126863
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when the devil dies he divides enough evil for everybody
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60466
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Then one day, Grandmother warned our father, her son, just like that. "Steven," she said, though he hated it when she used his full name, "I think some sort of storm is coming."
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115244
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Perseid meteors fly past their ship like cosmic fire-wasps.
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5800
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The first time I saw an exorcism, I knew there was no God.
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10900
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A small house is blanketed in snow.
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125976
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Two weeks after All Souls’ Day, he trudges through the overgrown pasture behind the farmhouse, his head bent, intent on his footing, a shovel his walking stick.
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93455
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Years later Polyphemus still remembers the wine-soaked taste of Odysseus’s men. The barley and garlic-flavored Greeks. Their flesh a fibrous, blood-hued hummus. Their crunched bones releasing sweet marrow.
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78300
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The sound wasn’t coming from her dream, it was coming from inside the house. Somewhere outside her bedroom the noise was gaining power. Each pitch climbed higher with the urgency of a smoke alarm. With hands over ears and a hazy brain she got up from her
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1100
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Patrick McAllister, the tormented young man who used to work beside me on pizzas, really did have a degree in astrophysics.
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19634
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Patrick McAllister, that tormented young man who used to work beside me on pizzas, really did have a degree in astrophysics. I saw a photograph of his graduation certificate with my own two eyes.
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33143
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Let's bury Trumpty Dumpty’s melted plastic hair!
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100
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Let's bury Trumpty Dumpty’s melted plastic hair!
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73463
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It was only a dream. No one died, nor were they even harmed. So horrifying!
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54253
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“You can’t fool us,” the woman with the red scarf said as she waved the stick in Tonio’s face. “You and your friend back there must have killed this man last night by running him over with a truck."
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