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In Short on March 15, 2012 at 12:10 pm

I sang about Ruffa, the beautiful girl who fell ill after her boyfriend betrayed her.

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In Short on March 14, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Once I asked them:  Do you ever wish you could eat Vietnamese food with the taste buds of an infant?

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In Short on March 13, 2012 at 3:50 pm

Alone in the house, I’d put the forks and spoons in the icebox the school let Daddy have when they got a new one.

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In Short on March 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm

He’s your girlfriend’s brother, which is how you got him the job with animal control in the first place.

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In Short on March 8, 2012 at 12:10 pm

A second fox skinned will not suffice for love.

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In Short on March 7, 2012 at 3:00 pm

– he must have thought, before we heard the knock of the extra knot, I was the one choking.

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In Short on March 6, 2012 at 12:10 pm

I quickly pulled at a handful of butterbeans, tried to avoid seeing what she could see.

…why was G

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In Short on March 2, 2012 at 12:10 pm

He asked his six-year-old what’s funny, and the kid said ladies’ underwear.

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In Short on March 1, 2012 at 12:10 pm

“I made a mistake,” the man said. “This bus isn’t going to the Grand Canyon. It’s going across the country.” I got on anyway.

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In Short on February 28, 2012 at 2:40 pm

She should be able to give a simple and direct answer back.  Would you fuck for power? 

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In Short on February 27, 2012 at 1:20 pm

He wrote the word news down on a napkin and messed around with the letters until he’d made the word sewn, and then said that in the end it was just about stitching people up.

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In Short on February 24, 2012 at 12:10 pm

My dad goes, “I’ve always known that I will spontaneously combust,” and he explains to me what that means, that sometimes people just, for no reason, no warning, burst into flames.

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In Short on February 23, 2012 at 12:10 pm

There are these worms that live in icebergs. They just melt when you take them out of the ice.

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In Short on February 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm

It was the kind of song you hear the heroine singing when she’s in trouble on a mountaintop.

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In Short on February 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm

I eventually became a bruised canvas torn to shreds by its artist.

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