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“You could read a book at midnight by the light of him.”

Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.

“I’m tired of words being hollowed out,” muttered Jack.  “I’m tired of the internet.”

Griffin Poindexter, Particle Swarm Theory: More Stories.

“Anything but reality,” snapped Marko.  “Literally anything.”

Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.

A fading society will always present a healthy parasite population.  Look for the parasites.

Christopher Allyn,  Militant Vulgarity.

To be good at going to school.  That is what Bridget sought.  And that is what Bridget found.

Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“What you are seeing [today] is not what you will see tomorrow,” Alwyn proclaimed almost breathlessly.

Buster Kelso, Crimes Against Music.

Aldredge posits a world full of people walking around, each with a faint emanating radiance….

Thomas Bedlam, Jackdaws and the Problem of Speech.

Constance was in search of a way, a simple way, to help people avoid realizing how embarrassing they are.

Burdyce Goode, Wonderful With Dogs.

“We have no medicine for stupidity,” said Mr. Ackenthorpe, chuckling.  But he could not, for the life of him, recall the source for his quip.

Mildred Cummings, Murder and Poetry.