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The kalesa halted right in front of my humble boarding house. I folded my newspaper and looked up from behind the front desk, just as the sound of the horse’s canter on the cobbled street ceased. The early afternoon sunlight, as bright as my lobby was dim, caused me to squint to get a better look at the two people disembarking from the upper carriage. All I could …
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Crouched down and hidden beneath layers of metal and concrete, I hear them approach. The slow rumble of a writhing mass of worms eats away at the rock and steal of the bunker. My heart beats a steady rhythm in time to their nibbling. Even if I survive, I fear the man I was will not.
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The heat of summer settled into the hills of Appalachia, the …
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If you look at city blocks from an airplane, there are way more squares then there are rocky diamonds. I remember this when I’m on the ground. And I did as I drove around searching for a mark. It’s not as easy as just finding the house with the most expensive car. The people who have all the money are smart enough to want to keep it. No …
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Her hair still shedding dust from the collapse, Carol Borgan speaks with a health department official who glances at the remnants of the small deli that continues to creak and break apart in front of them.
“I guess you could say I saw this coming,” she says. “My mother said I was crazy for even moving here, let alone starting a business. She said it was madness, that …
