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No Personal Checks, Please
[fiction365 | 15 January 2012]

I want to thank all of you for coming and I hope you lied to your family and friends about where you were going to be tonight. I have to say this is a pretty impressive turnout for a club that only advertises via small, classified ads. I think you’ll soon discover that being here is one of the best decisions you’ve ever made, because in a few short weeks you’re going to be certified to set up your own club anywhere you want, and you’re going to be making a lot of money and helping a lot of people at the same time. Everybody wins by you making the right choice to be here. This is a pretty special group.
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Love and Laundry and Outer Space
[dogzplot | february 2011]

Thursday nights before Astrology Club she and I would meet in the basement laundry room of our building to lay flat and still and naked on the cold concrete floor while our soiled clothes commingled in the warm suds of a stackable washer-drier unit.
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UPDATE FEB. 26: “Love and Laundry and Outer Space” is on the Orange Alert Watch List! Thanks, Orange Alert!

Go Home, Son, Your War Is Over
[long story short | february 2011]

Michael drove through the crispness of an unusually cool August afternoon, windows down, a preview of the too-few weeks in the coming autumn, down Stellhorn Road, turned away from the interstates, out by corn fields, down past a bowling alley and a cemetery, turned back toward a state road, stopped paying attention in an attempt to get lost in his own hometown but unconsciously pulled into his parents’ driveway, and parked.
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Love and Gambling
[negative suck | february 2011]

He told me to shut up and deal, so I did, partly because it made me feel like a big man to be talked at that way and partly because what else could I do? I dealt all the cards while he was in the bathroom and when I ran out I opened another deck and dealt those, too.
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Love and Prostitutes
[weirdyear | 21 january 2011]

The main problem Uncle Mathis had was with the whores. He couldn’t resist them.
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The Missionary Explains His Sexual Prowess
[orion headless | 20 january 2011]

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Love and Ice Cream
[weirdyear | 15 january 2011]

The Sunday sundae escalated quickly after we came up with the catchy name, both in terms of frequency and in number of scoops.
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Two Men
[full of crow | january 2011]

“All I usually do,” Greg said, “is invite over any friends or family, anyone in the area, and just make a time of it. Keep it simple.”

“Aye. A fine ritual.”

“A person is lost without rituals.”

“Certainly lost,” Peter said.
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Love and Computers
[dogzplot | december 2010]

She’s shooting Paul Auster quotes at me like I give a fuck. It’s 5 AM and we haven’t slept since yesterday’s 5 AM.
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