Finished Folds (981—1000)
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6"Worthless compared to what?" Josiah Cready contested in a hush, as Bertram Trundle "Esq" lived in pine-paneled solitude beneath his parents' house. Bertram and Josiah just stared
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6crickets a la crepuscule. Ixobeleq croutomangers emitted "I'm your boogie man" from their surreptitious spiracles, and poor ole Paul bobbed his head in the Atreides food court on S
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8"Could you hold this a moment?" the old witch said as she placed my heart in my hands. "Sure" I said as I fell on it. Her house and others on fire, Molten Man on the loose, it was
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6I am a Son of Amber, living in the wrong world. My Trumps destroyed, my smartphone dashed, my pow'rs enfeebled, I await my fate in this opaque and arbitrary excuse of a world, as
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7is me I thought as I endured the passage of time, localized and disconnected. Where's my damn implant? I hadn't spoken, but a guy with a guitar winked. "We can hear you, you know."
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3Previously on "Pagans in Space":
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2tanned and scruffy pets Jane had courted. What a sadly dichotomous love-life Jane led. The young men were delectable but lacked a neocortex, whereas the seasoned gents
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7Her craggy left hand shot into my chest and retrieved my throbbing cardiac organ. The crone cradled it in her tender, grisly palm. I fell to my knees. The body is just a chassis I
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3One typical night in the Loon and Harlot good ole Jez Osborne confided that he was, in fact, The Kraken. He stopped me before I opened my gob. "Believe you me, I'm awake. See those
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4Robin knew that Bruce might hurt himself one day with his Bat power tools, but for now he would stand by just in case. Ordinarily huevos rancheros would not be a crime scene, but
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1Chance finally offered some support. "I know what it's like to be an outsider." Jurtok flexed its spiroclasms. "Do you?! Do you really?!!" Jherelia observed from nearby yet afar.
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9Veselin Topalov greeted us in his sombrero. Despite our recent troubles and the troubles of our planet, his spirit of bemusement was a haven and a solace.
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6"Stardate Now. We have engaged the Directionless Drive. Set a course, Ensign Prow." "But Captain, we're already here." Ensign Tarekwa played along, but her mission from Section 31
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5There were times when she tired of looking so innocent and indecisive. Let them mock at the false branching of the ways, she thought, for I Am the Crossroads and the Crow, and they
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4by scraping by with a string of YouTube hits in the new microeconomy. But Joseph was a visionary psychohistorian, so he bumped off his dad so James Franco could dip his pen in the
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5The Prophet Efyualtuel stood in the desert of his times, and was silent. Desert wind blew, haters hated, chatters chatted, and the plastic did abide. But in that silence came to hi
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6he closed his eyes and spiraled the shuttle into the docking bay of his reluctant saviours without a sou to his name. When he came to in his new body, the nurse informed him that
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8Martha confided in her husky stoned voice which was refreshingly less constipated than usual that she put dried chickpeas in her beanbags and today we would build a cat loft out of
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5The Merlins and Morgaines and all their holy sisters and brothers of the poor sad Earth flexed their wings and sent their sigils and their blessings forth, to no avail. But still,
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5" I held up my hand. "Lady, please. Words without the letter R? My friends and I find Agrukhralikhrar to be agreeable and propitious." Something adjusted the place settings. She ba