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Guy Cramer's avatar

It was a nice day for a picnic. You brought pie, I brought a shovel.

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Meg Pokrass's avatar

Guy Cramer. Hi again. I've added yours to the list. I love it. Please let me know if you'd like to add a title.

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Roopa Raveendra's avatar

I looked into her mind and picked her secrets like bugs until we became one.

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Mileva Anastasiadou's avatar

Life is the Perfect Drug

On evil highways, the dream of love awakens us, then puts us back to sleep.

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Sherri Alms's avatar

He ordered his usual. She set the coffee down, threw the pie in his face.

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Terry Brennan's avatar

I arrive at the party plain Catherine, leave knowing I will be the Log Lady.

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Pamela Pescosolido's avatar

The dwarf covers his eyes, peeking through fingers, glimpses of pie and friendship lost anew.

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Federico's avatar

I hand him a phone and tell him to call me

I answer, somewhere else. No sense: art. Experience first, meaning second. I never hung up.

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

The Drummer from Devo Confronts David Lynch in Heaven

Are we not men? he asks.

I am not an animal. I am a man.

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Julia Travers's avatar

Like this?

(spreading blueberry pie filling over his eyelids)

Can't see where I'm going.

Perfect.

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Andy N (New Account)'s avatar

The door creaks slowly open.

She spills her coffee.

Blue Velvet is on the radio.

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Karen Walker's avatar

Title: The Sequel

Waiting at heavenly gates, Laura Palmer waves. He enters, bows, and hands her a script.

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Colin Weston's avatar

Am I dreaming? I swear I just saw David Bowie walk into that police station…

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תמרה's avatar

Dorothy’s Oz Sequel: A heavy-metal tornado of a desperate, dark love story. Sailor dwarfed Elvis. (15 words!!!)

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Tiffany Harris's avatar

She saw him at Winkie's—pie, shadow, and dwarf—erasing her, piece by disappearing piece.

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Angela Fantabula's avatar

"The Threat of Fatherhood"

Her spread legs. What monsters will escape them in a rush of blood and tissue?

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Gerard DiLeo's avatar

I was meeting her father...who knew. But he wanted to hear it from me.

[ERASERHEAD]

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