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I have 292 stories published in
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My stories have been read 385756 times
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Joe
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Anemones are coy
The night after I had been dreaming of tropical fish in eighties corporate fishtanks, I woke up with my skull as tight as a buoy. I spent the day bobbing between bed and toilet bowl, throwing up with tidal regularity.
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Aurora Borealis, explained
Because of gravity’s appetite for physical affection and because solar wind is incomprehensible to the human mind and because each time a particle dies
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Jellyfish gurgle through the watercooler
A villanelle
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My brain would empty the discos
National Anthems become rehearsed mass apologies, mannered admissions of weakness, eighty-thousand stutter and humbly scratch their wrists. Football songs are scoured of hyperbole: "We are... one of the better teams in the bottom half of division one in this the 2005-6 season ... that the world has ever seen.
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Neg
I saw you at that gig the other day and you seemed to be enjoying self which is a big give away. Those who really enjoy themselves have faces like bowls of fruit.
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