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You Think It, I'll Say It

The journalist was born in 1964, which is to say she’s seventeen years younger than I am.

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The House Swap

Amber brings the coffees over and sets them down with a flourish, gesturing at the intricately piped pattern of white foam that spirals out geometrically.

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Private Princess

Cracked leather touched rich soil.

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Skin Deep

I wondered when rigor mortis would set in, or if it already had.

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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

I’m running and running and running.

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Texas Ranger

I push my boot against the gas pedal, and the needle on the speedometer surges past one hundred miles an hour.

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NYPD Red 5

There were only four words beneath the tattoo of the Grim Reaper on Aubrey Davenport’s inner left thigh. But they spoke volumes.

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Ready Player One

Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

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The Female Persuasion

Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wilhelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture

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Leah on the Offbeat

I don't mean to be dramatic, but God save me from Morgan picking our set list.

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Eve of Man

On the first day no one really noticed.

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Neverland

Speaking with Doc had gummed up my thoughts and left me feeling guilty.

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Mazarine

I hadn’t heard from Maya for two and a half weeks.

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Love, Simon

It’s a weirdly subtle situation. I almost don’t notice I’m being blackmailed.

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Paper Ghosts

“Who the hell are you?”

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Never Greener

Fergus was getting tetchy.

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The Darkness

‘How did you find me?’ the woman asked.

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Letters to Iris

Mornings like this morning were Iris’s favourite kind.

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Women in Sunlight

By chance, I witnessed the arrival of the three American women.

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Panic Room

I feel safe here.

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A Brief History of Time

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.

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The Monk of Mokha

Miriam gave things to Mokhtar.

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The Line Becomes A River

My mother and I drove east across the flatlands, along the vast floor of an ancient sea.

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Skin In The Game

Antaeus was a giant, or rather a semi-giant of sorts, the literal son of Mother Earth, Gaea, and Poseidon, the god of the sea.

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