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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“…and you can convince them of absolutely anything, as long as it is false.”

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

“I’d rather look out my window than look at that damned photograph.  Hell, Bev, I’d rather look out any window!”

Jane Chetwynde,  The Have-Not Faradays.

A demon appeared to Kevin, on a cold gray morning.  And Kevin gave it a fair hearing.

Quentin Drabb, Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.

We have destroyed our culture.  All that remains is particles and their relentless movement.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

Why do people believe lies?  Well, for one thing, they want to.  They desire to believe them.

Raymond Sapulpa, Circus Giganticus.

“There are so many things that I don’t want to know, Jill.  Try to understand that, won’t you?  Please?”

Allison Terew, The Shining Shifting Things.

“I’m Rodney,” he said to himself.  “I’m all that matters.”

Nicholas Crisp,  A Suitcase Fell on Her Head.

The abbreviated expression “SDA” which appeared in the body of the missive was shown to mean “sleeping deeply again.”  At least that is what Brenda, the older sister, claimed.

Kiefer Sythe, The Detective Club.

“The Waste Land” presents an inventory of the pseudospiritual  bric-a-brac of early modernity.  Consider Madame Sosostris and her pack of cards.

Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.