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I set out along shining streets to a building on West 18th Street where I hang my shingle.

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It felt as if they channeled the pain of Turaset itself, and in a primal scream refused another day of struggle.

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I tried to yank myself out of the tragic event I had just witnessed. "Could be."

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If they knew I was about to have a conversation with the police about the body under the house, they’d pull me out of school, and scholarships be damned.


New word: Hair
 

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A young man, no older than them, was stepping through the window and walking towards them.

New word: Redheaded
 
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I jumped off the couch. God, and I thought he had been rather charming. “My legs? What are you, an alien?"


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Beyond death, there was a place of ravens. The marshlands echoed with their croaks and caws, laughter in the curdling fog.

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I sat in Stewart's office alone, trying to remember how I ever got involved in a series of events as bleak and as deadly as this.

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The ships exploded, close enough to the Inheritor Drive that it caused a slight wobble in the orderly repulsion of spacetime.

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The fingerboard fell off twice more, and each time the child had applied a different sort of glue—first superglue, then gorilla glue, all in hopes that no one would find out she had broken her instrument.

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I fumbled my way through the parlor and into the kitchen where at least the fake stove and fridge had tiny lights.

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54 instances in my WIP :rolleyes but this is my favorite.
“You a meteorologist, Joe?” Mari teased, “or just a fortune teller?”

eta: durable
 

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One instance, heheh, it's all it takes:

“The ancients spent millennia in space. The construction is quite durable.”

gravity
 

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I sat down, but gravity took me before I had a second to glance back. My body bumped and ran down the rock as I screamed.

(she's at the top of a slide.)

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A well-dressed couple walked by, but they didn't pay attention to me.

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He returned with a small serving of soup, just a few bites, and handed it to Paolo.

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Three days, new prompt.

"...even Ephraim and Ardelle were family—despite her unforgiveable lack of gratitude to them for raising her."

raising