Finished Folds (1281—1300)
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6they looked at each other and said, "No more dynasties." Then they heard the deep chuckle of Rasputin3. "Dammit!" said Lenin17. "Betty my dear, I know you were sent to kill me, but
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1to the extra-clean bathroom that the B&N tourists don't know about. "It's okay, said a voice from a stall. Scan it and put it on YouTube if you like. The Cosmos can handle a few mo
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1Dr. Frankenstein looked on in piteous illumination as Igor carefully laid out the body of poor John Keats beneath the Monster's platform. "For his negative capability," Igor exp
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4John Bronner soaked the antique newspaper with brandy and struck a match. "The Daily Gazette used to tell us stuff. It didn't tell us what to see." He let it go. He let it all go.
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6toward Medicine Bow. The sky turned toward evening and the stars came out. I strode between cities and cultures and villages and silences as I walked the Earth. One time I met
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2I hit the ground even before the command was given. As it turns out, Our Commander in Charm glided in on a drone and pardoned us from death by Utah firing squad. "Today, we are all
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4I'm glad I met my friend Josiah Toast. He was clearly a shaman, even though he only had supreme skills in mundane card magic. It's not just that he provided cover for the rest of
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4lather, scream. My mother had died when I was twelve. So what was this? Had she returned to tell me to clean up my room, my house, my life? Without a word, without a hug, she left.
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4and flailing, screaming, then ... flying. The abyss had no bottom. The particles of my being sparkled like a crust on my true form. The hornèd doctor was right, I thought, as I fl
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3I was trapped in a cage of my own device and could not find the key. My sigils were empty gestures, my will a stagnant pond. I went through the motions of a mundane life, hoping to
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6to carp about the situation, but he handed me something and said, "Calm down, chum. When fish are falling from the sky, the best thing to do is put this tarpon." Then he croakered.
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3Hogwart's could be a source of bitter pining, or in some cases -- mercifully -- not even a landmark in the overworld of their imagination. Mariela Chastain, for instance, had been
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7man could not compete with the cat man when it came to the curvy ladies at the Trattoria della Sera, where
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2Sergeant Planetarius. Galacticus opened his maw. "Great idea, G!" said Sarge. I'm full of artificial cheese flavor and would give you cosmic indigestion. Besides, us outsiders
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1recharge himself (and the thought that he was unwittingly well-charged added to his worries) and more importantly, he would have to know which "updates" to skip. His friend Adrian
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4time, and the little birdies will fight you for it! But if the shadow of Mama Bird ever falls upon you, you had better just leave your beard alone.
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1and took him to Joe's Diner for a coffee. It turned out the toothy guard was named Mutt and was even more of an outsider than Sam ever was. Sam never expected
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4I learned there was yet another underground of which the general underground was largely unaware. For a while I thrived upon a certain distinct pleasure in knowing that, until the
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4:05 Martian time on a certain day they felt a calling, and so they wheeled their motorbikes around a certain tumblebush on the frontier, had some vittles and conveyed the teachings
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5When Joe finally got his Hibachi-Trantor deck back online, his brother Mark kicked him in the chimichangas. Mark was tired of Joe getting all the storylines. He took the deck and