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		<title>TYRONE by Tom Larsen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TYRONE
Snow rumbles against the floorboards pushing me sideways. Flakes as big as doilies flutter into my headlights as the wipers do the best they can. They’re calling for a foot in the outlying areas and an outlying area is right where I’m headed, to my own dismay and Andree’s sputtering disbelief. Tyrone’s call came shortly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROT by Laura Ellen Scott - &#039;As I&#039;ve grown older--and colder--I&#039;ve become irresistible&#039;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA['As I've grown older--and colder--I've become irresistible'By way of introduction, I should tell you that when I was seven, my father took me and my little brother, Phil, on a car ride at 3 in the morning. We drove for hours and hours, stopping only for pop and potty. The next day, policemen took my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EYE PRIZE, FINGER TRIGGER by Elizabeth Wong - Keep your eye on the prize and your finger on the trigger.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep your eye on the prize and your finger on the trigger.Chad wore his pants around  his buttocks and slung his wallet from a chain. He enjoyed the way the  chain slammed against his thigh as he walked – it echoed his steps  like thunderous applause, which he so desired, and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BURNT by David Canellis - &quot;People can&#039;t wait to be brain-dead.&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["People can't wait to be brain-dead."I&#8217;ve noticed my days have become  the same. Mostly, I mean there&#8217;s differences &#8211; one day  of the  week is pay day (if there had been any work) and sometimes the  women change. But it&#8217;s all mostly the same. We were poor. Well, I was  poor. [...]]]></description>
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