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  • To say Jim was odd would be a bit like calling the kettle black. Jim was no more odd than you or I. His oddness just came out in public, ...
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  • Margarite was struck with a vision in her past. She remembered a girl in school a lot like her daughter who used to pick on her. Using this memory to ...
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  • Yes I can. Watch me walking away. You will forget. You won't care after a while. You will forget my face, my voice, or that I even existed at all. ...
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  • His knowledge is dangerous. I realize tat this is because it matters to me whether or not he accepts me. It matters if he thinks I am smart, or pretty, ...
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  • What a day, and it's only half over. I've spent 10 years wanting something, but now that it's here, I'm somehow stressed that it's not happening how I'd planned it. ...
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  • It is a tasty thing. It makes the chemicals in the brain go nice and relaxed. The smoke enters the lungs and goes through the veins to the dopamine receptors ...
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  • Nell was halted in her tracks by his chilling question. Derek smiled, for he always had this effect on the girl. He could say almost anything and it would make ...
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  • He didn't feel the need to justify himself, so he let her keep staring at him. He said, "If you aren't going to drink, do you want something to eat?" ...
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  • Many princes followed her. It was something about the way she smelled, apparently. She'd heard that in whispers down the long corridors; her ladies gossiping no doubt. Whatever it was ...
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  • I haven't done this in a while, mostly because I've just been terribly busy, but I kind of feel like I need to get some things out and this is ...
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