- Page 3 and 4: Title Page Copyright Page Dedicatio
- Page 5 and 6: Who Could Imagine . . . ? SKELETON
- Page 7 and 8: THE DEAD ZONE “Frightening.”
- Page 9 and 10: WORKS BY STEPHEN KING NOVELS Carrie
- Page 11 and 12: The Running Man Thinner The Regulat
- Page 16 and 17: “The Mist” first appeared in Da
- Page 18 and 19: This book is for Arthur and Joyce G
- Page 20 and 21: Do you love?
- Page 22 and 23: “How do you figure that?” I ask
- Page 24 and 25: PS: There really was more beer in t
- Page 26 and 27: I spent that night in the guest bed
- Page 28 and 29: of course, the same thing as an aff
- Page 30 and 31: Bangor, Maine
- Page 32 and 33: smoking and looking across the sull
- Page 34 and 35: us. The powerboats had vacated the
- Page 36 and 37: ounce of grass that Steff and I bou
- Page 38 and 39: lightning seemed to be flashing all
- Page 40 and 41: the houses and cottages and summer
- Page 42 and 43: Branches, some half-stripped of the
- Page 44 and 45: could feel Steff tensing against me
- Page 46 and 47: owned and operated—after a fashio
- Page 48 and 49: From where we stood we had enough e
- Page 50 and 51: My dream of the night before recurr
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- Page 54 and 55: first time since I got up. My own s
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- Page 60 and 61: what the hell. I drove it up and a
- Page 62 and 63: “Have you still got the list?”
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“Well, don’t get too much sun.
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there. But it wasn’t anymore. All
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Steff up with his eyes. The two of
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squirreling impulse, apparently) an
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III. The Coming of the Mist. We wor
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excuse-me-ing and pardon-me-ing.
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were live lines down in our yard. B
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“Don’t go out there!” Mrs. Ca
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feet, and I picked Billy up. I was
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Trumbull. It happened so quickly. T
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A constellation of moons suddenly g
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Drayton, whose painting Christine S
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he pulls out the plugs ... little V
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his face against my chest and rocke
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landed behind me. I fell down, thum
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his eyes. He was maybe eighteen. Af
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as you can not to understand. This
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was going to call it off—and then
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it away. It disappeared back into t
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arms, paused for a second, and then
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leaning against a stack-up of beer
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But it wasn’t Jim. It was Ollie,
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“If they panic—” Ollie’s vo
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although in a blind, fearful way ra
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“Certainly.” He folded his arms
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that, I can promise you that man wi
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artist, and it’s your town. I onl
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glasses. His styled hair had gone a
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“I’ll take down plenty of names
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muttered among themselves, not liki
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VI. Further Discussion. Mrs. Carmod
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as it was his eyes, his haunted eye
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ad dream! Eyeless freaks! Pallid ho
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Talking about these things had a pa
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ahhhh-ing sound, as if they had jus
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vaguely that he had heard salt was
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Just beyond the window was a red be
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pair of glasses hung from an orname
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“And give you a chance to go on t
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tie it around something. It doesn
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Three-quarters of the line was gone
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and poultry wasn’t getting any fr
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He was eating a peach. Hattie Turma
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one of the other watchers let out a
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out of the fog and snatched one of
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dripping lighter fluid. I was emoti
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She was maybe fifty-five, maybe six
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had taken Norm. There was the fraye
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I looked over at Amanda. I was deve
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titled Beans and False Perspective.
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mine steadily. “What do you reall
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“Drink this. You need it.” I dr
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Arrowhead Project.” “But these
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She came over to me. I could smell
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Miller nodded. “Those pink bugs,
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have a little boy to watch out for.
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and-out precipice falling away into
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make it all better. Maybe me, or yo
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in the night, and his face had a ho
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me. “Do you really have to do thi
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want to listen up a minute?” A do
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sight. Only twenty feet, I kept tel
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The others took no notice. Miller h
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his flesh. That leg of his jeans ha
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It closed in on us, spinning its we
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hands, but she lost it. It went bum
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Otisfield and supported his wife an
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“I intend to get out or die tryin
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his pocket. “South?” he asked,
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ack to try to get some sleep) I saw
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the smell of spoiling meat that had
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“You and Cornell take the grocery
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was still over her arm. She began t
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and I were more than out the door h
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thumped softly against it. I was on
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feeling my way. Even with the Scout
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Anyway, at last I did the only thin
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“Don’t do that,” Mrs. Reppler
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Then Billy said, “Was it a dinosa
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In the manager’s apartment I foun
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Here There Be Tygers Charles needed
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(BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY)
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It was Kenny Griffen, smiling compl
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“I don’t know.” He didn’t,
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from his older son’s hands, grinn
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The attic began to creak softly, ma
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champions of the rodayo, Uncle Will
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have an artesian well sunk, and the
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Clap them!” The monkey only grinn
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the well, and one scruffy Manx cat
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starting to look scared. “You’r
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usiness, just like you always knew
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certificate, and there were stacks
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and closed, spread and closed, hide
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“—way to assert parental author
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weight had only been his pillow, cl
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stood on Bill’s shelf, seeming to
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crazy and they’ll find me in here
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(suspended) and lost his privilege
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knowledge that he had killed his mo
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Behind him, the TV snapped off. He
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Maybe it can be got rid of. Maybe p
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“Fine,” Hal said. “Bring the
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stunned by their mother’s sudden
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dropped away from his heart—he ac
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It was him. Hal and his son scrambl
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and selecting a fresh one with the
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her ruff and pattered down on the f
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lades began. The shore receded. Pet
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Studebaker lay somewhere below, thi
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off the left side of the boat, and
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“Come on, Pete. ” “What are w
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Cain Rose Up Garrish walked out of
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Rollins, the asinine floor-counselo
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forged withdrawal slip. He put it i
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aggletaggle softball game. They scu
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“Rollins! Rollins! Come quick!”
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not be bored for some space of minu
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It used to be that Homer never talk
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each other’s grain, if you see wh
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when the summer was over he’d dri
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“ ‘The way Worth goes—the way
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little bathroom and she stood there
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“ ‘You ready for the blue-ribbo
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what do you say?’ “She was look
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little Piper Cubs could fly on a cl
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was maybe fixin to paint somethin o
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sign that said MOTORWAY B. You ever
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had dreamed it wasn’t. All I knew
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as I did then. He sat there, lookin
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around a pothole in the road that w
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drunk would park it, and it was spl
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hadn’t come yet so I let myself i
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takes notes in committee meetings,
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place. That was two years ago, and
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door when he come down that path wi
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opening and looked a bit like a chi
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what he had,” Mark went on, “an
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mess—let’s let it go at that. I
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particle transmission. But to have
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lamp cord, for instance. It was mor
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civilians got nervous and wanted to
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NO. 2 on one of its sides, black le
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chronometer. Carune put it down in
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(“The mouse didn’t feel so good
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computer time or his supply of mice
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thermometer from the wall beside hi
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write a letter to your friend in Lo
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starvation in the 1990’s, only la
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change their names. Texaco became T
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were studied with great interest. T
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een any of the scientists who talke
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madmen who had Jaunted wide awake o
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“In a way,” he said. “But tha
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ecause he knew Ricky—Ricky, who h
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The Wedding Gig In the year 1927 we
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agpipes. When they aren’t tending
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protection money can buy. If anyone
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and kept saying. I went over to him
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crepe paper. There was a bandstand
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She went white and actually swayed
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proclaimed, you folks here better
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a phrase that makes me feel like si
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him. He was holding them in fists s
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horn case tucked under my arm and a
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they’ll start to laugh at you. Bu
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agonized, hangdog way Scollay had l
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I can see him from up here. His cig
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I don’t look in the mailbox anymo
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The Raft It was forty miles from Ho
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he knew that was true ... but in th
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something. He was aware that LaVern
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“Then let’s go!” Deke looked
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something that looked like a dog pa
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LaVerne. “God, I’m cold,” LaV
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wearing that same look of slightly
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called out, “Get away from there,
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Randy had fallen when Deke pushed h
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“You’re supposed to know, you
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“We wait,” he said. “Let it e
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a pathetic, loose little smile. “
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life and now his breath stopped lik
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Randy looked down and saw blood gus
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the raft’s bloody boards, and Ran
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His eyes were still open. His tongu
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was doing it), and then it went dow
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“Now listen. I’m going to put y
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“What are we going to do, Randy?
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leachers, girls in bikinis on the b
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were twisted into little shapes alo
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“Go away, please, go anywhere, bu
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Word Processor of the Gods At first
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His study was in a small shedlike b
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hybrid word-cruncher—” He shrug
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laughter became too sarcastic to be
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what it had to say on the subject
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had cobbled together. You might be
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“Just remember what I said. For C
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“Goofing off in his study, like u
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when she sees that Seth is gone? Wh
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as the Amana freezer that had repla
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Now, he thought. Now I will type: A
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The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands S
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My fiancée had died five months ea
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and hands and manner of walking, hi
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motorcars is amusing: the children
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name, although I should be pressed
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was good enough to sense something
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pay for teasing a little dog too lo
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locked doors. Pariah dog!’ “
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fool. Perhaps I’ll have a chance
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“Thank you.” “You’re welcom
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the faces of the others must have g
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“ ‘Really? How interesting.’
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nose an open, festering sore from t
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just like some swell from uptown, w
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Beachworld FedShip ASN/29 fell out
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close to panic when the fire broke
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held a note of awareness and concer
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the bunk, three closed hatches betw
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the ship. And hid from the beach. S
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you stop it?” Rand did not reply.
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perfectly tight. He sucked the litt
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his tongue. It was as shriveled as
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tongue. A man strode down it behind
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on our own burn, and right now that
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human die. A deep grinding came fro
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everything else, I’ve lost an and
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“Indic!” the captain said sharp
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to the empty, moving sand. “It ai
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collections in expensive cowhide bi
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statuary, frame-splintered portrait
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falsehood, exaggeration, and coinci
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Spangler paid no attention. He took
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going down the stairs ... then ...
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Nona Do you love? I hear her voice
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going to write everything down. May
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Eye, but you never get used to it.
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dare ask any of them.” She made a
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“No. Come on, shitheels.” I don
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mushroomed and I kicked him again,
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okay.” I had left my rawhide glov
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A high, wailing shriek filled the c
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smoothly. “One exit up. But that
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and my older brother Drake in it. I
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this day I have no idea what she sa
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On the fourteenth, Valentine’s Da
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Blanchette a final smile. I wasn’
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slipped out of my arms and fell ont
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he could push it all the way to 130
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cue ball. Ace came in around nine a
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oad. I never went back to the bowli
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idge stanchions. We went sliding al
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“What do you mean?” He came two
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I stood looking down at the cop, re
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and by pretty coeds who were going
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athroom stalls. I threw up amid the
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now, after what happened, we were r
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eat me up I never went there again.
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knew, I knew. The last test. The la
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For Owen Walking to school you ask
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Survivor Type Sooner or later the q
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Even then I was wrapping my hands b
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get my pencil sharpened. When I get
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January 29 No chow today. One gull
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No gulls today. Reminds me of the s
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time to time. The “jokes” were
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tomorrow. If the operation does bec
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Francisco flophouse called the St.
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I was coming around to help him whe
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disconnected from me, like somebody
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they couldn’t stand the horrible,
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thrown out like some avian general
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came off in my fist. Then I fell in
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But I won’t give up. I swear. Not
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Ha! Ha! Ha Feb 17(?) Took off my ri
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Don’t dare but have to. But how c
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Uncle Otto’s Truck It’s a great
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to purchase shares in it, I would t
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admission both of them were “shit
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in the way of making a dollar. When
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emember best is the truck looming u
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Schenck ended up, if you don’t be
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eneath the Cresswell’s tilted sno
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workman’s pants held up by suspen
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his table, smoking, watching me put
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frightened. My father fell ill in 1
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It was as if he hadn’t heard. “
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It smelled oily, like a garage. “
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where I had seen the Cresswell loom
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Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) The
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then he strode strongly up the walk
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empty chocolate milk carton with a
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overhead light. The bulb had been f
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PITTSBURGH 44. “Nobody is going t
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parted company at the minimum age o
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“Window on this side’s cracked.
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Stiff Socks! Whatchoo say, buddy?
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“She was the one with the—” H
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Bob sighed. His wife was waiting di
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“—and she just about had a hear
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about it.” He walked off the road
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eyed. “Since then everything just
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lower face. It did not touch his ey
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Gramma George’s mother went to th
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“And remember, Dr. Arlinder—”
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“—so I told her, I said, ‘Mab
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to the slurping sounds as she took
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Simard was one of her most faithful
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How should I know? Go to sleep! Sil
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they were, or where Gramma got them
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hadn’t broken his dumb leg, Mom w
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her saying once, and he didn’t kn
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make dinner in short order if Gramm
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same time stupid and triumphant. He
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after a visit to the doctor when th
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His heart was beating fast, but tha
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hair or pop a water glass into her
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eestablishing and reconfirming the
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stood out, perfectly on end, in a c
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REALLY bad, oh God oh Jesus help me
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“Ruth?” It was Aunt Flo’s voi
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so he could hear what his mother di
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suicide because of success, he said
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said. “Except for this one short
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hear.” He looked around at them q
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going up and his was going down. Sh
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file over quite often. No good, of
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“Thorpe’s typewriter started go
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an occasional bored college student
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jealous of Reg, would stop at nothi
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uncomfortable sideways look. “She
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in the dark, but I’m blushing. I
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own term) at the last possible inst
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the size of a house, and it probabl
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can’t light three on a match. One
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now. Reg. Thanks a lot. Reg. Fornit
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“Good thing he didn’t have an I
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I just don’t know, Henry.’ “T
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ad by then. I could hear the fluore
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God can you believe you’re making
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“His Fornit,” the writer said a
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and the little den where I did my w
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wanted exactly one. I exercised to
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talking literature, with Reg gently
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—“have been wondering why she s
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peeping down at me from the ceiling
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eyes I could see all those wires in
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I could not. The time had long sinc
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“I sat there at the kitchen table
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safest places to be during an elect
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“I felt ... outside myself. Unrea
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“I found the strength to get to m
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Pittsburgh. My Chevy was sticking o
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ain all the way from Paterson, New
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waistband of his chinos. “Except
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die of curiosity. It didn’t take
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etinas and make you blind. “ ‘R
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Rulin’s shin. There was a lot of
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choose to believe, I find I can sti
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Fall set in, a cold fall without th
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And they would say: “What, Gram?
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islanders and main-landers alike no
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een so young. “And you didn’t g
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where they went into the Reach shea
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would tell them that Alden had come
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nearly a week and then took to his
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Outside, the wind was picking up ag
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the entry. She put it on—the bill
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needs. Probably she’ll go, but if
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to help him put new sills under his
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cars passing to and fro on the Head
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planted on the crust but now she wa
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unmarked by the cancer that had tak
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She heard voices, but was not sure
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unattended, unusual death had shown
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easily nothing came. I began to thi
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sidewalk at the corner of Fifth and
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asking: “Son, are those traffic c
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not, and believe me when I tell you
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me; I enjoyed it. I always do. I ho