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Before he even stepped through the vast wooden gates, the massive stench told Freeman all he needed to know: everyone in Camp B was dead. He gripped his revolver and walked the main street, eyeing every window and open door, stepping over loose limbs and bloated torsos.
An eyeball here.
Strings of intestines there.
RageX had
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A writer, a nurse, a legal aide, and a bellydancer. This should be the setup of a dirty joke, Clancy thought, not a hiking party. Or what was left of it anyway, with Danger Dan, the party leader, dead, his lower half back on Earth, the rest miles back dissolving in amber.
A writer,
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“Wake up sweetheart. It’s the first Saturday in December! Time to find the perfect Christmas tree!”
Melanie groaned softly at the cheery sound of Jason’s voice, and burrowed deeper under the covers. She peered at the clock through one squinted-open eye.
Seven-thirty! On a Saturday! What possessed the man?
“Come on, honey. You need a good breakfast before
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Once, there were two tribes who lived in the great forest. In some ways they were very similar, but in others they were very different. It was their differences which the two tribes most noticed, so it is that of which we will speak.
The Yonleenz (for that was what the one tribe was called) spent
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Michael Moves In
Michael and his family just moved into their new house. They were busy all day unpacking the moving truck. Michael’s mother put his boxes of toys and clothes in the closet in his new bedroom.
“We’ll unpack these after the truck
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Moon base Jastrow Station had a problem, and Bandit knew she and Bucket had to fix it or be stranded. The question was who could be trusted to help and who was the traitor who sabotaged the station.
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I’m waiting for your voice. My trembling hand is so damp the phone could slip from my fragile grasp at any moment. Each ring burns in my ear and makes the washing machine in my stomach tumble faster and faster. After three rings, or it could be four, or forty, I
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Garlic, the toad came to visit Mamaw today.
My name is Emmy an’ I’m this many.
I stay with Mamaw . She’s sittin’ in that rocker, couple days now.
Mamaw allus says toads is lucky.
I ast Mamaw:
“Kin I kiss the toad for luck?” She din’t say nuthin’, so I did.
Her taste is where I got her
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Breadline
We’re lined up again today. The smell of french fries from the restaurant wafts temptingly up at us.
It’s a wonder that more stomachs don’t growl.
It’s the same desperate looking crowd – a few more, a few less perhaps but indistinguishable from any other day. I sniff hungrily at the odor of potato and fat. It
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This story fictionalizes Seattle of the year 2044, telling about an underground transit system laced with bubbleators, elevators that move up, down and sideways through a nework similar to modern underground Tokyo. A Jewish reporter and his daughter, who uses a hoverchair due to her disabilities, have an exciting underground adventure fighting white racial supremacits, finally getting rescued by a dear old Moslem
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