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“Follow me,” he said. “They’re on the other side of the island. There’s nothing on this side. People—normal people—don’t live around here.”
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Something had woken me, but I wasn’t sure what—all I knew was that I had been pulled from sleep by something loud and sudden, and now I was lying awake, alert and unsettled, in the otherwise silent room.
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6361214
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everything becomes an excuse
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My voice sounded as empty and useless as I’d felt the night before, seeing her, bloody and battered, in the bathroom across the hall from my room.
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9965
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We ran together on the frozen motherland like an inseparable duo of disoriented, insane, but discrete hyenas.
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26311
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I picked my way down one of the stone staircases, where the broken stone urns wept weeds and shreds of bird’s nests onto the landings...
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128111
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He had a handsome dial tone, we called him every name but his.
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101111
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The following is a true story. Though it happened 35 years ago, it happened last night too. Everyday a new convert is welcome, a new tapestry begun. A new hunger is born.
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“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
“Saving your life,” said the man. “Probably.”
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“I won't live here,” Beth said, waving her hand to indicate the small Southern town in which they were having dinner—the most delicious fried chicken either of them had ever tasted—in a restaurant located in an antebellum mansion. She looked…
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"They don't know how this formed or how it got to where it is today. What we do know is that it's not going to last forever." Said Edward McCabe to his daughter who hadn't learned to talk but communicated with her father through her agreement or disagreem
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96521
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lucy had simply taken a kitchen knife and removed the outer layer, the layer of things people notice
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105933
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They look like giant golden raindrops, or flying saucers, or peculiar fish out of their element
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a white rabbit with a dirty monocle and a straw hat regarded marsha from the grass at the edge of the mud.
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