Finished Folds (781—800)
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3The semester was only half over for Stanley Krider and he’d already written off his students this term. A tenure-track associate professor of biology at the regional campus of
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0Number crunching, it looked like the company could afford any of the options, but the
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2The geography of the area was working against the road builders of the 19th and 20th centuries, who were hellbent on draining the swamps to expose the rich black mucky
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3In the offices of the Allen County Highway Department, Construction Manager Michelle Schmidt was sitting at her desk looking at site photos and engineering schematics and various
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1Padding toward him, Julian saw Pepper, the dog he inherited from his niece, Kelly, when she moved away to college. They didn’t allow dogs in the dorms. That was 6 years ago and
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1Looks like there was more wet here now than this past summer, Eddie thought to himself, moving closer to the edge but fearful to get too close to the
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2Looking toward the west she stared at a small hourglass-shaped 4-acre black-water lake surrounded by waterlogged and stunted trees. Its water was gently lapping against the
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4With hands in the jacket pockets to escape the autumn chill, I walked briskly to the dip in the road. No traffic this morning. Hardly ever is; only the Rosentraders and I live
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4I looked fearfully at the small woods bordering his home and at the finger of dark water that jutted out of the overgrowth and barely touched
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2"Those stupid bastards," he half mumbled to himself. "What are they thinking?" He grabbed and put on his jacket and headed outside into the cold morning air.
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1As he read, the blood drained from his face. Almost reflexively, he looked over his right shoulder, out the window and toward the dip in Madden Road about a half block from his
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4Eddie sat in the kitchen, back to the picture window, using the natural late morning light to read the daily paper. He was supposed to be looking at the want ads, but
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2In nations like the United States, most enquiring eyes remain focused along the coasts or dwell upon geological wonders such as the vast mountain ranges, canyons and the
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6This world's remaining strange mysteries exist among the nooks and crannies of civilization.
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3have to do with my dual plight of male pattern baldness and the heartbreak of psoriasis? Plenty. You see, just the other day I was
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4If you want it cleaned right - you gotta roll up your sleeves, dive in and do it yourself. At least that's what my mother always
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5This has been my morning ritual ever since that the day it came back from the dry cleaners all stretched out of shape and with a peculiar odor I couldn't put my finger on.... But
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3I use oven cleaner and a brass-bristle brush on mine until all the blackened crust and rancid oily residue solids are removed. Then, I gently dab it dry with a ShamWow Shammie.
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0bobble-head version of Renee Zellweger was right out. Ever since that time
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6Those meds for OCD just got in the way and muddied his ability to see the patterns. They were everywhere now and it was clear that he had to