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Random Read: ‘Salem’s Lot (Part 2)
Ben heard himself say remotely, “You gutless creep. You cowardly piece of shit. This town is still alive and you’re running out on it.” “It ain’t alive,” Parkins said, lighting his smoke with a wooden...
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Random Reads: The Eden Plague
[A nondescript two-lane] wended its way up into the central Appalachians, through towns with names like Cornstalk and Trout and Cold Knob, where bony women in faded pioneer dresses or worn jeans and...
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Random Read: The Gilded Chain
“Your return is timely,” the King repeated. “Commander Hoare frequently displays an inappropriate attitude to his duties. You replace him now as commander of our Guard. And I won’t have him as your...
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Random Read: Crash Into Me
Top Ten Athletes Frank Said Should Kill Themselves 10. Mitch Williams, Phillies pitcher, gave up the 1993 World Series-ending walk-off home run 9. Bobby Riggs, Wimbledon men’s tennis champ, lost tennis...
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Random Read: Crazy
My dad’s sitting up fully dressed with his helmet on in a tub full of water. His radio is plugged into the outlet above our sink, and it’s resting on the edge of a plank he’s laid across the top of the...
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Random Read: Crazy Season
The game started hopefully, as they all did, but the atmosphere felt off tonight. Rick wondered if it was Marty, or the week’s residue, but then he realized that the usual public-address announcer was...
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Random Read: Heir to the Glimmering World
“True heresy is neither rebellion nor rejection, and I tell you I have uncovered it in the heart of al-Kirkisani! It is refusal of every refusal but God’s, a new thing, a true thing! It descends into...
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Random Read: BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN
The depressed person’s therapist was always extremely careful to avoid appearing to judge or blame the depressed person for clinging to her defenses, or to suggest that the depressed person had in any...
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Happy Easter! Random Read: Virgins & Tricksters
The traveler is heading east, a half-day’s journey. A dozen or so people are meeting there to set out on a pilgrimage. There’s a new relic at the shrine of St. Aethellfaed’s just brought back from the...
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(Wednesday) Inspiration Courtesy of Marie Calloway and “Jeremy Lin”
“If someone says your writing has flaws or is good, that implies they know a concrete goal that your writing has, which can be measured in numbers, and that the number would be higher or lower if you...
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