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“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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The target, the target. I had little to go on.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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Your thoughts trek to all the points of the compass, but still that twist eludes you
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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Not for the first time, the solution came to him in the middle of the night
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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How many people who turn on a light understand the generation of electricity?
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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For seven years, dead girls came to my office.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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The Neanderthal’s dog had been barking all day.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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The water is pink, the blood seeping into the crystals.
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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His watch was a large, solid Breitling which he wore in defiance of all the advice he’d been given...
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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Haut Graves became hot graves, in his mouth.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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Once again, Joseph noticed the anger in his friend’s eyes.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 15
3 Stars
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"What happened when all their illusions were stripped away and revealed for what they truly were?"
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
4 Stars
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Life's roughest jokes don't have punch-lines.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
2 Stars
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Goatees, beards, sideburns or any other creative types of facial hair were strictly verboten but the employee handbook said I could have a mustache.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars