Finished Folds (261—280)
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4have mandibles a-plenty, they and I/and though we be not octopi/our tentacles are, you might agree, sufficient/and we invite you to our salon for tea/in this our cosmic sea.
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5"Oh, good grief! Please relax, you silly boney human blobby pants! The Martians of your system have been dead a long while. But enough about them." I wriggled against the
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3Andy Pakruto, former K-Mart employee (on the surface), held open that time-tunnel so that she could dodge back and get those appliance parts from the Des Moines Sears ca. 2014, but
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4pishly as he assumed his victory was assured. But the midlevel diplomat was also a scion of Amber, and so She-Ra's sword came forth from the clouds, at which The Champion conceded.
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5The blisters on his feet remind him he gave his shoes to some guy on the way. The staff in his hand feels good, but he doesn't remember when. His smartwatch is black, but Jerusalem
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4Like purple rain, like sparklers in a car wash, like the lapidary dance we did around each other in the laundromat dryer we call our life. Divorce papers, hmm. We both knew
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4otherwise I wasn't hairy enough except between my breasts. Luckily, Big Pharma had turned toward genemods as a cash engine, and my full-body thicket deterred the vampires, until
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6My nemeses (five by then) grumbled and smirked, contorting their freaky faces, mocked me with a boy-band version of "Stop! In the Name of Love" then charged. My Deflecto-Hands
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3a broken spider finding its legs again, and then found his strength. He smiled and blessed her with the sign of Uncrossing, then left to seek the pleasures of this world.
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6occurred to her that maybe his attention was elsewhere. Joe's hand twitched in acknowledgment. He was waiting for a meteor storm to cross his inner sky. "Fine," she said, filling h
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5A slumber from which Angus McCrikey ne'er did awake until that fateful late afternoon in 25,049 when
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5Trevor was one foxy young man, and he had what Welsh witches needed, but he was one of them as well, and you know what they say: the prettiest witches are the craziest. So when
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9"Hah" I told myself, "those dishes have been there for quite some time, haven't they?" Anthony Hopkins' voice in my head paused when "Boogie On Cheddar Woman" played upon the radio
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5to have ever known a Nobody, that everyone in their purview had always been a Somebody. "Right," said the Doctor. Nothing left to do but listen to the night.
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5Jam Palace and waited for the right moment. As a newly free bird, she had all the time in the world. The ambiance of meat-peeps and mesh of sound lulled her into a kind of
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4Heyman Boyd mused as the shuttle transited a dark matter tendril to another venue in the galactic mesh. "The words of the microflora are written on the ..." Meat travelers were mo
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9Hrengor the Beholder floated above his meditation mat, his tentacles in some vague mudra, the Cosmic Light blossoming within. His wife, Betty Bounteous, had mixed feelings about
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5Manatee tried to evade the needle. His thoughts so concentrated, he thought he might become the next Simenon. But the needle found him, and he plopped out of the sink, imprisoned.
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5to realized that she (Woab) forgot to memorize the detailed list of instructions regarding the proper and safe use of the space toilet. Meanwhile HAL "detected" a malfunction in th
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5The first sign baffled the world, but when the three stars of Orion's belt rearranged themselves into a triangle, both the skeptics and the credulous felt a deep unease. But life w