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You know what parents have to do to get an Xbox? They don't just stand in line and someone hands them an Xbox, OK? That's sacrifice. They have to sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice. I mean, I chase alpacas a mile every night in subfreezing conditions,
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This is the story of my friend, Gil
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The struggling creature opened its beak and let out a shrill cry before both parents moved in and, using their webbed feet, forced its head back under the surface.
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The explosions sound like gunshots. Antonio Gattorno, absorbed in his work, flinches. He curses as he smears the brush across the canvas. He’s been painting since mid-morning. It‘s a hot summer day. Tomorrow is the fourth of July.
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The Kid, The Executive, The Doctor, and The Actress.
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Bronze carillon bells swung in wooden frames and bayed the hour like angry beasts.
The peals echoed through the central towers of Empress Velrishial’s Ospan city palace. They erupted in the complex’s great-halls, then trickled down congested tiers int
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Those small peculiar moments, brown and liquid, invented themselves before him while his cup drifted out of view...
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There is some debate about what kind of twins they are. It’s a fissure between aesthetics and science.
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I cover him up with the Weekend magazine when I use the toilet.
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That sound. Bone against bone. Skin across skin. Blood fraying into the unknown dark. He loved that sound.
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There’s nothing I can do to help. There’s nothing I would do.
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I felt the most afraid I’ve ever felt in my life, like all the unknowns in the universe were rushing through me at once.
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She hated the noiseless dying sound they made as he stuck the hook through their eyes. She always wanted for them to scream, but they never did. They didn’t even blink.
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I explain the treatment. Introduce the four drugs I'm about to administer. What they are. How they work. What are the side effects. “Where's your port?” I ask. The patient opens up the top button of her shirt so that her collarbone is exposed. I place my
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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