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When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.Emma Rose Kraus
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So ask me if I am alright.' I’m fine; I’m always fine.' You see this look in my eyes.' No, I’m fine. I am always fine.' There is a corpse behind my smile.' Listen, I am fine. Always, always fine as fine can be.'' Are you okay?'' I am more than okay. I am more than fine. I am wonderful!Emma Rose Kraus
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The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.Emma Rose Kraus
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And from the top of the building I look down upon the world and see the crowds of people in the city I have made and the world that I have created. This universe, my universe, dies with me. I will jump and I will die and yet, I will live, as I always do. I will live and die and murder, a massacre of my people. And I watch as the girl’s bare feet leap and her naked body falls. Down, down, down, she falls. She drops. Into the fires of a hell of my making.Emma Rose Kraus
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You're insane.' The officer says, shaking his head, 'What about the Bible? What about the Good Word?''Oh, that's all made up, ain't it?' She tells him with a shrug, 'I ain't done most of the stuff that you says I done.Emma Rose Kraus
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But she's not.' I told the man, 'Look at you! You're a vampire giving up beating hearts in favor of the woman you love. That's pretty-'' Embarrassing?' he finished for me with a frown. I narrowed my eyebrows, 'Well, what I was going to say was admirable, but I guess that works too.Emma Rose Kraus
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She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.Emma Rose Kraus
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I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.Emma Rose Kraus
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The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils. Autumn had come early this year and I was excited for the change in colors that had already begun to take over the trees of the forest that surrounded Grandmother’s house.Emma Rose Kraus