Connecticut
Reach
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boat
key
death
outside
late
waits
eve
sequence
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Cleopatra
daughter
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tell
city
music
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radiation
talk
healing
geode
Dresden
And buyers? he asks. For you every word is also another, isn't it? she asks, not unadmiringly. I suppose, he says, I hadn't thought so. Yes, he should have said instead.
When his children were young their friends feared the basement of their hundred year old house, its stone chambers summoning scary movies, most first seen on television. He didn't have another word for television.
The image of unseen reptiles aswim beneath the trash and detritus of the starship and suddenly surfacing in a thrash has easily replaced the claustrophobic cellars of Poe's amontillado.
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