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A Terrible Movie
In the movie the woman leaves the man because he will not let her sit on his face anymore and she cannot fathom why that would be, sex was the last good…
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The Mail
They arrive just after the mail slides into my basement.
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Mint
I always knew mint was the enemy.
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Quillbot's Tomatoes
My daughter runs to the garden for her tomatoes.
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A High Adjective Diet
The general store in my town has two sliding doors.
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The Price of Gas
I set the price of gas.
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The Rain, That Drummer
The rain, that drummer, I tried to hear between the taps.
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Behind My House
Behind my house growing up lived an old man in a doublewide.
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Accessing Art
Hi, no fiction this week but instead an obvious thing I should have done years ago: put my drawings onto t-shirts, hoodies and paraphernalia.
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Hounded by White Hawks
The mules were drooling, the sign, the driver said, we approached the summit.
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Along the Plantain Carts
You gave up.
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All The Round Keys
I said that word to my brother’s analyst, multimodal, and she thought I was reciting marketing jargon for big computers, the kinds that think with…
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