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Victims

(8 stories)

Life-saving advice for fashion victims

Skinny jeans wreck nerves.
Ties lead to hypertension.
Kaftans are quite safe.

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Their first day in the valley passed without incident allowing the conversation to turn to the victims of empire. Jay began to cry
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Bellow wrote &
Bogarde played &
Boy George sung
Victims, one and all
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The four chums chose not to be victims of the school system and started writing poems for cash in Mrs Jones' English class #130story

They aren't victims. They aren't people. They are metrics. Numbers in a spreadsheet. Nothing more. They can't be any less. #130story

Victims of circumstance
Trying to behave
Then that Apple Pie
Looked so tasty
And thwat
That was that
Why had we returned as flies?
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He stood, wild-eyed, chest heaving, fists clenched. The tiny bodies of his victims were strewn on the floor. He hated flies. #130story

All it required was the simple act of pressing the India ink-soaked rubber stamp firmly down into the bottom corner of the paper. #130story