Septimus stared at the scraped and bloody snow at his feet. It took him some moments to reply. “I mean…” he began slowly. “I mean that if you go through life and never face a situation where, in order for you to survive, someone else has to die, then you’re lucky. That’s what I mean.”
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Without warning , the patient leans forward slightly in her bed . With her eyes still closed , she spews green and black bile out of her mouth, splattering her hospital gown and hair. She falls back against her bed . Her sister grabs tissues off a table in the room and begins wiping around the patient’s mouth. My mouth opens and won’t close . My heart is galloping . I feel like I just witnessed an exorcism.
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“I can see,” Miss Emily said, “that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at
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Shocking Tattoos I was standing in the driveway, casually discussing the possibility of renting part of a house. The prospect of entering into a situation
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“She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster
Continue reading »‘How shall I put it, to a brain so much smaller and less clever than mine… The thing is, we are all, in a sense,
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