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Added August 5, 2014
The abyss should shut you up. Sunlight hasn’t touched these waters for a million years.
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Starfish
Peter Watts
Published
1999
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And then there was that time she had me cornered in the kitchen, back against the wall and she got so close I could smell the potato chips on her breath. And she was yelling, "Hit me! Hit me! Hit me! Do it! Do it! Hit me now!"
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When you met a girl from another factory, you quickly took her measure.
What year are you?
you asked each other, as if speaking not of human beings but of the makes of cars.