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2 viewsRain washed the cover off.Guess they just gave up and started dumping more shit on it.Can't drink the water out there; fulla PCBs and everything else." "What about those rabbits Bird-boy goes hunting for?" "They're west of here.You don't see 'em on the Solitude.
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0 viewsAnd Lanette, who'd dissolved a matchhead of Memphis black in a cup of Chinese tea about an hour before, did half a crystal herself and then they'd gone out walking, just ghosting the rainy streets together in what felt to Mona like some perfect harmony where you didn't need to talk.And that voice had been right, there was no jangle to the rush, no tight-jawed jitter, just this sense of something, maybe Mona herself, expanding out from a still center.And they'd found a park, flat lawns flooded with silver puddles, and gone all around the paths, and Mona had a name for that memory: the Silver Walks.And sometime after that Lanette was just gone, nobody saw her anymore, and some people said she'd gone to California, some people said Japan, and some people said she'd OD'd and gotten tossed out a window, what Eddy called a dry dive, but that wasn't the kind of thing Mona wanted to think about, so she sat up straight and looked around, and, yeah, this was a good place, small enough that people were kind of crowded in but sometimes that was okay.
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The White Pass Railroad hasInternational Historic Civil Engineering Landmark - a designation shared2 viewsThe White Pass Railroad hasInternational Historic Civil Engineering Landmark - a designation shared
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train is coming2 viewstrain is coming
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0 viewsIt was drizzling outside, maybe dome condensation.She'd worn the white raincoat for the lobby, figuring Prior knew what he was doing after all, but now she was glad she had it.She grabbed a fold of fax out of an overflowing bin and held it over her head to keep her hair dry.It wasn't as cold as before, which was another good thing.
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rain china summer lake3 viewsrain china summer lake
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50 viewsAnd it came to me that I had no idea at all of what was really happening, or of what was supposed to happen.And that was the nature of my game, because I'd spent most of my life as a blind receptacle to be filled with other people;s knowledge and then drained, spouting synthetic languages I'd never understand.A very technical boy.Sure.
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2 views"House," she said, "I'll see the video from Continuity now." As the wallscreen slid down into place, she opened the bedroom door and stood for a moment at the top of the stairs, listening to the sounds of the empty house.Surf, the hum of the dishwasher, wind buffeting the windows that faced the deck.She turned back to the screen and shivered at the face she saw there in a grainy freeze-frame headshot, avian eyebrows arched above dark eyes, high fragile cheekbones, and a wide, determined mouth.The image expanded steadily, into the darkness of an eye, black screen, a white point, growing, lengthening, becoming the tapered spindle of Freeside.
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0 views"The Americans have no interest in us," Korolev said."Muscow can no longer be embarrassed by such revelations." "Except when the grain shipments are due," Grishkinsaid."America needs to sell as badly as we need to buy." Korolev grimly spooned more chlorella into his mouth, chewed mechanically, and swallowed."The Americans couldn't reach us even if they desired to.
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0 viewsLanette liked bars but she never drank, just Coke or something.Mona always remembered one day she'd done two crystals at the same time, what Lanette called a two-rock hit, and she'd heard this voice in her skull say, just as clear as that, like it was somebody right in the room: It 's moving so fast , it 's standing still .And Lanette, who'd dissolved a matchhead of Memphis black in a cup of Chinese tea about an hour before, did half a crystal herself and then they'd gone out walking, just ghosting the rainy streets together in what felt to Mona like some perfect harmony where you didn't need to talk.And that voice had been right, there was no jangle to the rush, no tight-jawed jitter, just this sense of something, maybe Mona herself, expanding out from a still center.
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0 viewsSomehow she found herself in the bathroom with her purse on her lap.She hurried, getting the hit together; didn't grind it fine enough, so it burned the back of her throat, but like Lanette used to say, you don't always have time for the niceties.And anyway, wasn't that all a lot better now? There was a little shower in Gerald's bathroom, but it looked like it hadn't been used for a long time.She took a closer look and saw gray mold growing around the drain, and spots that looked like dried blood.
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0 views"Snags in 'er bag," another said." 'Elp 'er, Reg." A hand darted out and the leather strap of her purse parted neatly.The first Dracula caught the purse, whipped the dangling strap around it with a practiced flick, and tucked it into the front of his raincoat."Ta." " 'Ere, she's got 'em in 'er pants!" Laughter as she fumbled beneath layered sweaters.
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