Stories tagged “cocaine”
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Light On, Lights Out
Mrs. Light stuck her head in her daughter’s room, “Ezzie, are you…” “Oh! Mom, hey mom! Yes, mom, hi, mom. Yeah! Hey, you look great, great. Great? Great! Mom…” This kept going, and all Mrs. Light could do was r...
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Percolating It Ain't
Percolate. Effort and random associations are struggling to steep the vapors of imagination with something more than retread ideas and glossy superficiality. I should be doing something else. This will amount to nothing anyway. I should go read ‘...
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For A Lady I Know
My last sentiment Meant merely cents To her high dollar flight And chauffuer caller that night. I feel without when I’m with her— She’s in doubt sniffing drugs as her thoughts wither.
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Brotherhood
Cocaine half spilled out of the small Ziploc baggy. Karl thought it looked like snow, though he’d never seen real snow, just on t.v.. He pushed the majority of it back into the clear plastic and wiped his hands on his pants. “Time to ride o...
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Scarlet Ambrosia
He was already bleeding. I didn’t have to kill him. There was nothing I could do to secure his release—not from a whole lair of vampires who all knew more about what they were and how to handle themselves than I could even guess at. At leas...
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Powder
I lick the tip of my finger and dip it in the pile of white powder. Rubbing it along my swollen gums, I sigh. Relief. I’m soaring, but not like a bird. I’m soaring like an unstoppable force in the universe. It isn’t enough. It never i...