They sat together in a corner booth of the most elegant hotel bar in town, just a few blocks from where he worked. He ran his index finger across the top of her hand and said, “I’m game for a nightcap in your room, but I can’t stay too late. I have a presentation tomorrow, […]
Juliana believed in monsters. She believed in the one under her bed, the one in the closet, and the one under the stairs. Happily, she also had a mother who could knew how to handle monsters. “Juliana,” she said. “Give all of the monsters names, and then they can’t hurt you.” Juliana named the monster
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Ginger stood in line at the grocery store waiting for Jeremy Kendall to complete his purchase. Suddenly, Jeremy said, “Dang it. Forgot toothpaste. Be right back.” He slipped past Ginger and the other customers and ran off for a tube of toothpaste. Ginger told the cashier, “Just put all his stuff on my tab. I
I Long before the Great Rains of Radiation, the people had divided into two races: the Hunters and the Heavyheads. The Hunters were a tall, handsome people – outgoing, fun loving, and athletic. They shunned the Heavyheads, pointing to their large ears, orb-like eyes, short bodies, slow feet, and their preoccupation with meditative arts as
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Herbie was a slow, heavy, dark-skinned man who kept himself clean and well-groomed. In the summer when the weather was warm, he dressed in cotton short sleeves and plaid Bermuda shorts, and he always carried a white handkerchief to clean his wire-rim glasses or wipe away the beads that constantly reformed at the end of his large nose
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I “I want to know once and for all who did this to me!” hollered Hugh Jackson III, waving his stubbed hands dramatically for all to witness (and seeming to startle himself more than the rest of us). This was the climax of a speech he had prepared for me and the local policemen on
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