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Derek's story
A night patrol goes wrong, horribly wrong
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Burnt salty pumpkin seeds
The press of the binder sends cold into me. By an egg timer, the electricity comes back on. The shadows see me. I'm in the afterthrows - the...
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A tinman quote
"Be a dear and pass me my tin foil, Elsie. More than anything, I'd sincerely like to be the tinman I ought to be. I want to be chivalrous and shiny...
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- 1094 reads
Last place (18.4:Last Place)
"Words are the things that hurt, Ryan." the knock comes and I grab the nearest thing and quietly run as fast as I can to the underground away from my...
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King Candle
Melting, with a candelabra cutting me and growing out of my weaker thigh and I let out a gasp: "How did that lovely treat get there?" and however...
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Religion
The man waited for some sort of verification, some acknowledgment. For hours, he stood pleading to the cross for a sign. "Move me, delude me, provide...
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Pulling
I'm not sad. I am spreading a tree and its contents over my cold legs, trunk, and face looking for where the holes are. I am a set of Christmas...
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Findings: Flint Readings
This displaces everything: my bluish hypothermic hold. He offered me licorice, he has plenty. A kind hey, a touch of the lips, truth or dare yielding...
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The tree
"cause I saw it on tv //they were selling pieces of heaven// and I thought hey how about me// when can I make reservations?" - Sarah Slean I am a...
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Of the force that seems to be undenied
I shudder to think that solid exits from barren existences can be be boarded up without decisive thought as to how they were effecting those that...
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- 1142 reads