Finished Folds (361—380)
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9re with at least some meager amount of satisfaction in the story yet to unfold, or bitter yet familiar disappointment? Player 2 was so moved by the previous fold that he could only
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6dark stars within our own hearts, take them out, say our goodbyes, and place them in the plastic wastebasket at the front of the bus. "Sit the hell down, all of you, or I'm driving
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5halliwiggins that had been drifting through the kitchen. The halliwiggins was used to this by now. It went outside and changed to its five-giant-celery-stalks configuration. She fo
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4unmodded naturals, among the last of that generation, and we had no idea how our attachment to external television would conflict with our desires to become distributed beings.
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2"I heard of 2018," said Marlena. "Is that a number or something?" Marlena was clearly not long for this world, aphrodisiac spam be damned. A young Romanian chess player gave her so
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6their Scrabble tiles in the Ouija Room. "You aint lost your letters -- I got them all right ere" said the planchette, eventually. The prophecy of the successful FOLDINGSTORY could
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6of thigh and we waited on the thunder, my uninvited guest and I. "Get out, you!" I shouted. "I'm not that kind of guy!" It left and I never slept again. Then it started courting me
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6. Aunt Cray commanded: "Matthew Brackwell, you shall keep your feet on terra firma, or there will be hell to pay." Cray helped her psi-blind sister Caleb pick up the groceries and
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13headed for the river it was a solemn day for both of us. I could see she was torn between kindly reluctance and expectant exuberance. Jenny turned and said in her new rhino voice,
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6"I suppose you might expect some reference to Shoes of the Fisherman," the Chinese leader offered during our desultory lunch at Lucky Dragon. The interview was going better than
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5med and a single crane flew overhead. A woman coughed behind him. Anna Grigoryevna, he was sure of it. After some careful interpretation of that cough, he turned to meet his fate.
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5alberd in the closet, rinsed off in the shower, and dried my feathers under the heat lamp.When I came out, the rest of my party asked what an owl like me would like as compensation
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5or at least an instinct for detection.
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5Merin Tarbolom debarked at gate 15D and was of a mind to ignore the chained protesters, but in a fit of pique he said, "Houdini had sense to keep lockpicks in his nethers," before
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5son is restful, as they are grounded and have the patience of trees beneath the stars. They breathe the same air we do but they do not tweet, nor do they judge. Beautiful people s
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6led the stratosphere. Some wear its tattered shreds as cloaks whereas others sometime just like a small piece in their soup. Some are trying to sell everyone else at a discount. Mo
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4I was feeling somewhat self-conscious by then, but Geometry class would be safe. Unfortunately I opened my locker and saw a note someone had slipped in: "Something is going on."
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7colored by the signs of shops that had closed hours ago. The woodcutter and Pinocchio drove on into the outer darkness beyond the town. The Buick's radio only captured fragments of
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5Mrs. Jennifer McGurk was halfway through a quiz in a 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan snagged at a garage sale when she said, "I've had my fill of this turkey. I need beef and a salad."
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9It was strangely the highlight of my life, watching that zombie bluesman play the guitar and sing that song. Many partook of my brains soon after, and I hope the song lingered in