Finished Folds (41—60)
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3with delight. I saw my mistake at once: I'd just made it clear to them that I was turning to art merely as an escape from a job I found unrewarding. So much for reinventing myself.
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5endured the raids, drove them out, and paid with my life. The pain, the fear, and the bitterness were overtaken in short order by shock, catharsis and enlightenment. I was reborn.
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1through, for the Lord's vision was clouded with unspeakable appetite. The deer, sensing an impending death, was so seized with fright it teetered on the verge of a heart attack.
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2She pulled out a blister pack of tetracycline, an adequate acne-busting antibiotic that didn't rise to the Clostridium-killing potency she had wanted, and gave it to her daughter.
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1with frightful vehemence. And in doing so, he had spooked his father. With razor-sharp beak, the father dove down and chased him as if possessed, cutting him down in midair.
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4those deer." The son glowered as the mother continued her tirade, unaware of the resentment she had just kindled. Soon after, he left home, married a man, and never looked back.
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3In a vocation that had produced the likes of Antony Hopkins, Michael Caine, and Daniel Day-Lewis, the specter of elevating a closeted pedophile was hard for her to swallow.
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4into the sea below. Some truth to that. As it happened, they fell down head first, as if diving. At the surface of the water, their skulls crumpled at first contact with reality.
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1I was underwhelmed. A race to the bottom wasn't what I had in mind when I signed up for this job. My face must have betrayed me, for she then turned to me and gave me a whack in
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3as a secret retainer to America's largest underground society, one that controlled the nation's sewers and water treatment plants. Dr. Kissinger wasn't thrilled to get paid by such
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6carpets, much maligned for triteness but surprisingly useful for everyday tasks. Soon, my grandson was zipping around town on a flying carpet, no longer glum when asked to go to
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3her head completely severed, her limbs strewn all over the train track. Normally a timid person, she knew she couldn't afford to be, not tonight. This photo of her foretold death
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2culinary expert on all things meaty by one newspaper, only for another to ruin his career in an expose in which he was seen in a seedy diner chomping on a greasy-looking hamburger.
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3My training as a fishmonger took over. For all the blood Audrey lost, she looked remarkably fresh, her flesh resilient when pressed with finger, her skin a metallic sheen.
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3It was one of those ancient skeletons you saw all over the cemetery, its skull cracked with age and covered with moss. What made it unusual was a square hole in the temple.
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3To save humanity, there was but one option: leave Earth and settle on Mars. In 25 years, SpaceX had built up it capability so much that it could launch rockets to Mars twice a day.
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5made the concoction taste like chicken, only tastier. So much tastier that, in time, nobody ate chicken anymore. Chickens were let loose and they roamed free. All told, 5.7 billion
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4host said, "Too much inertia, too lazy. When I was alive, I couldn't get things done if not for my wife's nagging. Now I can only drift about." So much for the fabled haunted house
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3eggs Benedict right away." She walked back to her quarter and took to twitter: "I joined the Army to fight, not cook." Before long, she took to the skies, joining the Air Force.
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1"How much?" Slaves R Us' owner was thrilled---not letting customers see everything only whip up their interests. Yet for all these foot traffic, no one bought a damn thing.