Finished Folds (561—580)
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1"I have in my hand The Last Burrito." He paused for effect as he displayed it to the TEDx audience. "This, ladies and gentleman, is The Burrito of the Eschaton." They gasped and st
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1to tell me that the library would be closing in 15 minutes. I explained that the fate of the world depended on my finding that last inscription. The librarian threw me out.
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2quotidian after that, doing the necessaries, listening to the news and discussing the entertainment of the day, feeding Tootsie snacks when she played with her alphabet blocks.
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6Asher Korovin's heartfelt painting – the result of cosmic emanations filtered through his transitory self – "The Brooklyn Charbucks" never caused much of a stir. Nonetheless,
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5Grady looked at the Fishlad. The Fishlad looked at his girlfriend. His girlfriend brandished a large knife. The Fishlad looked at Grady. "OK, the buffalo eel then. Is it Japanese?"
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1"No, that gate was built in the year 899 in memory of King Alfred the Great." Alistair Obvious wasn't so good at this kind of fencing, but his Olympic training master Melissa Peel
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3Amanda Widdershins woke with a shock to find her estranged sister Carlotta sitting on her bed, staring at her. "I saw the shadow of the Manatee here," Carlotta insinuated. Amanda b
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6took it on a silver platter to the Hill of Truth and summoned his guards. The Mandibles of the Apocalypse surrounded the Hill under the full moon and gazed upon the red velvet cake
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1It seemed that green apple wouldn't budge and my face was everywhere. My right hand was alien and the left invisible. I adjusted my bowler and thought of making a pie from scr
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2although a tingler crawled up my arm, I stayed seated. Let someone else take the shot, I knew. But by that age I had implants from Samarkand and "a few flowers and all the stars
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5eager, too perpendicular, too much of a Belieber in that moment, Ed explained to his campfire comrades, and so he left the mushroom ravioli alone while the chicken ravioli clucked
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7mingle at parties, work together, torture each other with artificial mental nonsense, and dine in cafeterias, in some of which some unincarnate voices form in the murmurous hubbub
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5Sam looked at his little brother Andrew with sad, strange, distressed, and to some extent enigmatic eyes. Sam caught the 12:05 to Chatterton, to his new employment as
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5In marigolds appareled, he entered the throne room of the Lizard Lady Queen. "You know that I don't like marigolds," she snapped. "Now put some clothes on." Gurfo Mettra disc
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3Toffler and Brunner on tap, but at this stage of the game they had no idea which way the sheep were looking or what Future Shock meant these days. The hung-over Kibbutz presenters
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4presentation of Mayan-symbol crackers enlivened the party as some of the guests arranged them in novel configurations and asked the Mayans what it meant. Veggies were absent, as we
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2Andrei Jeromesh was tired of being incarnate, of walking down rain-wet carbonate alleys where there might be doors but no safe havens, of pattern-scattering laserbots, of NPCs who
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4business card. "If anyone is interested, please call me." Nobody came forward, and the Guru left dejected. But a few days later, Isaac Perrin sent a message by unusual means. The G
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3gust and scattering of leaves, as of sounding owls or a bicyclist pack, there came a spirit to greet him. "Nice legs!" Startled, he looked around, then sprinted wooded trail
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3"Dad, it's gone, please accept it. We'll get you a nice table with sturdy legs." To prep for the next weekend the son threw an old pink blanket over the space where the table had b