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ted--party me, AN excited--squeal from the direction of the pigsty. "Great, Cuz, you've got him all riled up. You know what you gotta do." She fluttered 8 pairs of lashes -
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"I should have realized it when that goldfish said his name was Bubbles," he croaked, then hopped off his pad in search of greener (algae) pastures. "My tongue is good for more
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but the aliens demurred. "We despise pies," they said. "Ever since some wiseacre pointed out that our home looks like a flying pie tin." I realized I had struck a nerve. "Okay, ice
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With a final push of adrenaline, I sprinted forward and snatched up the flower. "Sing for me!" I cried. "Feed me, Seymour!" the flower answered. I had made a huge mistake.
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I would be stuck forever in those desolate waters. I paddled desperately, but the shoreline grew no closer. In fact, my paddle in the water didn't so much as set off a ripple. Odd.
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he could settle down with. "Aw, Gary, who am I kidding?" he asked, caressing the snail's eyestalks. "I don't want a girl version of Patrick. I want Patrick." The forbidden words
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rather suspicious love for barnyard animals. Whatever, he'd been a great kisser, no matter who--or what--he'd practiced on. But getting back to Vern: seeing him on that plate made
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where a surgeon in his confidence would separate the Siamese siblings so that he could finally elope with the less evil of the pair. The procedure was a success, and by morning,
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"That does sound crazy," said Dr. Spangler, writing something in that little notepad of his. "This is quite the breakthrough, Edward." But I no longer understood or recognized him.
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showers. I never should have joined the Herbert West High soccer team. I'd heard that bullying was rampant among the undead, but I hadn't been prepared for their unyielding cruelty
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was their commander and cardinal. He cantered up and down the pitch astride a patchwork steed made up of rotting human body parts, primarily elbows. He carried a flaming bugle and
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She took one last look over her shoulder, at the land and all her loved ones there, smoothed down the folds of her tattered, ivory gown, and dove into the endless blue. Home.
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all he had in this miserable world, though he didn’t know it yet, and despite his fantasies of royal lineage and wizarding academies, they were actually shielding him from a much
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had proclaimed herself the Mary of her age, bearing not one but five little messiahs—a proper team of saviors for a flock accustomed to the infinite consumption of the digital era.
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" it fills all eighteen chambers of my heart with joy. And so what if he only has three eyes? I've seen veterans get along just fine with four. We barely use infrared anyway.
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had different ideas of safety, I tell you." She topped up her wine, letting it slosh out onto the table. "But why," Lord Pembroke asked, "haven't you just snapped the child's neck
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her fingers unfolded into razor-blades. She unhinged her jaw and unleashed a scream like cosmic radiation mapped to sound. "Well, that settles it," he thought. "Demon." He readied
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He watched her sink into the earth, toes first, then ankles, calves, and on up to her ears. In the end, only her hair touched the light, and that rose and waved like seaweed.