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Not Quite Dead Yet

Dead gray skin, rotted away to show off the stringy sinews of muscle below. Sunken, rubbery sockets around sparkling hazel eyes. Those were actually hers, though; they moved as she studied herself.

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One Night in Paris

It happened to people, this longing, emerging from an unknown void, grabbing the soul with a firm hand, the urge to simply let go and sink to the depths of the ocean.

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Silvercloak

The Killorans’ front door changed color depending upon who knocked.

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The Girl with the Suitcase

Elizabeth Manning had long since finished her pot of tea in the Lyons Corner House, but she was reluctant to go back to her hotel because it was good, free entertainment watching people coming in.

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The Last Tiger

The colonial rule of Japanese on Korean people was ruthless and devastating.

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Maori Millionaire

Your mindset is foundational in building wealth. With an aligned mindset, we can then focus on the strategy.

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The Good Losers

One of the first things I saw on induction day at Levin-Bell Rowing Club was a bare bum.

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The First Gentleman

Cole Wright is sitting in the rear seat of a black up-armored Chevy Suburban, one of three in a convoy speeding its way down Route 125 in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire.

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The Soldier's Daughter

‘When are you going to let me kiss you?’

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A Different Kind of Power

IT WAS A STANDARD BATHROOM. 

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Atmosphere

Joan Goodwin gets to the Johnson Space Center well before nine, and Houston is already airless and muggy.

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It Should Have Been You

I have to kill my sister.

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A Beautiful Evil

The king of the Gods demanded a beautiful evil - and so I was born.

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Dreamslinger

Today was going to be revolutionary, Aria Loveridge thought as she got out of bed and reached for the metal-fibre gloves from her bedside table.

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1985

“Just before midnight yesterday Greenpeace boat the Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Auckland harbour.”

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Rytual

Hers was the second dead body I’d ever seen, not counting my mother’s.

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Wandering Wild

I’ve never feared dying.

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The Girl and the Ghost

‘Let’s buy a chateau’, they said . . . ‘It’ll be an adventure’, they said . . . ‘You’ll meet a prince’, they said . . .

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