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Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them ...more

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have ...more

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

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I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

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He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your o...more

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In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning;

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from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anythi...more

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That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.

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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

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Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins.

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The Chorus Line:A Rope-Jumping Rhymewe are the maidsthe ones you killedthe ones you failedwe danced in airour bare feet twitchedit was not fairwith ev...more