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They were sunset days, languid days, firefly days, monotonous days, porch-light days, haunted days, sweat-soaked days, tortuous days, dry-thunder days, mosquito days, days that stunk of pot smoke and stale beer, days butchered and dissected, days stretching asymptotically towards forever. We swam inside the warm guts of
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Alive again. I reach out through machine amnii, vomiting up dark clouds that billow and stain my face. My palm strikes something that resists, then yields, then splits, and finally I tear myself out, dragging myself limb-over-limb across the scaly floor. The spent surgeonmites flop like dying fish
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3 BED, 2 BATH IN LITTLE RHODESIA, MARIE BYRD LAND- Ideal single-family home in charming new settlement in rapidly expanding frontier. Elegant plantation style design recalls heights of American greatness. Settlement amenities include shopping mall, sports stadium, temperature-insulated golf course, and round-the-clock monitoring from contracted PMC.
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You’re feeling lonely so it’s time to go on a date. You open up an app and slap your intake bag a couple of times until the IV gets going again. The algorithm has already selected five potential matches for you. It wasn’t perfect at first (too
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I decided to go to Australia; it was that or suicide. I bought a plane ticket and packed my things. Halfway through packing I decided to clean my apartment. At the end it looked as spotless and bare as a monk’s cell. I thought if I was going to
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You are a writer of critically-acclaimed novels no one has read. You have spent the past month driving across America, reading excerpts to handfuls of onlookers in bookstore back rooms and echoing college auditoriums. You spent your twenties doing exotic and expensive drugs and you’ve spent your thirties