Hush seemed disinterested about the cans of nutritional supplements being stacked inside his shopping cart. [Clink-Clink-Clink] Far more content with scratching the side of his arm and staring off into the the street. The [No]thing had finally piled two stacks of three cans into the cart, and pulled out the tenth, popping the
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[His face looked like ham on a hook above me,--
I was there pinned into the chair,
because he's hunkered over me,
with arms like jaws pried open by chair arms...]
It was almost Dusk. Maisie sat on the corner of 14th Street and Seventh Avenue waiting for it.
Her hands shoved into her pockets, her feet squarely planted along the left edge of a sewer grate. From beneath the straw hat she watched people move back and forth across the street. Young people, old people, fast people and defiantly slow. She had
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Sanskrit noun (from the adj. sūnya - 'void') meaning ‘Emptiness’ or ‘Voidness’, is a characteristic of empirical phenomena arising from the fact that the impermanent nature of form means that noting possesses essential enduring idenity - this aspect of the cultivation of insight (See vipassana-bhavana) that leads to wisdom and inner
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"We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies . . . If this now makes me a disgraced woman in your eyes - let your estimate be your own concern. I will stand on mine."
It was maybe a decade or two ago, when she first saw those serious brown eyes.
Laughing and old - old as rivers. [My soul has grown deep as rivers.] In the face of a promising but erratic young student. John. She was not then the creature she is now. So committed to her freedom and independence - then. In certain
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I've posted on the email forums a bit about this --
Wow. I stayed up late last night brainstorming about my Changeling. I still mostly have ideas about her pre-kidnapping memories -- and her time in Arcadia. Things through the brambles are distant and foggy until the books come but here's what I have.
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She was a farmer's daughter. Her father "The
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