, Delta Tau Chi. The various nerds and rejects, in their zombie form, rushed towards our heroes, who froze in terror, just like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
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3it wasn't even National Dairy Theft Day. The bicalcitrated heifers refused to provide milk, and ran to away to the udder side, in another udderly devastating display of mooving
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0sync with nothing. She was the collective dream of little girls and science peeps, dashed.
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5giving really long names to chemical compounds and expecting non-native speakers to understand you when discussing the finer points of brain bashing and the science of
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4We made shapes from tape and made to fight the night. At 6AM, the noise was back: its blistering tone awoke us, reminding us of our routines. Why I hadn't thought to keep a hammer
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4, unlike that of others, an Over (the) Counter Dictionary, which allowed him to decipher the medical mumbo-jumbo of shyster therapists. Arnold thumbed the pages, looking for
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2"Litrally boil," the narrator added, in a clipped English accent, as if that would add finality to the narrative. But, here we are, man, doctor and nurse, an unresolved triangle.
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7The sweating contestant suffered through ads for swiffers, lipsticks, luxury cars, and a local news break. The producers approached our hapless hero with notes on
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2trash, which my friend Rob had fallen into many moons ago at a boutique not unlike this one. Earbuds in tight, we rocked like a hurricane through an impoverished Caribbean
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4"Not in public, dear," squeaked the mayor, clearly the S to her M. "The press will have a field day!" But this time, the safe word didn't work. The mayor's trophy wife pressed
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2after the president pardoned his crimes of passion. You know, some people just take it too far with inanimate objects, but in the privacy of our homes, who's to say