Finished Folds (1581—1600)
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1Lucy Goosey lived on the far side of town, where she made a modest living selling sundries and whatnots. One day a large white truck pulled up in front of her shop and two guys in
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3It was great to work for Timedocs. We went back to record, for instance, a day in the life of Tu Fu or Annensky, and the reactions their works produced. That was cool but we still
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3Jodar felt lost, like tattered shadows in a blizzard. To find himself he knew he must leave the whirling infoclutter that formed the trivial fabric of his life. At 5:00 AM on a day
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3The marigolds that year came from a darker sea. Goats died, cows shriveled in the field, and potatoes were greener than the hills. Seamus and Eileen stared into their "hope broth",
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4As I wandered through Azhuribad, a small woman with a wrinkled face and bright silver eyes ran after me with a bundle in a red scarf , brushing aside the young beggars. "Na!" she s
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5When Mrs. B. peeled the label from the can of beans to rinse it for recycling, she saw, in black marker: "aLbino gEcko A37". She gasped, then worried that her husband might have
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2Senator Jones didn't really care about the issues. Just gathering enough votes. But an angel shot him and he went mad with love at a fundraiser full of well-groomed sociopaths be
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2see if I could throw out the old stuff in the back of my fridge without disturbing the front, useful layer. But my right arm and hand passed through it all, and I could grasp n
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3mopped, keep it spicy, keep it real. Know what I mean? Got to be real. Space-hopping, localizing: either way, reality is where it's at." "I've got a family, but I can do this,"
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7"Commander Hungus, the Tsarnians have been trading in knock-off Krellex pseudopods." Quasi-XK7's blinkie lights turned pink. "And I lost a bundle on them." Hungus st
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5to find vintage Texano cuisine. The desert highway was deserted. I checked the rear-view mirror. Twenty clowns in the back seat cocked their guns. I slammed the brakes and
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6At first, Monty Trellis was excited about the tour to promote his new book, "Stalking: A Scientific Approach." But after a few cities he noticed the same woman turning up at each s
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3the golden hits of yesteryear and infomercials selling Motown classics as sung by clever sea mammals. I was lulled into pleasant dreams but woke in my lone dark cell. The guard
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5he had built it on Arcturus III instead of IV, which admittedly had better resources for temple construction, but
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5e us as a light rain began to fall.The stoplight changed from green to red as I pointed the 357 at it. I let the gun fall. I could feel everything: the two punks, the cop, the soc
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8my dinner with my claws. I shredded and munched with carnivorous abandon, despite the tickling mathematician in my brain that wanted to compare bone lengths. I ordered a mojito and
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7on the thighs with his Sacred Branch. Inasmuch as Ninjattorney was well-versed in verbiage but lacked integral training, Optimus Crime's smackdown made ninja stars and verbal darts
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4shredded my lungs just as I injected the antidote. My aux ventricles kicked in. I wasn't quite breathing, but I was alive. Private Gamz blasted the enemy drones. I crawled toward
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3leaking from his nipples might be a sign of disease, or a mating call. Jake decided to keep a positive attitude, and go shirtless to the nightclub, chest smeared with blood and gre
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7We used to ride our bikes through the abandoned transmat docks, among rusty girders, phasing freight containers and veils of shimmering screams. One time at night Jimmy rode