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To say the least, we'd passed the point of no return. To herald a new age, you couldn't ask for a more anticlimactic event. The scream was the default mode of every sentient being.
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Then we started running. I can't say which was chasing which but I was in the rear being chased by those in front. We did a bit of Hi or Ferris. "Dinner's almost done." I couldn't
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I couldn't find the Tylenol. I knew I was looking right at the Tylenol but I couldn't see it and, therefore, I couldn't find it. I looked away. I looked back. I saw it. It saw me.
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Those who faced the brunt end of Muscaria Hemlock, which was most of the world, would be surprised to learn that although she raised a brood of assassins, she was a doting mother.
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Cly, short for Clymemnestria, was a bastard daughter of Muscaria Hemlock. As such, Cly was viscous, beautiful, calculating, and overly qualified at most things. Shebopping was her
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We'd found the hands in the Ronstadt Woods below the aqueduct ruins. We'd each wound up with one hand each. We assumed there'd been pairs at some time but none of ours matched. Cly
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You kicking in me in the face while I tried to hang on to the edge of the precipice. You driving your heels into my fingers in an attempt to make me release my grip. You peppering
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weird concoction that my demented grandma cooked up on the stove and then potted up in unsanitary jars. I can see out into her kitchen, but I cannot scream." These alarming words
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-al miasma will continue until we decide, as a nation, to get our butts in gear and try to become something better. But we tend to return to our unbecoming ways because we cannot
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For one thing the maps the islanders had given them were not to scale or the parts that were, were to scale in another dimension where pi was equal to 3.00. The explorers were lost
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I grabbed the phone from her hand to see what she had been watching that burned out her eyes like that. I knew I had to be careful on how much I saw of whatever it was. I needed to
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"No, unless he wants it. I thought he hated that name because it reminded him of Magilla Gorilla and the thriller in Manila, that one time. I thought he wanted to be named Lilith."
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appointments with nothingness. We can, at least, help you find the best nothingness for you." Others, a very few, will get a more nuanced pitch. Those asking the right questions of
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the other side of grandmother's island for you. You'll have to share the boathouse with the twins. They have a year to build their own." Amanda Widdershins took Carlotta's largesse
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didn't flinch from truth. Sven nodded. Then he grasped Blasted's arm. "I won't hold not walking into a trap against you. That would have been me killing you for my mistake." Howls
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Dison pad pairs to be so readily available. So he'd never considered it. Hrengor figured it out when he was the last patron in the smoothie bar & transit 738 was exploding. It was
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and knocking two balls on a string between her legs. The lush flaming bush revealed the carpet didn't match drapes. I didn't care which was true. Being eye level to it engendered
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I'm not liking channeling The Dutchman. He's a lot more interesting dying than he is being inside me. I'm waiting for another gem like, "French-Canadian bean soup". Better than Las
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"Exactly Sers. And why would a recent add to the tower guard allow an armed stranger into the tower against orders," an apparition said to Blasted & Sven. Both drew their swords.
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Our 2014 people thought they had it bad. They weren't in the worse 2014. The 2014 people from that 2014 couldn't imagine having it good. To them it was a legend or fairy tale. Some