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the passenger...who bears the coin that Charon holds legal tender
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Right away, like toadstools, there were crackpot theories. The first: that kids out on the lake dock, against fire department warnings...
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I made myself tiny as I could, imagining I was Houdini shackled underwater, holding my nose and practicing my escape...
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“Little Pig, Little Pig, Let me in.” One of them yelled out from behind the door. The wolves always loved to taunt him, itched for any chance they could get to fight.
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It’s downsizing, not a reflection of his work, the boss had said before sending him to wipe clean his cube.
Though someone had wiped clean his computer already, and he wondered what had happened to the picture of his kids that used to fill the screen.
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He lost his patience and began ranting and raving, angry that he had to come home every night and feel like he was being smothered by a pillow. “I can’t make it stop,” she said. “I can’t make myself stop feeling this way.”
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“Who says?” she purred in reply
“They all do” he countered smiling , chewing on an ice cube
“All of them, huh?”
She leaned forward, raising a wicked left eyebrow and whispered,
“And just who are they, anyway?”
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Will wondered if Doobie was afraid that it might be nothing but the abyss waiting on the other side, but he promised Doobie he’d let him pass on if it was finally his time.
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They could have heard a pin drop in the car for the rest of the ride to her house, where she looked at him one last time and found nothing admirable, nothing memorable about him.
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“They’re Rocky Mountain Oysters,” the blond said. “Fresh. You’ll absolutely love them Jim.”
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This is what happened today.
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Never could figure why it was necessary that scientists get those little two-inch golf pencils to write with.
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But Jeffrey was flabbergasted and couldn’t explain to the officer why he was speeding. All he could manage to get out as an attack of Tourette syndrome hit were nasty, flamboyant obscenities. The Alabama state trooper wasn’t amused.
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The war ended. The roadhouse closed.
In the headlines: Jonestown.
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Picture a scene: Catholic School, circa 1987. In a well-ordered classroom full of future secretaries ...
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