The raven Aristide spoke into Blasted's mind: "It's okay to doubt and be unsure, when the template seems easy but wrong." Sven's voice added: "We are not items on a takeout menu!"

By then Blasted realized he had handed all of his key control points over to the Russo-Republican operatives, and that the Chinese had also been listening in. Would love in autumn

My lame niece read a few lines from the Russian Symbolists of Zx238, then laid her head on her arms. The tea glasses stayed put and also the oranges in the bowl and we continued to

My Grindr date turned out to be a real grinder. On our Zoom date he said, "I appreciate that you don't use video A.I. Hairy and baggy are okay -- those can always be strained off

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a conniver with such a limited horizon. I paid another dark web guy $1200 a month to tranq the hitman and keep him fed. I liked the new guy, so when my new chassis was ready I paid

of the purple chalangra they'd usually find at a run-down convenience store in their shared dream, after an afternoon browsing the library of the phantom campus. They agreed to

but your mind crafts it. Stand here and you might hear one of your favorite 70s radio tunes. Over there it sounds like your dead parents fighting. You hear the mesh and your mind

g him dead on 5th Avenue. He didn't even bother to reassemble his splattered giblets before he boasted that he never ran, and that he wasn't dead "times 60 million." Minds imploded

go overboard for a parley with the renegade whale pod Baltika Baba Seven. Ludmilla stopped Captain Noroi's protest with a glance. "Sanjo, this mission is more important than any of

They looked at each other's eyes glistening in their hands and said as if to establish a rapport, "Keep it. It uses a standard Z23 interface." Simultaneously. That's when they both

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Rich pitched his Rich Bitch Blitz while blitzed to the hilt at the ersatz Ritz with Spitz, & a spit of spritzer in the mix.

I can't remember if I've explained my avatar. It looks like Laurel & Hardy, It is supposed to be Sein & Zeit. I guess it could just as well be Ignatz & Krazy Kat; Heckle & Jeckle.

It sounded to L like that sound, that one time, that he hadn't heard then. Still hadn't heard that one to this point. This one sounded like that one. But never having heard the one

"This was no coincidence," Inspector Detective Agent 2pi said, waving his hands around to indicate that the this in question was everything around them. "Orchestrated Serendipity."

The bamboozle was alive and kicking back with help of a film flam man and his grifter daughter, sometimes lover. They suspected but didn’t want to know for sure. He had been with

We arrived with a presumption that we used like a cudgel to the semblance of a civil society. Hobbled together means easily hobbled. History was more mercurial than we imagined.

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The lady's kid had turned the #6 into #666 when the waiter put down his pad and pen to play with the lady's hair. He used to be a stylist. Anybody looking closely could see they