Finished Folds (101—120)
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3".deen ouy tahw tsuj m'I," it replied, and I drank. My vision blurred, and as the shot glasses giggled, I sank to my knees. The floor smiled up at me. ",pleeS" it suggested. I did.
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6why mom babbled about dragons in her sleep. Why she insisted my sister's wedding be heavily guarded. Why she talked about winter's approach in spring. My mom wrote Game of Thrones!
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4of criminals, Cpt Daniels wondered whether his all of his knowledge and experience could get them off the planet alive. And what about the possible life form the scanner picked up
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5a moment, then turned back. "I've only got a second." "It might take two," began the lizard, and the cockroach lifted a leg to stop it. "Second's up." Then he crawled out and away.
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2coding, and would probably make better spies. I pushed that though out of my head until midway through my interview, when I finally realized it was my cats they wanted after all.
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2Nobody thought to inspect the shining dust they had been shipped instead of fertilizer. So corn was left to rot in the field, and the next harvest glowed softly in the moonlight,
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2the creature in the back of her windpipe was the one who had instilled this new drive for success. Yes, the Xeroto was certainly directing her somewhere- but where? And did it have
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5on the virtual mule. "What if next we try that weird game your friend was telling us about- the old mock courtship ritual thing, where you twirl the beverage container?"
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1than the red wine that we had filled our glasses with the night before. They had never looked for Helen- who knew how many innocents they might let slip away? My fangs glistened
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4a great boost for my self-esteem. Two boys, both of them in love with me! And neither of them had any idea that my pretty face was really just a high-tech human disguise, or that
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2I wondered whether the blind man's note would lead me to the treasure trove of well-spiced delicacies I'd been searching for. Imagine: Uqbar, a city of cuisine so splendid that
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3"Don't worry," she replied, "I'm not scared of monsters." Her mother smiled and shut the door. She let her arm slide off the bed, and wrapped her fingers around the bony hand
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5it screeched, flapping its wings wildly. DJ Chef was distracted by the funky dance moves and head-bobbing, and his avian prey hustled to the window, momentarily forgetting that
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1desperately trying to finish their paper on a lifesaving new treatment for toxoplasmosis. The research studies they had cited were scattered through the disorganized piles, but
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6The ghost shot Tim an exasperated glance. "The only thing I can't stand is when humans make uneducated assumptions about the inhabitants of the spirit realm." Jenny had already
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73 million dollars embezzled from the company's accounts could be. Step 11: Reinvent yourself as a Mexican farm-worker named Javier. Step 12: Make a new life for yourself in
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1Bobbo watched the phrase spread through the cultural landscape. Its origins in The Tempest had long been left behind, and Bobbo, who had never been credited, was forgotten.
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1I could have been so wrong. They held a funeral for what little was left of her, but I'd already said my goodbyes. And I had doubts. I wanted answers, and I knew where to get them:
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5wondered whether his knowledge of toxoplasmosis in sea otters could possibly save him. Then he realized something: most infected humans showed no symptoms. Could he possibly be
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3They were almost human, a bit like stars, eyes full of sunshine and voices like dusk. And if their bodies were a little strange, their teeth a bit too sharp- what did it matter?