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Airborne: A Symposium

Metempsychosis: or, The Journey of the Soul

Freeforall

Death by Clamshell

85% of Death by Clamshell: "What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to pain a naked woman in distress, always of interest to a certain kind of man."

Bad Teeth

Impatient Griselda

33% of Patient Griselda

"This was very alarming, so Patient Griselda said yes, and the Duke scooped her up onto his... I'm sorry, we don't have a word for that, so the translation device is of no help. Onto his snack. Why are you all laughing? What do you think snacks do before they become snacks?"

The Dead Interview

My Evil Mother

Morte de Smudgie

Two Scorched Men

First Aid

Reading resumes in the new year. Shit. What were they doing before my reading break?

Adding "go to outer space and choke on vacuum" to my list of insults.

Daneel remained calm throughout—but, then, he could not do otherwise—and assured her that all human ships could dock with each other regardless of difference in size and make.

“Like human beings,” said Gladia, forcing a smile, but Daneel made no response to that.

'What's "shee-it"?' Arkady asked.
'Two scoops of shit,' Rodney said.

Pineapple 💔

Man was not born criminal but fell into error through unfortunate circumstances or the influence of negative elements. All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudice or inherited depravity.

So many times knocked up

Or... brunch.

A sort of shadow-self, perhaps: a Caliban, a Mr Hyde. A creature motivated by all the nasty impulses and hungers the conscious mind had hoped to keep hidden away: things like envy, and malice, and frustration ...

The subliminal mind has many dark, unhappy corners, after all. Imagine something loosening itself from one of those corners. Let's call it a – a germ. And let's say conditions prove right for that germ to develop – to grow, like a child in the womb. What would this little stranger grow into?

Something finally happened!

Did every book and TV show always use to have characters who've had a miscarriage or become pregnant? Have I just never paid attention?

Some historians have even argued that persons of that age are especially suitable for such escapades, as the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.

"archaic cursive"

The stories have slowed down... zzz

At the time I thought, Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that’s happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you’re safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn’t waste time crying before.