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Look upon Despair, ye ignoble, and Work!

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candy lily from July
being there: 100

[Fore] the alarm screams into my harried dreams, creeping into the scenes at the seams like light splashing around the brilliant lining of a...
circumeloquacious triangulation

they thought he talked funny because he always tried to communicate exactly what he meant
chuang tsu's exemplary cook

I have a friend and mentor whom I met through the auspices of a conventional professor-student relationship brokered by an educational insti...
The Loose Screw

nce there was a Screw. It didn't know that it was a Screw or that it was Once. Yet. First, when the Machine ran, all the part...
A Spy on the Street Where You Live, pt. 2

And there’s Lerner and Lowe’s Fair Lady, herself also a figment from Ovid as Pygmalion’s Galatea, but, back then, she didn’t have a street, ...
three more voicemail haiku, for male voice

o! magic 8 ball, connect me to deadpan gulch 5502 this connection is cloudy, indistinct; you should call again later . . . all signs point t...
the Great Fu

I n ancient China a giant, sacred, though rarely seen bird, the Great Fu, was considered harbinger of grace, companion of the se...