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Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.
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Having been speechless earlier by Terry’s news, I was now blindsided by my father’s appearance. He looked absolutely ragged—pale and unshaven, the skin on his face wilted like a rotten plum, fleshy and discolored in spots. Gray streaks around his
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She did not know what it would feel like, how it would happen … but she knew it would be done. She knew that it would be magical, like nothing she could see or hear through the cornfields or around the markets.
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He’s got the pages he ripped out of the Bible at the motel. He has crumpled them up into a ball and stuffed them into his pocket. The sharp little crinkles in the text are the teeth of God.
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When they were seven, he’d taken them out to the desert and let them shoot a .38 at rusted cans. The explosions rocked them back on their heels.
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A squirt of adrenalin alerted me to the slim figure wending through the maze of reading desks. Capt. de Maupassant. Damn. Headed my way. My quickening pulse and a surge of gut chemicals told me the sadistic bastard had me in his sights.
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“My god, Al, you're gray. Oh, no! You're going bald!” She laughed again, louder this time, and reached to grab what was left of my hair. I pulled back and grabbed her wrist. I let it go.
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“OK. You're the CEO of a multinational corporation that buys politicians, hires foreign labor at slave wages and, worst of all, sells addictive poison to children..."
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Now they tell me this was all part of the plan, the research project. Get me out of office, disgraced and behind bars...
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Tattoos of viper skulls shone on the men’s faces. Viper neck bones glistened on their cheeks, viper tongues flicked blood in the shape of tears and crying eyes, in the shape of crosses.
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When practical I much prefer soaking in a bath than dashing in and out of a shower, which had been my only option in prison the previous six months.
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I noticed the bright green beam of light linking the tabletop, where the cup had been, to one of the birds still hovering overhead.
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I saw a man I didn't recognize standing just outside the door staring at us. I had a feeling he'd been there awhile.
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Please trust me, this is no dîner avec André.
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"Who is the most dangerous person in the world right now?"
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