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Day 6: This planet is quiet. While surveying a sprawling, dying forest, I came across a number of ruined structures among the treetops. There were still a few rotting, crumbling bridges spanning the spaces between the branches. Everything is brittle to the touch. Though I occasionally see animal life, it moves listlessly, picking at under-ripe fruit and dry leaves. The whole planet seems to be dyi

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	The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008: 100 Flash Fiction Stories Selected from Edf's First Year, September 2007- August 2008 by Jordan Ellinger (Goodreads Author), Camille Gooderham Campbell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Smethurst (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Every Day Fiction Three by Camille Gooderham Campbell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Smethurst (Editor), Carol Clark (Editor) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Every Day Fiction Two by Jordan Ellinger (Goodreads Author), Camille Gooderham Campbell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Smethurst (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Faces, the Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction: Issue #13 : November 2010 by Frank Byrns (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Adams (Contributor), Ian Thomas Healy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Child of Words Issue 2 by Bill Olver (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alexander Burns (Goodreads Author) (contributor), L.B. Sedlacek (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

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“When her daughter asked how it felt to go to work with Republicans who were still denying the election results, (Anna) Eshoo offered one of the most wrenching comparisons imaginable. "It feels like being in the same room with your rapist.”
― Alexander Burns, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

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“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
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“Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
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