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[...] Watching Alex move his eyes over the pile of objects …
“Please,” she told Coz. “Don’t ask me how I feel.”
“All …
There was a pause. Yellow light scissored through the leave…
I notice Marty looking over at me kind of hesitant, and I s…
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By now it was late September; I had tracked the passing day…
After two days of reading, I had tottered from the library …
But we were grinning. There was no sense of failure; only t…
Why didn’t I urge my friends to bring me casseroles and gro…
A few months ago, he told me, a booker at Elite had spotted…
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She sat on the floor, away from the charcoal couch. When Ky…
At twenty-three, Phoebe’s brother was a millionaire. The se…
Faith kept glancing at their father, fidgeting with the str…
“I mean she does it for you. That wildness? Come on, Gene. …
Their father slapped her across the face, his palm making a…
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Looking down made something go easier in Danny. When he fir…
Danny used to get a weird feeling, overhearing this stuff w…
But that wasn’t Danny’s line, that was Howie’s. He was head…
Bottom line: Danny didn’t know why he’d come all this way t…
There’s the door, she tells me, and points. Why don’t you j…
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“I prefer ‘screaming,’ ” Alfred said. “Sometimes twice in a…
“She’s the opposite of incorrigible. She’s making amends.”
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I’m aware that, in the telling, my love affair with Janna is…
At dinner he hangs back, watching the rest of us laugh arou…
By the time the sun nudged at the mountaintop, we were high…
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logy »
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(adjective) designed to avert evil
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in a slanting or oblique position
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“They have the chair,” Eddie said, “and she needs it.”
H…
When the lunch whistle blew at eleven-thirty, she was itchi…
Your supervisor doesn’t mind you going out?”
“He likes m…
Anna ate her spaghetti and meatballs with her eyes fixed on…
Angels are the best liars, that’s what I think,” Nell said …