Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Those halcyon days of yore when Chris still had the goodwill of the people, before we knew he was a monster."

• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• He had a life before he met you, you know
• Back when grunge was still cool
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• When the crown becomes too heavy for the head of the czar he still won't be allowed to remove it
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• And in those days was armageddon
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• If a frog had wings, he wouldn't kick his tail when he jumped
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Back when our blood was still warm
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• When I was young Time had no wings
• The Message of King Sakis and the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night
• I was a father for a few days
• Those were the days
• King George he had a Date
• He had something to say. He said it.
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• The day I was showering with two black men
• Preaching Christianity to hitch hikers when you don't believe in God on the day of the Devil
• I had no idea what he thought about me.
• He Had Not Where To Lay His Head
• The Island of the Day Before
• DeDe Halcyon Day
• I get more done after midnight than most people do all day
• I was Christian for a day
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• The other day I saw a gas station called Space Age! I was not fooled!
• When the rescue plane landed, I realized we had resorted to cannibalism too soon.
• he had a dream
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Cybersex before it was cool
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• When I Heard at the Close of Day
• i'm a million different people from one day to the next
• When the eye of day is shut
• It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
• You ever have one of those days where you go, "Well. This might as well happen."
• we broke it in days, years later still broken
• There was a cold day
• I was Chris to him
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• Ground rush
• She disappeared as if he had only dreamed her
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• When each had their own personal anthem
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• When did you decide to forget every wrong you had done?
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• the days before porn
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• RFC 1882
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• Early, before our hands knew what to do
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• Music was better in the old days
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
• How many times has God twiddled his thumbs before he put vertebrates on the Earth?
• Stoned music memories
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• One of those days
• Just One Of Those Days
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Days when art is too much to bear
• Upon the hills where day was done
• Food was purer in the good old days
• Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• There Are Days When I Leave My Life Next to My Black Boots
• The only significant bit of nonsense I carried around in those days
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• Remember when you had words for everything?
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• I was once young and had a home
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• When I woke up this morning I had no regrets - I felt no shame
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• You should have killed me when you had the chance
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Before Time Was
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• I had seen the whole thing coming like a ghost train. Here I am on the tracks, still bleeding, taking phone numbers, haunted.
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• The one he murdered once still loves him
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• When you had left our pirate fold
• before either of us had to turn away
• I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
• When Chris Came Home
• Chris and What He Untaught Me
• i was given a mind before i was given a heart
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Halcyon Days
• Things to do on Valentine's day when you're single
• The day I realized what being alive was
• We do more after 2am than most people do all day.
• With all the advances in technology it still takes 3 days to clear a cheque
• So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
• You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life even if you had an electrified fooling machine!
• All my favorite people live in this box that I look at every day
• These are the days when birds come back
• the days of yore
• Days Before
• I've had you here before
• The day I found out I was a guy
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• Those were the days of miracles and splendour
• Driving my Saturn through Jupiter on a day when the mercury hit 100 degrees
• Are you on drugs or just having one of those days?
• I remember, back in the day, when the Other Users list never exceeded 19
• To this day, I still keep my eyes open
• Still the best 15 minutes of your day
• I Had Already Quit That Job About 20 Days Ago...in my mind, anyway
• The day he gave me a lift
• Goodbye, Halcyon Days
• Did you think of me before you knew me?
• a bad day is when I lie in the bed and think of things that might have been
• The Day the World was about to End
• The Day Earth Was Born
• Loving someone, knowing down to the day when you will leave them.
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• I met a girl in the garden who was doomed to die the next day.
• It was a green field and a pleasant day
• I met him two days ago and now he wants to fly me to Peru
• i just keep waiting for the day when i'll see you again
• the day when the peasants would eat all the British media
• In any world in which i was your friend for even a day, i am grateful.
• I've had better hugs from wind gusts and dead people
• he left on a day that ended in why
• And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed
• I fall in love with my migraine, every day he seduces me with a kiss.
• all those days are gone
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• When Askeladden and the Troll had an Eating Competition
• You have had sex with all the people your partner has had sex with
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?

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