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I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does...more

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She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and ...more

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They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

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But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even tho...more

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It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

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She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

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Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.

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I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

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Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

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Some days simply lay on you like stones.

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She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some ...more

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I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I spoke. She said when I was just a baby she had the...more

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Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case sh...more

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It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance ...more

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I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your ang...more