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The Scavenger Hunt
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Folies Meurtrières
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They Shock Horses, Don’t They?
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The first execution by electricity has been a horror. Physicians who might make a jest out of the dissecting room, officials who have seen many a man’s neck wrenched by the rope, surgeons who have lived in hospitals and knelt beside the dead and dying on bloody fields, held their breaths with a gasp, and Read more
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The Saints of Solana Beach
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Psychodontics
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On the Horizon
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Meticulous Preparations
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By noon on the twelfth of December the builders of the fort had completed their last meticulous preparations (and Roger had patted every inch of the ramparts to make sure that he could trust them to parade Parker’s standard along), but they did not actually cross the frontier until the thirty-first of January. Operations were Read more
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Bound and Stacked
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I lost the romance of this placeand woke up old. One darlingfantasy shattered over the next,folding over a fist drenchedin my hip. The Christmas treesare bound and stacked upoutside, the air can’t decidewhat to make of itself, and weare about to throw a presidentout. You are not your mother,and each of your dead lives onin Read more