14 Folds
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"Turn the music up," he shouted. She could hear his voice through the thin walls of the apartment complex. Who was he shouting to? The music suddenly got .... -
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has the robotic legs, even if they didn't quite fit. That's what you get when you find automated body parts on Freecycle. You never know who had them before you. Still, there was
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the pop tarts were gone.
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and let's not even start talking about whether or not they are human, because then the story might get really convoluted. Suffice it to say that
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In a second, I was on my way. It was then that I realized my terrible mistake: I had forgotten to lock the foldable jet-skis. The center gave way and I began to
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one could be when faced with an army of tiny alien ants. The only response was the one that hit his brain like a tsunami. Run, damn it, run ...
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Opening the book, I saw a piece of paper flutter to the ground. It was the odd, but familiar, markings that caught my eye. I reached down and picked it up. Sure enough, it was
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"Nothing like this ever ends well," she said, holding onto my arm. I squeezed her hand. "Maybe this will be different," I answered, but I knew
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He grabbed a shoelace and began tying them together, although it felt as if the more he tied, the more shoes that fell ...
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When you're the squirrel, you never really wonder. You just dance along the telephone wires and bury a few acorns. This, he realized, was different. There
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attention of this hooded creature now before him. "It's not time?" he asked, not wanting to know. "No," the thing murmured. "Not yet. First,
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safety belt strap secure, only to realize that her pocketbook was on the cement landing. It was too late. The roller coaster took off and
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I can't say I was surprised. In fact, I seem to have remembered reading about something like this in a novel. Something about clues unfolding one bit at a time
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switched to Irish Whiskey, the whole thing would be clearer. "You got any?" I asked. He shook his head. "Now, about that
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involved an operation that required delicate skill. He stared down at his fat fingers, said a little prayer, and got to work.
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Octopus! I should have know that's what it was!" The question now: what to do about it?
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by the sound of the Doomsday Machine going off. And then, our world faded to black.
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keyboard? It took me some time to figure out. I ran through the list of names and realized, with a start, who it was. It had been him all this time.
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and begun to sell hot dogs and hamburgers. They must have hit on something special. The line of people eager to get in to the places extended down the street.
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the couple who came knocking one night, around midnight. She was pretty, in a mousy kind of way. He was thin and scared-looking. I opened the door anyway, thinking