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She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
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poetic-prose
tragedy
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William Shakespeare |
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He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them.
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poetic-prose
running-through-the-woods
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Cormac McCarthy |
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They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.
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poetic-prose
poetry
sci-fi
war
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Dan Simmons |
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e2270bb
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Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.
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life
metaphor
poetic
poetic-prose
reassurance
recovery
wintergirls
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Laurie Halse Anderson |