After he signed the book, he decided to vacation in Portugal before getting down to business.
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He toured the entirety of his ancestral homeland without a single step.
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“A Haunting Light-years Away”
“I hear voices and scratching,” the child whispered beneath a heavy comforter.
Darkness blanketed the Montes Apenninus just beyond his son’s bedroom window.
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A piece for the working man.
Although the family feared trouble and planned a special burial, anarchists got the body of George Pullman before the earth did.
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The most honest way to earn a dollar.
“Can I come down?”
“Of course! I’m just surprised your not playing outside.”
“Chilled Reflection”
A watery grave holds only so many drops.
The night light flickered.
“Glowing Bright and Big”
You need a shotgun to squash these bugs.
“The lightning bugs sure are glowing bright tonight!”
“The Connection in Butembo”
The desperate exodus of mankind to the stars.
“Butembo will serve as the anchor for the first ever constructed.”
“A Secret in Harare”
All conspiracies unravel in time.
“You don’t understand — I need to get from Bulawayo to Harare as soon as possible. I need to be on the roof of the New Reserve Bank Tower before sunset.”
“Angola to Mississippi”
He stepped into the cyan circle.
He settled in Luanda despite the distance.
The portal was first opened in a basement along Rua Ngola Mbandi — a stone’s throw from the airport.
“Mokele-mbembe”
65 million years allow for more than cloning.
“I didn’t leave Lubumbashi to chase shadows!” the hunter shouted. “Where is mokele-mbembe? Where is this Congolese dinosaur?”
