We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.
Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.
He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.
My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.
I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
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It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn't so much wilderness around you couldn't see the town. But on the other hand there wasn't so much town you couldn't see and feel and touch and smell the wilderness. The town was full of trees. And dry grass and dead flowers now that autumn was here. And full of fences to walk on and sidewalks to skate on and a large ravine to tumble in and yell across. And the town was full of.. Boys. And it was the afternoon of Halloween. And all the houses shut against a cool wind. And the town was full of cold sunlight. But suddenly, the day was gone. Night came out from under each tree and spread.
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
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On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.
The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5: 58 o'clock p.m. On 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.
They murdered him.
I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
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It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.
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