Finished Folds (2001—2013)
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7puddle soaked his canvas high-tops and hiking socks. "This day just isn't going very well," he thought as the fumes filled his head, "but at least it's unleaded." He squished on
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3The sky over Manitoba was the color of mackerel, surfing the wrong channel. The hibachi sizzled as Sandy MacPherson scanned the police bands, hoping that The Watercolourist
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4As I glided through the glittering fluorescent infoscape, I noticed a huge grayscale melée on the horizon: datahats, all shades and styles. Luckily the route to my quarry
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3Mrs. Bainbridge caressed the books as she removed them from the crate. She had finally obtained a complete set of Chalmer's "History of the Noodle Trade", the 1838 edition with
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4to multiply and trade places with the arms and legs of the people of earth. They lost themselves in the crowd and moved like ocean fronds in gentle currents. Schools of thought
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5but eventually rice crispies got soggy, milk went sour, and desire turned to regret. What if the killer was not driven by a sense of desperate urgency? What if the killer
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4Putin was proud of the man cave he had put together in the bunker below the Kremlin. Foreign dignitaries would always ask to hang out and play
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5So naturally I taunted him. "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are." The dog had the right to remain silent, but he surprised me with his calm eloquence:
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7The morning after, I had a patch of mildew on my right cheek and tender lumps of fungus on my scalp, but I felt purged and surprisingly cheerful. Even my co-workers commented
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4Clockwork Sally had returned to Oklahoma City. The officer was about to call this into HQ when
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5he listened for the Silence beyond all silences and relaxed into the mesh of the infinite. Moments or perhaps aeons later, he began to notice a sinister ground hum permeating
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3Jameson was overcome with a bittersweet brew of emotions as he began to reminisce about his first honeymoon. His bride had been working undercover field ops in
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7became unhinged and dealt him a blow on the head. "It's only physical pain," he announced to himself as he stumbled