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Persnickety seems like the least profiling thing a cop could say. Kinda proud of Officer Persnickety.

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pretty sure it means old and white

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Oh, absolutely. That neighbor is geriatric and white. Anyone else would have elicited another adjective.

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“You should be sorry Ms. Jackson (ohhh), I am for real

Did you mean to make my daughter cry?

You should apologize a trillion times”

— Andrew 3000 in correspondence with Shirley Jackson on her short story ‘The Lottery’

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Dont call me Shirley.

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Shirley you can’t be serious?

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The last time I heard persnickety was in the comments section of a uropathy video where I was trying to tell someone not to drink their own piss. After I gone through all the reasons the uploader merely looked at my Twitter page determined that I was gay and called me a, “persnickety queen who should mind his own business.” Some people you just can’t through to.

Glad you all had fun!

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Not to be persnickety toward the troll, but shouldn’t that be “her” own business? 😆

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Do we get to read the “Shirley” winners?

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It was such a fun night!

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So great to see you!

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It was lovely to see you too and your story was great!

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It was so much fun and a great experience. Believe it or not, I've never had the chance to participate in an old fashioned stoning before. I didn't realize I had to be so careful not to hit someone I actually cared about and more importantly...get myself hit. I'm going to post Jackson story on substack in a couple days because my fellow Satanists just love it. I hope that's OK. Thank you Mr. Palahniuk! It was soooo cool! Everyone was sooo cooool!

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I can’t wait to read it. I posted my letter on my page a couple days ago.

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I just wanted to make sure ir was OK to share after the reading. I'm so excited about sharing it!

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I wish we could read it!

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I'm astounded and stoned to hear that Chuck read my story the other night after I had to leave. Thanks so much for the comment and for reading it so well, CP - no doubt better than I could have myself! It was a fun evening and I was kinda surprised how much I enjoyed throwing rocks at the mannequins with the crowd and knocking the dummies down flat. Terrific idea, Chuck. A rockin' good time.

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Congratulations to everyone that read. It sounds like a successful night.

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Awwww wonderful I love the bizarre and original community of writers from afar. Moving to Seattle soon- hope to meet others from this forum in the area and I’d love to know of any great writing groups. Congrats to Tom, I loved the story of the story 💘

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