Finished Folds (921—940)
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2someone who would never, ever suspect they were home pretending, for at least two weeks, that leaving their high school girlfriend was a huge mistake. Valentines day admissions
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1anything but trashy novels, cigarettes with those long, affluent filters and men who ignored them. Turnoffs include nice guys, compliments and any man that isn't a complete douche
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1pregnancy. Presumably these were the palette, the media and the smock used to generate the necessary pornography to keep the
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2each on a day of Christmas. On the first day of Christmas, the CEO was fired and we all went home a little bit tired. On the second day of Christmas, the division was downsized
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1soil at the bottom. It could be sold to offset the costs of the asphalt that would replace it. No resource going unused, except for common sense.
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1banks like an old dog trying half-heartedly for a treat. The trees paid it no mind except during the spring and fall when leaves and seeds would drop down; miniature vessels for
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4in the cul-de-sac, and they were gone for the winter. The rest of us had defaulted or sold out under water once the recession hit. I picked up extra money watching their places
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4not-where-he-thought-he'd-end-up, Stan's hopes of making a difference were crumbling with his students' interest. Something was going to have to change. Maybe a minor outbreak
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1edge of the river. The water had risen more than three feet in the past month. Whatever was causing the melt up at the top of the mountain wasn't related to Eddie's love life.
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0she'd moved in with room mates, and then with a sickly genius with allergies. Pepper's sentence had been extended by circumstances outside her control, but she wasn't bitter.
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2coffee stained reports. Her eyes had lost the ability to focus from sleep deprivation, but the cup of coffee on her desk was grasping at the relay baton handed over from her last
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1deep caverns that hosted everything from blind fish to fortunes in metals and stones. The metals and stones were assigned arbitrary values by people with vast advertising budgets
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2bacteria in the swamps of Louisiana. Alex's intent was to put in enough work to satisfy his corporate sponsors while doing as much work on mutagens and reverse aging polymerase
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7My remaining strange mysteries also reside in my nooks and crannies. I'd pay someone to search for them, but the bible tells me such things are sins and should only be done by
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0dna. Base pairs twisting out of shape, becoming disjointed, like every conversation they'd had of late. Would it have been a relief to know it was an alien infestation, not
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1I know that if I'd been half the man he is, I would have succeeded. Before it can get too deep, I blame "Lie To Me" and start wondering how paranoid I must be to look for micro
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2remembering her name. I didn't get many best parts. I got a lot of "emergency" phone calls where I sprang out of bed shouting wildly about getting somewhere "stat" or "asap", then
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0board would be difficult to persuade. It wasn't that they didn't want to make money, but they were paralyzed with many paths and too little information. They stared at me, begging
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3a twisted tree that reached ominously in every direction. It was an optical illusion. A painting that followed you. The branches reached out at you, ever closer, even as you
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2The winds were picking up and the hurricane was coming, yet his brothers were out trying to save the crops and the livestock. They weren't heroes. They were protecting the only