Finished Folds (521—540)
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5witty and pointed response to my unexpected award was to release a new fragrance in my honor, "Crépuscule légumier", with a "basenote of watercress and a topnote of beansauce. I tr
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4..." And then the modem booted to life with a few beeps and a gurgle of static. "COSMIC ALERT: Something went wrong on Earth and we must expand to save the civilized worlds." I rea
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13shattered beneath the roast. The butcher and his wife knew that Jorge would sometimes drive problematic demons into bad meat as a kindness, but this had been a prime cut and now it
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5I had jumped tracks again. I had never married, not even to Joe, who didn't seem to recognize me as he stood in line with a bunch of artisanal broccoli. But I would treat this lady
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17As I lay dying on the road to Costco, I was passed by dozens of pilgrims, the holy, the walking ascended, in the world but not of it, their faces lit by their uplifted palms, resi
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5kind of fool did he take me for? At the urging of my dead granny, I agreed to the occasion of my planned demise, and went accompanied by Detective Manatee. My would-be killer
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3coins were out and wealth had gone completely digital, so I was laid off. I had no idea how I could pay my bills and still have enough to trade for low-end pleasure drips." Jerry H
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1"No, ma'am, we're not Satan-lovers, just seekers of truth. Ms. Widdershins, anything in the Overworld?" Carlotta replied, "Only a sense of avoidance, Detective Manattee." The sus
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4I asked grandpa Jacques for advice and while we were talking he inadvertently laid out seven entrees and 15 appetizers. "And never mind Google --no matter how you sprout, you are
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8On May 12, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Andrik Perrone was starching and ironing his shirts to prep for a new job. Then he started to think that it had been 3:02 for quite some time. He went
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2and on, long past the point when the needle bounced between the label and the groove, digressing as Jimmy did without addressing how to avoid the damage to be done. I died waiting.
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12Turgo Blipsis, the MP's assistant, watched his boss being carried out in restraints. Ever-cautious, Turgo had never mentioned the ghost cats that jumped on his bed or the mist that
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4It must have snowed heavily that night. At some point I noticed the nice texture of the city sidewalk against my cheek and the blanket of snowdrift that covered me. Hypothermia nev
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0But Pete got all eager to have a looksee himself. I had to knock him out for his own good. We didn't know sigils, but did our best and laid about 5 lbs of salt across the threshold
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2check herself and peek again into the rest of the house. Still uncertain, she returned to the beautiful room and sat in a chair. An old silver bell with a black handle moved toward
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2the boxes, including some sense of actually living in a healthy village. I stared at my sunlit coffee in despair. I looked up and saw my cousin Jeremy. "I'm dead," he said
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3The concierge bowed and withdrew from the recluse's door, folded paper in hand. He felt a tug in his mind, and a compulsion to deliver the story so far to whoever lived in 12A. Ma
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5from The Integral and my friend Dmitri accompanied me only grudgingly. "Great idea. Vodka, sprats and caviar -- enticements of the fallen -- are surely worth the horrors we shall
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12what the purveyor labeled "The Matter of the Minions" but was really just a timesnap of Lady Bargemore's maid purchasing a bolt of cloth. Moodle's Past Grabber had missed a more in
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4Terrence looked pale and emaciated as habitués of the VR do. He seemed to pity me for not joining in, but I made enough to keep myself and my cat housed, fed and healthy. My bike w