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d1563b4	Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!	fantasy fantasy-world good imagination mental-illness psychology recluse world	Rebecca McNutt
de3efa9	What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a ver..	air best-friends blue canada cape-breton children colored crashing cut depression flashcube friend friends friendship fun funny glass glitter green greenhouse growing-up house kodak love noir noise nostalgia nova-scotia red scarecrow sharp shatter smile sorry stained-glass trees vandalism vibrancy waves whispering wind-chimes yellow	Rebecca McNutt
c6d85ed	The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have un..	career earth earth-day environmentalism go-green green hippie industry-decline job manager newspaper nostalgia pollution print recycle shop smog	Rebecca McNutt
5ba1edb	Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary... but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.	attorneys chance fate law legalism legalist philosophy vigilante	Rebecca McNutt
97c866a	Where would we be without our painful childhoods?	depression humor humorous pain past psychology sad sad-but-true trauma	Rebecca McNutt
6f35fe4	She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria s..	nervous-breakdown new-york new-york-city posttraumatic-stress-disorder september-11-attacks trauma twin-towers world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
5dc8a7b	Every day it's something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they'll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peop..	digital film led-lights memory mental-illness microchips minds nanotechnology nostalgia obsolete retro sinister technology telephone	Rebecca McNutt
9d07045	Everybody has magic, it's just that most people either don't know it, or don't believe it.	fantasy magic powers sorcery talent wizardry	Rebecca McNutt
4d6cb72	It's not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You'd probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it's not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it's all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can't get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They'll both clash whenever you least expect it, and ..	attorney bar-exam law law-school lawyer legal legal-system life morality	Rebecca McNutt
2b4c45f	Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.	canada cape-breton little nova-scotia photography picture prett smile sydney-tar-ponds	Rebecca McNutt
7d7144c	All sharks were born swimming.	ruthless shark sink-or-swim swim	Rebecca McNutt
a7191c9	I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid,"..	bribe car cash dead death die dying engagement engagement-ring frantic funny garage grim-reaper hat-box lexus money sad tragic under-the-bed weird	Rebecca McNutt
8b619ff	He felt like the world didn't want him, like he was born hated, and he was. He was smart, he was funny, he'd never done a bad deed in his life, born innocent just like all the rest of us... but he was black in a white world, and I think somewhere along the way, he stopped feeling like a human being.	bigotry dehumanization hatred prejudice race racism	Rebecca McNutt
e7776f0	Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped," Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to s..	briefcase buddy car cash disgust fly glasses hipster hot-dog leather lewd library money professor unzip window	Rebecca McNutt
02d9443	I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.	american-history dreams motivational people society world	Rebecca McNutt
d42d0f0	Do you mean Y2K? The Enron Scandal? In devastation there is opportunity, you know!	business-quotes devastation enron enron-scandal new-york new-york-stock-exchange opportunity y2k	Rebecca McNutt
cb623f8	He didn't remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn't as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried... and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth's wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive... but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind.	alive death fear green life memory pain suffering worry	Rebecca McNutt
b30f0bc	So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked. "Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?" "Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be... well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime... I loved it."	angst city crime crowd love new-jersey pollution teenagers travel urban	Rebecca McNutt
93fbd3c	Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth's awful behavior," Mandy suggested with optimism. "The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn't murdered us both yet," said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless. "Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?" Mandy questioned. "Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce," Alecto responded in a quiet..	christmas cigarette comedy gift going-green hoiday humor lettuce miracle mother-earth murder present vegetables	Rebecca McNutt
7025e83	He was the only one who seemed to realize that she didn't want to be left alone to her trauma and bad memories, even if she got annoyed when he inquired about her life. She hated to be all alone, a paradox considering she generally disliked people.	misanthropy post-traumatic-stress-disorder	Rebecca McNutt
ffe302a	Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. "...It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?" she asked. "Oh, not really," said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. "I'm going to be forgotten by someone who I can't forget, though. That will be terrible... but maybe it's better if she does forget me altogether."	forget friendship listless lonliness love memory sad sadness	Rebecca McNutt
948182b	I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."	depressed disappointed expect friendship never pessamistic sad worst	Rebecca McNutt
8235210	I think we ought to find something else to do," said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project." "I like it. It's got that let's-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance," Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed."	ambience art better-days cape-breton diner drowning fifties friendship funny kitchen love nostalgia nova-scotia parents pollution retro	Rebecca McNutt
4018931	Through a large field that had turned a dead yellow after an early frost, past the multicoloured clapboard company houses and through a flurry of fabric hanging from clotheslines... after a few minutes he stopped at the edge of a high cliff, where a long time ago he'd been able to see the mine towers and orange smog from the steel mill way off in the distance, and he'd been able to stare for hours at the periwinkle-coloured ocean waves cras..		Rebecca McNutt
733cf38	Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forge..	confusion death depression fear friendship grief grief-stricken help hope lonliness loss love memory pollution remediation removal uncertainty	Rebecca McNutt
ff44d29	I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.	first friends friendship guardian-angel love person type worth	Rebecca McNutt
14fcaf9	Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast," Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."	35mm-camera brother canada cape-breton christmas coal fake family nova-scotia photography siblings sister snow snowball-fight wicked-blast	Rebecca McNutt
c9831d7	Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?	close death life reading	Rebecca McNutt
a2c2f3d	One man, an investment banker from Cantor Fitzgerald, took her to see the viewing deck like a good Samaritan since he felt sorry for her, and... and it was like flying, she could see the entire city, she could see the top of the clouds and the ocean, the pink and purple of the late sunset, and he told her, "it's the closest we can ever get to heaven! These buildings connect everyone together like a big community!" "If this is the closest p..	cute heaven investor september-11-attacks september-11th twin-towers-angel-investor world-trade-center	Rebecca McNutt
6b9c2b8	Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...	dead death die dying grim-reaper heaven hell life	Rebecca McNutt
bf81d56	Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn't care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn't just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, ..	digital future future-shock home-movies integrity kodak lonliness movies nostalgia photography popcorn projector retro super-8 vintage	Rebecca McNutt
3fff438	Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. "...Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way," she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. "Aren't you scared?" "I'm you, Geraldine... I fell into the same trap as you, anyway," Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but..	apology dead death depressed depression die dying emotion eyes fear forlorn forlornness friend friendship guilt gun high-heels kill lonliness mental-illness purse regret revolver tears trap usurer	Rebecca McNutt
75a6320	Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.	finance greed money	Rebecca McNutt
fef62ac	there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion... just decency.	law morality philosophy religion science	Rebecca McNutt
e4c945c	7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn't the only adult ordering one. For some reason or other these old-fashioned restaurants always seemed to attract old ladies ordering strawberry Jell-O with whipped cream, truck drivers ordering "worms and dirt" (chocolate pudding with Oreo coo..	adult bounce businessman canada car cherry childhood desert diner growing-up kid memory music shirley-temple snow swiss-chalet wind	Rebecca McNutt
31331dd	Like weddings, funerals are about unity. Funerals are the unity of a person with the sweet hereafter, assuming that one believes in such a thing.	death dying funeral graveyard living mortuary undertaker unity wedding	Rebecca McNutt
0eaec6c	There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naive at times, she wasn't stupid.	conversation friend friendship insane insanity mental-illness ordinary personification psychology talk	Rebecca McNutt
acfd3d5	I can pretend it's all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life... what a trade-off!	life pretend sad trade trade-off vow	Rebecca McNutt
644075a	Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he'd told himself in horror.	america-sings casualty debbie-stone disney disneyland horror sad tragedy tragic	Rebecca McNutt
349cf3d	It's true, I guess, that no matter how much it sucks, you're supposed to sacrifice things for a friend. It was a concept that he hadn't understood earlier on in his life. In elementary school, Bernie had been assigned 'Charlotte's Web' to read, and he'd always found it selfish how Charlotte the spider gave everything she had to Wilbur the pig, all her time and energy trying to keep this pig alive and off the farmer's dinner plate, only to e..	friend friendship love pop-culture pop-culture-reference sacrifice sharing smurfs	Rebecca McNutt
ac132cf	When your friend who died was still alive, did you ever tell him?" "Tell him what?" "That you're... what's the word? Celibate?" Tony asked, trailing his fingers along the buttons on the remote control but not really finding himself able to change the channel. His name, his daughter's name, it all could've easily become a statistic, an obituary, had they not left the tower when they did. "I'm asexual, not a celibate," replied the lawyer, "an..	asexuality attorney carpet celibate lawyer television	Rebecca McNutt
4b1465b	Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he'd jabbed a sewing needle into the helium Mickey Mouse balloons of at least twenty kids before a park worker dressed as Cinderella finally called security. "Disney's a greedy, bloodsucking corporation," was Bernie's half-assed excuse. Tony wasn't sure that ev..	cinderella corporation disney excuse funny kids needle swear weird	Rebecca McNutt
36282ff	And what if the other kids laugh at me?" Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. "I have a Cape Breton accent! They'll know I'm from Canada and they'll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!" "You're really overreacting," Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. "Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries ..	canada cape-breton funny girl joke morning nostalgia nova-scotia parents pittsburgh polar-bear school seal stereotype teen teenager united-states weird wisdom	Rebecca McNutt
f44d1e7	The lawyer was a short, ugly, little man. He stood about three feet taller than his desk's two foot eight inch frame and he had dark eyes. Lois couldn't tell if they were black or an extremely dark brown. His hair was dirty blonde and very messy. He looked as if he had just crawled out of bed. His white button up shirt was tucked in on only one side and the other side hung out freely. He wore a pair of tan khakis and a pair of black loafers..	crawl creepy frumpy funny khakis lawyer lazy loafers pants sleazy unprofessional	Rebecca McNutt

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!

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Rebecca McNutt

de3efa9

What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a ver..

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Rebecca McNutt

c6d85ed

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have un..

career earth earth-day environmentalism go-green green hippie industry-decline job manager newspaper nostalgia pollution print recycle shop smog

Rebecca McNutt

5ba1edb

Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary... but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.

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Rebecca McNutt

97c866a

Where would we be without our painful childhoods?

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Rebecca McNutt

6f35fe4

She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria s..

nervous-breakdown new-york new-york-city posttraumatic-stress-disorder september-11-attacks trauma twin-towers world-trade-center

Rebecca McNutt

5dc8a7b

Every day it's something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on books will be all in the past because they'll all be available electronically. She says that electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars. She says that something called drones will be used to watch the entire country, she talks a lot about something called nanotechnology, and 3-dimensional printing and cellular phones being implanted into peop..

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Rebecca McNutt

9d07045

Everybody has magic, it's just that most people either don't know it, or don't believe it.

fantasy magic powers sorcery talent wizardry

Rebecca McNutt

4d6cb72

It's not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You'd probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it's not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it's all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can't get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They'll both clash whenever you least expect it, and ..

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Rebecca McNutt

2b4c45f

Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.

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Rebecca McNutt

7d7144c

All sharks were born swimming.

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Rebecca McNutt

a7191c9

I've got money!" Eve exclaimed in a frantic frenzy of hope, her eyes dancing wildly with the notion that there was some way out of this. "I mean, I don't know what use money is to the Grim Reaper, but I've got a ton of cash! It's in a hat box under my bed! I've got a bright red Lexus in the garage, I've got my engagement ring upstairs, it's real gold... there must be something we can trade off with..." "You can't bribe me away, I'm afraid,"..

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Rebecca McNutt

8b619ff

He felt like the world didn't want him, like he was born hated, and he was. He was smart, he was funny, he'd never done a bad deed in his life, born innocent just like all the rest of us... but he was black in a white world, and I think somewhere along the way, he stopped feeling like a human being.

bigotry dehumanization hatred prejudice race racism

Rebecca McNutt

e7776f0

Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped," Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to s..

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Rebecca McNutt

02d9443

I'm convinced that a few people are going to stand up and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.

american-history dreams motivational people society world

Rebecca McNutt

d42d0f0

Do you mean Y2K? The Enron Scandal? In devastation there is opportunity, you know!

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Rebecca McNutt

cb623f8

He didn't remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn't as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried... and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth's wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive... but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind.

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Rebecca McNutt

b30f0bc

So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked. "Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?" "Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be... well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime... I loved it."

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Rebecca McNutt

93fbd3c

Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth's awful behavior," Mandy suggested with optimism. "The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn't murdered us both yet," said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless. "Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?" Mandy questioned. "Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce," Alecto responded in a quiet..

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Rebecca McNutt

7025e83

He was the only one who seemed to realize that she didn't want to be left alone to her trauma and bad memories, even if she got annoyed when he inquired about her life. She hated to be all alone, a paradox considering she generally disliked people.

misanthropy post-traumatic-stress-disorder

Rebecca McNutt

ffe302a

Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. "...It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?" she asked. "Oh, not really," said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. "I'm going to be forgotten by someone who I can't forget, though. That will be terrible... but maybe it's better if she does forget me altogether."

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Rebecca McNutt

948182b

I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."

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Rebecca McNutt

8235210

I think we ought to find something else to do," said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project." "I like it. It's got that let's-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance," Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed."

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Rebecca McNutt

4018931

Through a large field that had turned a dead yellow after an early frost, past the multicoloured clapboard company houses and through a flurry of fabric hanging from clotheslines... after a few minutes he stopped at the edge of a high cliff, where a long time ago he'd been able to see the mine towers and orange smog from the steel mill way off in the distance, and he'd been able to stare for hours at the periwinkle-coloured ocean waves cras..

Rebecca McNutt

733cf38

Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forge..

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Rebecca McNutt

ff44d29

I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.

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Rebecca McNutt

14fcaf9

Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast," Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."

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Rebecca McNutt

c9831d7

Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?

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Rebecca McNutt

a2c2f3d

One man, an investment banker from Cantor Fitzgerald, took her to see the viewing deck like a good Samaritan since he felt sorry for her, and... and it was like flying, she could see the entire city, she could see the top of the clouds and the ocean, the pink and purple of the late sunset, and he told her, "it's the closest we can ever get to heaven! These buildings connect everyone together like a big community!" "If this is the closest p..

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Rebecca McNutt

6b9c2b8

Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...

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Rebecca McNutt

bf81d56

Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a projector, but though digital cameras were convenient and cheap, Mandy didn't care. Super 8 had integrity, it wasn't just nostalgia, it was art, it was history, it was a little recording medium that somehow possessed the power to evoke lost memories, ..

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Rebecca McNutt

3fff438

Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. "...Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way," she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. "Aren't you scared?" "I'm you, Geraldine... I fell into the same trap as you, anyway," Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but..

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Rebecca McNutt

75a6320

Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.

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Rebecca McNutt

fef62ac

there's no better system than our own morality, not law, not science, not religion... just decency.

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Rebecca McNutt

e4c945c

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn't the only adult ordering one. For some reason or other these old-fashioned restaurants always seemed to attract old ladies ordering strawberry Jell-O with whipped cream, truck drivers ordering "worms and dirt" (chocolate pudding with Oreo coo..

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Rebecca McNutt

31331dd

Like weddings, funerals are about unity. Funerals are the unity of a person with the sweet hereafter, assuming that one believes in such a thing.

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Rebecca McNutt

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There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naive at times, she wasn't stupid.

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I can pretend it's all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life... what a trade-off!

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Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he'd told himself in horror.

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It's true, I guess, that no matter how much it sucks, you're supposed to sacrifice things for a friend. It was a concept that he hadn't understood earlier on in his life. In elementary school, Bernie had been assigned 'Charlotte's Web' to read, and he'd always found it selfish how Charlotte the spider gave everything she had to Wilbur the pig, all her time and energy trying to keep this pig alive and off the farmer's dinner plate, only to e..

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When your friend who died was still alive, did you ever tell him?" "Tell him what?" "That you're... what's the word? Celibate?" Tony asked, trailing his fingers along the buttons on the remote control but not really finding himself able to change the channel. His name, his daughter's name, it all could've easily become a statistic, an obituary, had they not left the tower when they did. "I'm asexual, not a celibate," replied the lawyer, "an..

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Bernie cursed and swore like a sailor sometimes, even around young children, to the point where he was kicked out of Disney World during a trip to Orlando, Florida one year. To boot, he'd jabbed a sewing needle into the helium Mickey Mouse balloons of at least twenty kids before a park worker dressed as Cinderella finally called security. "Disney's a greedy, bloodsucking corporation," was Bernie's half-assed excuse. Tony wasn't sure that ev..

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And what if the other kids laugh at me?" Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. "I have a Cape Breton accent! They'll know I'm from Canada and they'll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!" "You're really overreacting," Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. "Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries ..

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The lawyer was a short, ugly, little man. He stood about three feet taller than his desk's two foot eight inch frame and he had dark eyes. Lois couldn't tell if they were black or an extremely dark brown. His hair was dirty blonde and very messy. He looked as if he had just crawled out of bed. His white button up shirt was tucked in on only one side and the other side hung out freely. He wore a pair of tan khakis and a pair of black loafers..

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