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They had to praise him tonight because they were also going to hang him in the morning. Violet Rasmussen from Evadale, a sister of the late, Rev. Obadiah Rasmussen-Beech, was there
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The seer's glass shimmered and then we could see inside the enemy general's tent. We didn't speak their language and the sound was muffled like from a great distance. Still, we saw
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He was on the bus, a half hour in, when he realized he didn't have his phone. Then he remembered where he had left it. On top of the ammunition in the garage. Interview or phone?
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Sven usually stopped at Jim's Truck stop about now to fuel and grab a meal. Today it was different. The kid behind the counter on the store side was playing Devil's Music by Diablo
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Or how every dawn is a reminder of our stupor." When she looked over her shoulder she saw that Spade was quietly laughing at her. "You're a good one sister. You wanna rearrange the
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door but the key said 31. It didn't matter because the key worked. I hadn't expected much but I hoped for a clean bed. Dust filled the doorway when I opened the door. "Good going."
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No. That is not the question to be asking. What is the meaning of life. No more questions. What is the meaning of life. These are statements of fact. The meaning of life is what.
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across the aisle told me angrily. She had a point. I didn't want to jinx it by bringing attention to it. I promised myself to be in Atlanta during the next pandemic as well.
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TDO, joked "Altlanta for sure a hotzone but they didn't know about it because they hadn't heard about the pandemic over everybody playing theys music louder than dem skud missile."
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Ted came home to the house full of grandkids. Both his sons, and both of their wives, were First Responders and needed someplace for the kids to shelter in place. Ted was coughing.
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You gotta have a game plan for everything. I mean everything. Three months ago I saw that I did not have any peanut better. I didn't want any then but I knew this day was coming.
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to realize that the path is now blurry. I can't remember where I've been. And I obviously don't know where im going. But im still walking
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I'm afraid you have misunderstood my purpose. Your great-great-great-great grandson, John Connors has sent me to you from the future to protect you from a terminator," Garzan said.
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in the next aisle drew their attention and I got my chance to walk the gauntlet of what is left on the shelves that I can use and that aren't already contaminated by the desperate
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"We could Cassida Jones him." Larssen smiled sadly. How does a hippy forget that he's about love and not violence? He took a puff from his Pax. "No, Silkwood her." Oi was surprised
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she read Richard Cory & shaved her head, & downed 27 pills of stolen anti-depressants, & drove her Prius into the Cayohoga River. Where it caught fire and she was shot by a hippy.
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Having already broken one of the laws of physics, Ned told his cellmates that he was going to escape by breaking another. The Law of the Conservation of Energy. He used a bar of
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and I put it back on the shelf. I flicked it with my finger like his dad used to. Then I went for a walk behind the paper plant. Wondering why Meryl made me Split-Tongued Maggot. I
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A hunch had Chuck in a funk. The hunch was a bunch of … about the trunk in the truck of his work truck. He’d lunked that trunk in the trunk since Sputnik & the U2. Punchdrunk punk.
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Although ubiquitous some aphorisms are hardly universal. Inclusion of them in standardized tests builds in a cultural bias. "One swallow does not a summer make," for instance. Some