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Internet: a means to scrub sincerity from the face of the earth.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

We know these Rothko paintings are important because Nelson Rockefeller actually owned one. At least for a while.

Eugene Bavinger, The Turpentine Blues.

“You are wrong, Elizabeth. Everything is embarrassing. Or, it should be.”

Diana Moone, Living Well.

“Call me Vivica!”

Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“I’m not asking Alexa a damned thing! I don’t pose questions to anyone or any thing that I can’t strangle.”

Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Stories.

“Everyone does his job, stays the line, contributes to the social order. Whilst you go traipsing about. That’s a parasite, Wilkins. Why pretend that you don’t know it?”

Leighton Johns, My Uncle Toby.

“My other sock is almost on,” thought Edward. And an exciting thought it was, too.

Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.

“It’s not that I am cold and aloof, and just don’t care about their opinions. No, it’s that I really don’t believe their opinions. I don’t believe that it all matters so much to them.”

Gwen Tunder, Vile Porridge.

Psychopath: a secular term for an evil person.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.