"Garrett reaches down and pulls his field guide from its case on his hip. The dog-eared tome with half of its pages carefully sewn back into the binding is opened carefully as Garrett sifts through the pages until he comes to rest on an illustration of a black bear. He holds the page out to the girl and then hands the book over to Gris...
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"Love is a hard, autumn word, shining like a diamond against a winter reality. Love makes demands, not concessions. Carlson spoke the truth of things back at Sang’s and his words cut deep, left to fester in Garrett’s mind. Garrett is a coward."
"The last few years have been a long con, a plot that Sang and Carlson both saw right through. Carrington knew Garrett...
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There is another version of her, always in my mind. Proud and indifferent, sitting atop a chest and refusing to move. There is something in that chest, something that I know I need to remember but no matter how much I plead or yell, that other version of her only smirks and shakes her head. She hates me, but not enough to let me remember...
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Garrett feels the urge to laugh, he chokes the instinct to do so out loud but he can’t stop the dizzy feeling of laughing uncontrollably inside his head. Underestimate your opponent at your peril. Garrett’s father wasn’t fond of quotes like his sister was but the learning they had as children hadn’t been entirely wasted on him. Garrett’s father preferred his few favored quotes...
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I'm going to say this once, so loud that even the dumb kids in the back of the class can hear it. Waking up with an empty wallet after a night of trying to or expecting to buy sexual favors from people DOES NOT equate to being drugged and raped. It never can, it never will, and if you are trying to equate those two...
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"Gris and Digger are just about done, piling the last of the day’s dead atop a large trash pile before lighting the pile up using the contents of Digger’s clay jar as Garrett comes around to the space between Sang’s and the mushroom farm next door."
"Digger looks to his left at Gris, “I bet your whole tribe would cry if they saw this.”
“The...
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Sang smiles savagely in return, her eyes clear and sober, “I’m a whore, my business is men. You idiots are all the same, there’s the woman you miss, the one you lost or the one that got away. Then there’s the one you really love but you either fumbled yourself out of favor with them or never got up the courage to act. Lastly, there’s...
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