The cigarette smoke hits you like a brick wall, staining your clothing on impact.
In the small kitchenette, you see Fern burning toast while humming some unrecognizable melody. His hands are covered by fingerless gloves, which he never takes off, even indoors. His hair is a dull black, wanting a wash. He's addicted to something
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I walked with the girls to a nearby park for a picnic lunch and they played independently for most of it, needing me only to help them on the monkey bars, or when they'd climbed too high on the ladder and were afraid to go in any direction
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A fresh-faced registrar with no medical background or training, I was working the overnight shift in the local emergency room and going to school full-time. No matter how many cups of coffee I poured, my eyelids still drooped. I started nodding off at work, only to start
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This morning I realized Gerald was my favorite character on Sid the Science Kid. That surprised me because he's kind of the most annoying, right? So, I compiled a short list of other characters I really like, and found they all have the same characteristics. Huh.
I read a lot of romance novels. This is not one of them. This book is legitimately an awesome book. (Not that romances can't be awesome, but iirc the sex scenes in this one are glazed over or hit upon quite quickly and it's okay because they're not even remotely the point.) It actually made me cry in places, and it had me complaining to Carlos
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In a far off galaxy, Lepton Electron stewed quietly. He watched from the corner of the bar as Radioactive Isotope walked in with three particles on his arm. The quarks all had dates. Christ, even Muon was romancing a pretty little thing over there. Lepton never stopped to consider that perhaps it was his negativity keeping everyone away
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