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The lines that gave life to our stories

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When I was nine I was absolutely certain that something replaced our family dog.

Eleri Denham, from “My Dog Jackson”

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A boy was born with two heads in Bangladesh.

Thomas Hrycyk, from “No Race of Monsters”

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My brother was the one who found it.

Carson Markland, from “Armadillo Jesus”

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Each morning, Mr. Gallagher checked the beacon.

Erin Calabria, from “The Closest Thing”

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For a long time, I aspired to be a person with whom nothing was wrong.

Mike Nagel, from Consumer Value Store

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Scarlett accidentally wakes the dead in the bottom of a coat closet, with a half-naked boy pressed against her and a bottle of tequila she’s too drunk to drink.

Carlie St George, from “Three May Keep a Secret”

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Down on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there’s a little bar called Cooney’s.

Delia Sherman, from “At Cooney’s”

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In an overgrown yard, you sit with a tiny noose draped across your lap.

Brian Clifton, from “The Introvert’s Guide to Dreams: Yards”

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It starts with a bombing of an ancient city.

Melissa R Sipin, from “This First Breath”

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The summer after my mother left, my father began selling our household on evenings and weekends.

Scott Broker, from “Summer of Families”

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I was born with a tongue, but the others were not.

Mary Elizabeth Burroughs, from “Waste”

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My man has gone bad again, rotted milk.

Etter, Sarah Rose, from “Volcano Diagram”

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On Saturday Daniel Morgenthau decided to stop eating.

Josh Jones, from “The Truth About Goldfish”

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A tall man dressed in a Grim Reaper costume walks into first period AP Government with a California Highway Patrol officer.

Jeff Chon, from “This is Not Happening”

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Mallory's gynecologist tells her that she is going to paint her cervix.

Hillary Leftwich, from “Examination”

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The robots stood apart from us, some meters away, blandly surveying the unfolding scene with dull-glowing eyes.

Matt Rowan, from “When the robots arrived”

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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

David Mitchell, from Cloud Atlas