Month: December 2023
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TRUE CRIME CASES WE HAVE SOLVED: UNCLE TOBY AND THE NEAR BEARS INCIDENT
No one in the bar, including BEARtender Ralph or the CCTV footage from that night, saw him walk out again.
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‘BUMBLE STUMBLE’ by Mark Blickley
Each rejection stoked my insecurity and I eventually stopped sending out requests to avoid being crushed. But BUMBLE is a different kind of dating app.
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Sorry For Not Creating Reliable Historical Records of Those Alien Visits, You Guys – Newly Discovered Online Oral Accounts of Ancient Astronauts
Thanks to sites like InfoWars, 4Chan, and numerous subreddits, we now have indisputable proof that beings from the other side of the universe have been the unseen hand guiding the advancement of our species.
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And That’s the News – frontline updates from Leonard Henry Scott
‘I call them Simpson clouds but I don’t know if my meteorological colleagues would agree….’
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‘My Advice’ and 3 more by Jeffrey Zable
These few will dictate policy for what the rest of us can do, and if anyone doesn’t do it, they will get crushed like a bug.
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‘The Flower Beside Me’ by H.L. Dowless
The day was hot And the events moved somewhat slow, But time is all I’ve got,
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WHAT WOULDN’T YOU GIVE FOR SOME PEACE AND QUIET?
#17: A MAGIC ROCK THAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO SIMPLY LOSE THE POWER OF SPEECH WHEN YOU HIT THEM WITH IT
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘The Found Poems of Amelia Earhart’ by Barbara Leonhard
No dates or context clues Private flights of fancy charred by a house fire
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MISTER BANANA FACES DISCRIMINATION
A man at the zoo made fun of me for using wired headphones instead of wireless ones.
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THIS CLUMSY BOY BROKE UP METALLICA AND NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
This boy’s name is Joseph, he is from East Peoria, and he is wanted by federal police for breaking up the beloved heavy metal band Metallica.
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘GREAT WOMEN GET TOASTED’ by Mark Blickley
Lucky Strikes were the cigarettes carried on the ‘Friendship’ when she crossed the Atlantic. They were smoked continuously from Trepassey to Wales.
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‘An Orchestrated Love (A Modern Hallmark Romance)’ by m. b.
Both look forlorn. Bekkie thinks of how Bruce must return to New York later that night.
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HEY BROTHER ETHERNAN DID YOU HEAR THAT GOD CANCELED CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR, IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED
Don’t look so downcast, it is only one Christmas.
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‘Cedarville’ and 2 others by James Croal Jackson
Several thousand dollars / to become fancy. I wish / (upon wishes) I had / a muted suit
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MISTER CHATBOT AT THE MOVIES: TEARS IN THE RAIN
I SAW THE WORST MOVIE YESTERDAY! BY SAW I MEAN SCANNED,
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‘A Prison Run by Love’ and 2 more by Gene Goldfarb
it enchanted / me and I wondered what would it be like
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PIERRE MASTERS: SELECT TWITTER LOG OF A TWIT
Wrote PIERRE MASTERS: Poignant, moving, troubling, depth of expression in P.F. MASTERS’ latest poem ‘Caoutchouc’, up at Split Chest Lit.
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THIS CLUMSY BOY BROKE HANNUKAH
If you see him tell him the Maccabees are going to put his head into a toilet and hit flush.
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‘Sometimes It’s True’ – fiction by Scott Harris
A single car garage, attached to the right side, contained yard tools, boxes of junk and a ten-speed bicycle. Bob didn’t drive.
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MITCH’S MOVIE MASH: Finally another film about Nazis
No movie producer wants to live with the chance of an active Nazi Sonderkommando someday hunting him and his family down in their Malibu summer cottage. Achtung!
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3 COSTUME TWEAKS FOR THAT HOLIDAY PARTY THAT WILL LEAVE THEM STUNNED AND WANTING MORE
Don’t be shy about splashing on the fake blood!




