Finished Folds (1261—1280)
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2In fact, I went all Shakespearean on my abductors, but the one who seemed to be their leader only replied with variations on "Caw", "Meow" and
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5Sarah Smith was not surprised by Dossier.com's latest change of privacy terms. "Let all my seekers find me," she mused, "and let them be well-prepared for when they do." She was mo
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5One cold night on old Mars, Jherek Manatee went down to the canal and began to croon: "I am a lone starfaring stranger, traveling through these worlds alone. There is no
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7As if in a trance, I steered my shopping cart into the strange gloom of Aisle 11. Moments later, a small smoky demon chomped on my leg then handed me its business card before it
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1King "Buddy" Tut admired the handiwork of his people: the stately cheesecake pyramid he had decreed, with a border of palm fronds and candy crocs. But cheesecake fundamentalists de
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2"Fractals et my dingo," Gareth said bitterly as his Romanesque apartment building started to look like a congress of trilobites. "Wasn't me, bro," said his friend Corwin with conce
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3e, which meant she even replaced her glittering new Hitachi Oculo 5000 with a golf ball and took her granny's manually operated Turkey baster. She was served endless cups of tea
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2My cat made me follow her outside to spend the night in her world. She showed me where a puddle of water was and left me a nice lizard, but let me pick my own place to sleep. Th
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5revival chambers, disintegration lounges and gourmet replicators from far sectors. Unfortunately the FSS Ghostwriter docked at Jherek Manatee Station just as the autochef rebellion
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5But he just lay there on his dingy mattress in the corner of the warehouse, scruffy, wan, perhaps forlorn. Unwashed. A user? I left his smokes and pickle juice
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4The searchlights passed - it was now or never. "Joe, I can't go out there," Steve said. "I glow in the dark. It was a thing in 2018." Joe glared. "OK, the rest of you - let's go!"
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3The day the Shunned struck back, a checkout scanner sneered at Mildred Dowd and said "Your record is too clean. We don't serve Squeakies like you." Mildred had her sword-cane, but
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6scones and pones. I pressed them desperately to my ears, listening hard, with bitter tears at the opacity of the world. And then I set them down, and heard the voice of the fridge
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5It's funny how language can lead to dreams, joy and delight, or bickering, vile bile, and the toxic ectoplasm gushing out of internet sewers into the comments under news articles.
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1taken her Tuesday AM pills. Sally kept her meds in a plastic container with 14 bins. Then the cabbage asked, "Are you sure you turned off the stove after you boiled the water?"
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7I was restless with creative frustration. I left my mind and went for a cappuccino. Strangely enough, the barista had a red beard and a tonsure. He showed me the tattoo on his pate
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5of Oreo test products. "Hmm, Playdoh Oreos," he mused. (Library Paste Oreos would have been better,) he thought. And then he spotted the Sriracha Crabcake Oreos and fell into a sw
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6Sure, there was Grandpa with his MS Paint art but I was crushed about the simplification of my eyesight. A few days later, though, as if in compensation, the soundfield expanded
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5"I burn the house down after dawn / It helps me to wake up," declaimed Kaka to his uneasy neighbors. His twin brother Kuku pressed through the crowd. "Bro, it's time to suit up."
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2Oh how we taunted the Mechanoids after they toasted all the organic creatures of the Seventh Arm. So what if they were post-organic -- we were post-material Hah! Mecha Master 2708