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six word story no. 190
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six word story no. 189
six word story no. 185
Spoken each night by lovers unaware. *
*excerpted from California poet laureate Dana Gioia’s poem, “The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet”
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six word story no. 184
They were positively ripe for Sangria.
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six word story no. 183
She was volatile enough to vanish.
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six word story no. 182
The watchers made enormous clandestine bets.
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six word story no. 181
They found the blue God membrane.
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the center of the universe
“Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center.”
–Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
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six word story no. 174
They realized the narrator was unreliable.
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six word story no. 173
She found power made her saucy.
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