Finished Folds (21—40)
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1thought Xerenya to herself, half-heartedly lashing out with a weighted chain to brain the bandit sneaking up behind her. The last rays of the setting sun glinted on her oiled
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6ladder to the airlock. It would take me at least half an hour to suit up, but it would be worth it - I could taste them already. Suddenly, I noticed
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7it out in the watery light of the energy-saving fluorescent bulb. "Dear Jimmy," it said, "The batteries you have just removed
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1short, slender man with a beret and a horizontally striped shirt who made strange clicking noises with his mandibles. But as he walked, the cheerful yellow of the bricks faded into
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4but she didn't answer. He tried to switch the light on. The fuse box exploded loudly in the next room. He tried to leave. He walked into the door frame. He threw the iPhone to the
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2Silvia of Arishmendia, who had herself fallen victim to the debilitating ailment and bore its ravages on her once-radiant face. "There was nothing we could do, and when the polyps
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3God-King Arafakhanon. Legend had it that, when His Majesty had his tomb built, he had ordered all of the masons to be sealed within, so that they could no longer be free. But the
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6As the curtain rose on the opening night of "A Folded Story", Richard, watching from the wings, awaited his cue to burst in with a completely unexpected line. Suddenly, he was
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7As he sat there, fuming impotently, the cat in question padded up next to him and laid its bald head on his foot. His rage began to abate. He made a mental note to look up
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3Bungie... Suddenly an idea struck Gordon. He grabbed the espresso machine and ran to the window. Cursing silently, he clipped one end of it to a protruding valve and the other
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5But before he could escape, a shadowy figure burst from the shadows and somersaulted to the door, blocking his exit. "Well, well" it said, stepping forward into the light to reveal
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4of her sister and the ensuing trek across three continents, not to mention the breakup of a prominent smuggling ring, had left her drained, physically and emotionally. It felt good
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4An expectant hush fell amongst the Senators as Apollonius, his purple-trimmed toga billowing behind him, strode out into the center of the chamber. "Citizens," he cried,
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5When the wind howls through the sycamore on a moonless night, and the lonely travelers huddle around the guttering flames of their campfires for warmth, they say you can hear
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2and tragic combination of mistaken identity and unmitigated ennui. It was the sort of thing that happens once in a lifetime; nevertheless, the authorities swore
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3It was, she asserted, quite simply the most stupendously awful piece of cinematography in the history of mankind, if not the universe. I was inclined, I said, to agree, but
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4purest gold, mined in secret delvings in the jungles of darkest Peru. Oh, it would be expensive, but the fund was, after all, set up for just such an occasion, when we would need
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5waking up in the middle of the Churchill Downs, with no recollection of how they had got there, other than a hazy memory of wine, women, and a flat-out sprint against a grey
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4But first, there were the standard nefarious problems to be solved: schemes to be laid and plans hatched, minions hired and lairs acquired. And the most daunting problem of all:
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1to bleed from his nose, falling to the ground theatrically, as artists tend to do, even the odd ones like him. Congratulating myself on my subtlety, I turned to leave. But suddenly