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“If Bagel's face was a lump of clay on a pottery wheel, it'd been rapidly thrown from an angry grey blob to a rather enthusiastic vase.”

Emotion Emotions Excitement Clay Pottery Metaphors

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“...from sweaty-palmed anxiety blooms vivid imagination.”

Imagination Anxiety Stress Relatable

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“I wasn't sure if I'd imagined you and it'd be very telling of my mental state if I was bringing sodas to something I'd imagined.”

Imagination Aliens Sanity Ghosts Soda

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“The money he stuffed into the gaping void of family fell limply through to the floor of a mansion he lived in alone.”

Love Wealth Money Family Loneliness Emptiness Material Things

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“He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit.”

Wealth Fabric Masterpiece Couture Tailored Suit Black Suit Formalwear

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“...as if his bank account wasn't about to see numbers it would have to take a remedial math course just to identify.”

Wealth Money Math Cash Inheritance Counting

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“When anything and everything you ask for is handed to you, those hands seem to blur into nothingness and you forget they're alive just like you are.”

Humanity Wealth Power Society Regret Balance Empathy Privilege

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“That's the unfortunate part about historical structures in general; however breathtaking they might be, if the walls could talk, they might actually sob.”

History Sadness Mississippi Old South If The Walls Could Talk

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“I doubt there's any significance in a second-to-last breath.”

Life Death Human Significance Afterlife

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“The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.”

Crazy Value Furniture Eccentric Vintage Antiques Eclectic Whimsical

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“He ended up smashing several fax machines for the failure they represented to him, but of course had to pay for them because of what they represented to the Best Buy stores in which they'd been smashed.”

Humor Failure Value Damage

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“He felt to be two tea bags away from making some progress on the entire situation, and that was a precise calculation. Any caffeine drinker excels in this area of mathematics.”

Life Stress Tea Relatable Caffeine

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“Unlike in the movies, the weather seemed indifferent to his personal predicament and refused dramatic contribution. It was a rather pleasant day, in fact.”

Drama Stress Weather Dramatic Sunshine Movies

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“They stood there looking as if they'd weathered a brief but intense storm between Bagel's cubicle and the break room.”

Humor Travel Stress

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“The hatred was, in a word, monochromatic.”

Humanity Society Diversity Racism Hatred Aliens Monochromatic

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“There just seemed to be so many evolutionary layers to each individual person, some more than others, that they were able to blend their differences into a living mural the way a planet like Hessdalen never could. And never would, seeing as how it had ceased to exist entirely. It had missed it's chance.”

Earth Humanity Culture Race Evolution Diversity Ethnicity

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“...celebrating in a sea of little more than cacti and a billion stars.”

Stars Desert Celebration Cacti

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“He inquired with the confidence of anyone trying free samples at a grocery store and putting on an Oscar-worthy performance of a person that was going to come back and buy it all later.”

Acting Food Confidence Shopping Oscars Relatable The Struggle Free Samples

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“They were feeling generously dramatic due to lack of food.”

Food Hunger Hungry Dramatic

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“Sorry it took me so long to get back here. I went out front to smoke, and then I saw Angel's truck was unlocked and made myself a burrito with a crushed up fortune cookie inside,' said the only person they knew that would say that, carrying the little grey kitten. He pulled a wet paper fortune out of the beans. 'My burrito says 'Keep your eye on the prize'.”

Humor Food Fortune Marijuana Tacos Fortune Cookie Burritos Stoned Keep Your Eye On The Prize

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“He'd chain-smoked so heavily over the years in the vicinity of that travel bag that he wouldn't be surprised if the leather had developed a tumor.”

Humor Health Travel Smoking Tumors

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“She could've overlooked the level of tackiness if the tackiness was also tactful. Which it was not.”

Balance Manners Tact Gaudy Tacky

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“Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.”

Universe Space Planets Aliens Space Travel Paperwork

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“They each raised their glasses from the puddles on the table, and clinked them together in celebration. They weren't sure what they were celebrating, but more than anything it felt like they were celebrating that exact moment in time and all of the incredible events that had to take place for it to have existed in time at all.”

Life Time Humanity Universe Celebrate Aliens Multiverse Incredible Cheers

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“She was an anomaly of her own universe and of his, and represented the collision of everything he'd ever known and everything he'd ever wanted to.”

Love Romance Universe Attraction Aliens Soulmates Souls Multiverse

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“What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.”

Life Universe Planets Outer Space Multiverse

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“The driver had recently scraped an 'AMRAK is Love' decal from his back window, leaving a sticky residue of his former beliefs.”

Love Politics Regret Deceit Beliefs Metaphors

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“The brochures remained perfectly stacked, looming over their conversation, mocking his failure with their pristine tri-folds.”

Failure Advertisements Metaphors Brochures

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“It was as if humans' lives didn't end per se, but kind of trailed off with punctuating ellipses. After that third dot it was open-ended, brilliantly poised for anything one could imagine. Earth was warm with potential like that.”

Life Death Religion Opportunities Afterlife Reincarnation Unknown Ellipses

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“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”

Humor Drugs Spoons Drug Addiction Feng Shui

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“It sat proudly basking in the warm glow of the street lights; it wasn't a menacing 'enter at your own risk' sight at all. More of a 'come in if you'd like, if not then have a lovely evening' picturesque artifact of the Old South.”

Southern Museum Haunted House Antebellum Enter At Your Own Risk Old South Mississippi

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“In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank--- life, 'dot dot dot'.”

Inspiration Death Humanity Loss Afterlife Coping Punctuation Ellipses

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“Mens formalwear is not conducive to such un-refined things as cowering in an office corner, or curling up in the fetal position on a desk.”

Business Suits Discomfort Formalwear

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“...and yet there was one lump in that freshly raked zen garden: a small woman crying into a fish bowl.”

Metaphors Zen Garden

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“Over all, it appeared to be some sort of drug or money laundering front that was having a terribly difficult time of not coming across as both.”

Humor Money Business Drugs Money Laundering Drug Front

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“Rock bottom had turned out to be more greasy and hairy than rocky.”

Life Relatable Rock Bottom The Struggle Hairy Greasy

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“It was as if a mad scientist had sold all of his important tools and chemicals at a yard sale, leaving a makeshift laboratory of scrap materials that the neighbors didn't want.”

Humor Science Laboratory Mad Scientist Yard Sale Lab

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“Although relocating to a state he imagined he'd not even used in a sentence since grade school was not in his life plan, it had seemed like a glittering offer slid across a table off of which he couldn't afford to eat.”

Moving Forward Unemployment Coping Mississippi Relocation

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“These were not the aliens out beaming anyone up. If anything, they'd be the ones providing apologetic form letters to the inconveniently beamed-up.”

Humor Planets Aliens Apology Ufo Outerspace

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“...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.”

Work Dreams Goals Relatable Waiter Waitress Aspirations Ambitions

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“Freelance' means I can take watermelon breaks and no one can yell at me.”

Artist Time Management Self Employed Freelance Watermelon

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“The payroll department was the only organized department they had, carefully and tediously ensuring no one was ever overpaid.”

Humor Government Money Business Paid Payroll

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“If 'quaint' was a piano's Middle C, Marfa was a B-flat; it was peacefully strange.”

Strange Aliens Texas West Texas Marfa Lights B Flat Marfa

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“His undeniably impressive resume might as well have said he designed an updated swastika for the modern Neo-Nazi, the way brick walls had been put up around his entire field of work.”

Art Humor Graphic Design Nazis Resume Swastika

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