Finished Folds (541—560)
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2In retrospect, that shadowy nether region found the alewife and her husband to be such disappointing appetizers that it turned its attention elsewhere for a more fulfilling buffet.
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2My favorite VR world ejected me after 10 hours. "You need exercise, proper food and undisturbed sleep." All because I had never upgraded my body or gone completely digital like
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2Mayonne Kirpl laid out her silverware just so. TBH, it was just ordinary flatware, but she wasn't expecting werewolves or vampires for dinner that evening, just a microwave lasagna
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3Starship NX5-231 was conveying her human research crew through the Tergulian Sector when she detected the faint strains of Joteo Prang's cover of "Starfaring Stranger" on channel
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5It seemed to take ages for Holmes to finally tell the amethyst dragon, "Yes, I'd like that very much. We could visit the Rosecrans Metro Silver Line Station, or whatever you like."
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3man walk down, before you can call him a cab? I'd been following Joe Greaves through alleys, fields, crossroads, abandoned shopping malls -- yet he strode on with a purpose in his
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4"And apparently I am to transcribe every draft," Dad continued with forlorn humor. He showed me Mum's manuscripts, the galactic timelines, the Tanith-Lee-meets-Dostoevsky webs of
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2At yet another funeral for Holmes, some grimy urchin, far from its squalid ward, addressed me. "My dear Watson, it seems I am become to some extent an hermaphrodite." Astonished, I
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3her eyes, the Xeroto that had reconstituted itself in her brain told her she would live to see many splendors, even if her guy and the rest of the town succumbed to the water-borne
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6In the wan light of morning, thunder rose behind me. A few golden leaves drifted at my side, the side of my dagger hand. My hands were empty; my conscience clear. The False Emperor
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5dainty or accurate as my mosquito foe, and so one had to apologise to some extent to Lady Maribeth and Uncle Alistair as one wielded the anti-mosquito chainsaw. Luckily, my br
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5"We interrupt this interruption to bring you this potentially very important announcement."
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2see those words, written on paper by the hand of a blind man, so nicely formed and well-spaced, about the hidden city of Uqbar and its best eateries. On the flight from Bangkok,
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1and decent music, leaving him stranded in the parking lot of an abandoned mall. The sky turned green, his phone was dead, and yet he had a strange kind of hope, and so he walked.
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3One brisk spring morning at a Parisian trottoir as he sipped his coffee and read the paper, The Kraken was accosted by a musician on a bicycle. "How dare you despise the Kaiju! How
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5Carlotta Widdershins looked around at the old farmhouse from which she had evicted her troublesome goody-goody sister. "Good," she thought. But the gloom in the northwest corner r
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4So he changed things up. Sure, he had some alien DNA and a few upgrades, but he still self-identified as human, so he decided to use the humans-only restroom at work for the first
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9I knew that giraffes hummed to each other at night. Maybe that's all our teacher needed. But my friend Barton (whom I regrettably had bullied earlier) heated Teach's rifle with his
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6was a four-eyed crow in communion with the Owls. Haymitch got nervous and ran from the scene of the murder. The four-eyed crow tried to stich the dog's wounds, but
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4My friend the Vorlon barista said that coffee was not what I needed. "You have a hole in your mind and a hole in your heart. A bagel and roasted bean sauce won't solve that." He ha