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Maybe I can spark your passion. I will be putting random beginning sentences of books to inspire your literary thoughts. New Orleans, LA Joined June 2016

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6 years ago

See the child. He is pale and then, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves.

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6 years ago

They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

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It was a Wednesday afternoon in the fall of 1945, not long after the war had ended. The Greyhound made its regular stop in Meade, Ohio, a piddling paper-mill town an hour south of Columbus that smelled like rotten eggs.

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I AM BY BIRTH a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.

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HE SEEMED INCAPABLE of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him. And that was fine.

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The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."

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Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house.

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EDYNN hated that things had come to this.

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By the time he had passed Portland going north on the turnpike, Ben Mears had begun to feel a not unpleasurable tingle of excitement in his belly. It was September 5, 1975, and summer was enjoying her final grand fling.

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Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.

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In the late summer when the sun relinquishes its flame to the horizon, nights in Louisiana seem suspended in heat and darkness, bringing little relief from the clinging warmth that seems to radiate from the very earth at your feet and the air around you.

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Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.

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THEY SAY LOS Angeles is like The Wizard Of Oz. One minute it's small-town monochrome neighborhoods and then boom--all of a sudden you're in a sprawling Technicolor freak show, dense with midgets.

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6 years ago

I was driving a Lexus through a rustling wind. This is a car assembled in a work area that's completely free of human presence.

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See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt.

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The Treloar Building was, and is, on Olive Street, near Sixth, on the west side.

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There was once a woman who lived with her daughter in a beautiful cabbage-garden; and there came a rabbit and ate up all the cabbages.

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The two things Sarah remembered about that night later were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune and the mask. But as time passed, years of it, it was the mask she thought about--when she could bring herself to think about that horrible night at all.

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6 years ago

Boog warned me about Washington, but until I saw the rich lady set her pugs on the dinner table, I didn't take him seriously.

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6 years ago

and there in a consulting room designed, so it appeared, to inspire confidence and allay apprehension, made the decision which would lead inexorably to her death.