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[jhe1valu]

They kept getting pregnant.

 

[cjr169]

He's where he belongs, enjoying death and all its accoutrements.

2nd place:

Jim claimed to be the toughest son of a bitch in West Texas. Four shots from my Colt told him otherwise.

 

[jhe1valu]

At that moment, without either my beloved Dad or my precious Mom to anchor me, I truly felt uncontrollably adrift in the sea of life – I had never felt like that before

 

[jhe1valu]

“Come on out, ya varmint, and I’ll take care of you,” he whispered softly to himself.

 

[jhe1valu]

Joe had had drilled into him at school, and by his Dad, that any problem to be solved was best done by drawing pictures of it, or making models to show what might work.

 

[Jinks]

They were a rainbow formed by the light shining through a stained-glass window, while she was the muted yellow light created by a lamp shining through paper.

 

[jhe1valu]

The lot had to be close to an acre, with a big garage – used as a storage shed – a small orchard, and an old unused chicken coop, way in the back.

 

[jhe1valu]

After almost five years of army service, Hop was a free man, on his own again. As he passed by the stockade and the POW detainees' area, he thought about his life as an MP.

 

[jhe1valu]

She climbed aboard, paid, and found a seat. She then sat very properly. Palmer had caught a whiff of her delightful scent as she went by.

“My, my, my!” Palmer thought to himself.

Joseph Palmer Hopkins’ entire life had just changed.

 

[jhe1valu]

Open, airy, and with great street views through the large windows along both streets at the corner, it was a fine spot for a restaurant – much to the delight of neighboring shops, where the specter of a gas station had been feared. Their eatery was immediately popular with surrounding merchants.

 

[jhe1valu]

The bucolic, rolling Tennessee hills seemed a little less green that afternoon.

 

[Leeris]

"You're right. I need to pull it together and follow through," said Lee.

 

[jhe1valu]

The very few times he did have to fight, it was usually over very quickly.

 

[jhe1valu]

Margie finally succumbed to the narcosis of sleep herself, , until it became an absolute swirl of encounters.

 

[Keilah]

Context: an immortal muses on death after resurrecting.

'Death is terrifying, for most people. Your first death is always the most frightening and unexpected. After that, not so much.'

 

[jhe1valu]

Weekends for Dix and Margie were alternately fierce grappling and sweet melding; showers between were needed.

 

[iwriteforfood]

After half a day and no luck, Renlo decided to have a serious talk with the chicken.

 

[jhe1valu]

A sight greeted him which was so prurient it would bring the worms up out of the ground.

 

[Ashigara]

Leviathan said, “We’re demons, we shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas.”

“I agree,” Mammon looked down from atop her Scrooge-Mcduck mountain of profits, “to an extent.”

 

[Latina Bunny]

At least he played the guitar well. I would have thrown the dog’s slobbery chew toy at his head if the idiota had dared to defile my delicate ears with offensively terrible music. Even a duende lady as elegant and patient as me has her limits.

A few moments later…

Well, when a man says you’re the love of his life and all sorts of food items, how can you refuse him?

 

[jhe1valu]

The Crib Snatcher had struck again.

 

[jhe1valu]

Having said these things, I say plainly here at the beginning, “This is a work of fiction!” It is.

 

[Keilah]

Sometimes I hate being right. This is not one of those times.

 

[jhe1valu]

Dix was fascinated by all these things, but he found the new exhibit on Memphis politics absolutely absorbing, especially when it covered the Crump years and their thorough clamp-down on labor unions and organizing.

 

[jhe1valu]

After each piece was on and tightened into place, Dix rotated the rocker arm back around to the valve shaft, used a “gap gauge” to check the spacing, and torqued down the rocker nut to the proper amount. Then he slid out the gauge, which came out smoothly, indicating a proper spacing.