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He has such a stupid look on his face, with that bulbous nose and ugly tooth.
“What do you mean you quit?”
“I quit, Wally. I’m done. It’s over.”
“Bullshit!”
“Seriously. I want out.”
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Those days of putting the toe of a good leather boot into the eye socket of some wanna be street hustlin pioneer, were gone.
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He tames. He has always tamed. See the peacocks he's named for, see them perched to each side of his throne. Docile, quiet, collared little pets. Such proud, loud birds - they might as well be mute sparrows now.
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You stand at the foot of her bed and watch her breathing, the in and the out of necessary life.
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...with each passing year his pain grew as his body grew...
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...with each passing year his pain grew as his body grew...
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Megan Collier clutched the metal sill of her window, torn between fear and intrigue. Though not her first film expedition, it was her first trip to the African continent. Seasoned and well-paid, this crew had weathered precarious situations before. The dr
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Tommy left the kitchen and the horrors of the dish pit and went downstairs to the change rooms. The locker he normally kept his pit clothes in was empty. Some janitor had gone on a cleaning binge for no apparent reason. He put his coat and sneakers in the locker that used…
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After an hour Tommy nearly had a handle on the mess in the pit. He carried two racks of glasses to the dining room and left them at the server's station. Kimberly was in her early forties. She'd been working at the restaurant maybe longer than Tommy'd been alive. You poor…
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I'm looking to go out this Saturday, just this one night, and have a good time because I'm normally a good girl.
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She felt like every cell in her body was vomiting, like everyone in the coffee shop was talking about what a failure she had become, like her lungs were filled with charcoal dust and blood.
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And, despite Min’s best efforts, they talked about Dad. Ruthie cried. Min wouldn’t. It was his fucking decision. But listening a few minutes longer to her sister, whose voice wobbled with the panic and despair of the discarded, she found herself crying fo
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"Isn’t a world where we are made up of mostly empty space and magnetic fields and that time and space warps around us magical enough?"
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A tremor ran through her and then a fizz, like circuits misfiring in her brain: Zssst. Pop. Crack. Things flashed in blue and red and yellow on the inside of her eyelids, but when she opened her eyes, Alex's bedroom was still dark
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Mo comforted himself with the thought he was dead—that he had actually died last night and everything since Min went to get him a Fanta was some kind of “Occurrence at Owl Creek” thing:
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