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I judge people two ways – on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favourite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.
I unwrap a fresh pack of cassettes. They smell good.
Children are like a chain around your heart or neck, and they pull you in every direction.
There are five or six rolls of duct tape on Ted’s bed. He buys the stuff by the yard.
macramé
she went away
Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.
‘Locronan,’
In the village they called him Pemoc’h, because he slept where the pig would sleep.
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Trugarez,
‘It is practice,’ Mommy said. ‘You will thank me in the end. Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.’
‘I want you to feel the power of it,’ she said. ‘Of walking away from something you love. Doesn’t it make you feel strong?’
cat key ring
cottonmouth
rowing
caca.
brouhaha
lunk.’
Bible fell off table again?!?!? Why? Table legs uneven?!?!?!
pyrethrin.
timothy grass
bullshots.
people who like lemon juice are the same kind of people who love salad. I won’t have it in the house.
ankou
She winces and resists the urge to mention that she’s a poet, but doesn’t know it.
Ophidiophobia,
timbre,
boilermaker.
If sorrow had a scent, she thinks, this is what it would be like.
gadabout,
Well, if the lord always made everything perfectly clear, there would be no point in faith, would there?
imprisoned
sibilant
The past is close tonight. The membrane of time bulges and strains.
corn snake,
Snowball, that was his name. The mouse, not the boy.
dust bunnies.
Theodore.
This was a place of transformation, where the wall between worlds was thin. I could feel it.
iliz.
Compare with ’église’.
Damselflies
we
Lauren pulled me on.
Orange Julius
barrettes
Everyone needs someone, Lauren, I say sternly. Even I know that. A person to stroke you and tell you nice things and get annoyed with you sometimes.
Dissociative identity disorder.
War of Northern Aggression.
Don’t worry, no one will ever know it’s you. I’ll change your name – Ed Flagman or something.
thurst
Typo - should be 'thrust'.
