Finished Folds (861—880)
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2Even she knew when we put the bookshelf together, that Twilght would go onto the shelf of shame on the lower right corner. It was ok to admit you read it, but never to put it next
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2Something crashed hard on the balcony. I looked out, but the light from the living room only extended a foot or two though the sliding glass door. The glass fogged and cleared.
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1Gloria breathed heavily as she sat and waited for me to notice. As dogs went, she had them all beat so I made the best effort to take her out before she started to leak. Damn dog
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3The tissues piled up on the table. The flu hadn't reached it's plateau yet but I couldn't stop to rest so I knew it would just get worse. I had a deadline and health be damned.
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5Pictures stared back at me from the piano. These people were supposed to mean something to me, but so few of them did. One or two I'd give my life for, but the rest were just
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3manuscript, nor any of those we'd stolen from other authors at the creative writing seminar. Not that any of them would ever know. We stole them in the future, then came back to
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3never fail to fail. Sometimes I wonder if I should just not show up to fight them to see if they screw it up without us, but changing history is no joke, even if it means I miss
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1a nun in church. If you tell me you're the type of person that prays every day, I'll be looking for your habit to slip up and reveal a g-string and a tattoo of Madonna licking a
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5grabbed my lawyer's phone and screamed into it that he should disown every damn one of them. He wasn't amused and took it right back. He'd been talking to a client who wasn't on
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1gave the best eight days of Chanukah presents to all of them, despite the fact that they were Catholic, and so was she. It was her way of teaching them about her dead husband,
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4every one night stand ended the same way at precisely 3:34 am. He crept in with a pan of ice cold water and laid it on a pillow just above her head. Then he grabbed her nipples and
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0plentiful bounty appeared Thanksgiving day as a pair or moccasins, antler coat rack, venison roast, venison dressing, and an all out attack from Rudolph and all of Christmas town
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2They stood at the altar, eyes locked desperately at their future, he already knew it was cracking at the edges. How many weeks or months before it unraveled like last time?
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4Pakistani who was helping the Afghan up after the toss. Everything about the place ached, and he wasn't an exception. Trying desperately to go back into the dream he'd just left,
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2waste and Dana is the consumer. Owen was found dead in Fred's doorway with Hap's gun in his pocket and Dana's knife in his back. The mystery felt closed at once, but when Owen
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1fell a coin into a slot. Its weight affected a tone which gave rise to a careful combination of force, numbers and waiting. Three rings. The circus began with a whisper and a click
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0your own children in every way that you remembered. At each turn undermining them with your own convenient inconveniences. Any request was manipulated into a timely punishment
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4Her implements were simple, but honed with a quality that only the best could afford. No cheap sand and cardboard. These were ground diamonds on stainless steel. Pigments and
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2Her regal gait, blinding smile, elegant might and bottomless blue eyes punished me with a desire so beneath her that I felt dirty even looking. The honey skin bathed in the flag
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3I stopped questioning everything. There are two things you can do when reality exists only in your peripheral vision. Go with it, or try to find the quickest way to wake up.