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The heron’s something she just rides, the way a man rides a horseShe’d probably like it if we wasted one of the silvertips on it, but Perse is done getting what she likes I smiled without humor”That part of the lady’s career is over iii Wireman made Jack get up so he could strip the [...]

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“Help me glue this in place “When did you figure all this out, vato?” “I didn’t,” I said “You didn’t?” He was looking at me through the canvas, like a thousand lookie-loos I’d seen peering through a thousand peepholes at construction sites in my other lifeSomething’s kind of telling me as I go alongCome around [...]

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Croft put up the glasses to his eyes again Hearn stared at himThere was an expression on Croft’s faceHe could not name it, but it sent a momentary shudder along his spineThe face was consecrated for that instant, the thin lips parted, the nostrils flaredFor an instant he felt as if he had peered into [...]

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Why do you think a regiment of Southerners is worth two regiments of Easterners?” “I don’t think they are “Well, it happens to be true The General placed his fingertips together judiciously and looked at Hearn”I’m not peddling theoriesAnd the conclusions leave me, as a general officer, in a poor positionWe have the highest standard [...]

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His fingers were no longer able to close, and often he would tug helplessly until his hands slipped away with the gun still mired The column was proceeding even more slowly than it had at the start, and sometimes fifteen minutes would elapse before a gun could be moved a hundred yardsEvery now and then [...]

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“Goldstein’s no fuggin good, a man who won’t take a drink He giggled weakly, a little blood welling stickily from the parched hollow of his throat”Goddam, ol’ Croft never knew Ah got a free bottle off him Goldstein shook his head angrily, moved forward sullenly, his eyes on the groundThey never forget, the goyim, they [...]

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I had to take another sip of water before I could say what needed saying”Just that maybe vampires aren’t the only things that come back from the dead “What are you talking about?” Jack asked “Zombies?” I thought of the Perse with her rotting sails “Let’s say deserters xi “Are you sure you want to [...]

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The one marked SUICIDE was currently a bad option, as DrKamen had pointed outThat left the one marked DUMA KEY One other thing occurred in my other life before I slipped through that door, thoughIt was what happened to Monica Goldstein’s Jack Russell Terrier, Gandalf 40 viii If you’ve been picturing my convalescent retreat as [...]

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He phoned Div Arty and told them”I want you to keep your liaison planes up all afternoon “We lost one the other day, don’t you remember, and the other one’s grounded “Why didn’t you tell me that?” Dalleson roared”Well, then, assign your forward observers to Able Baker Charley and Dog Companies of the 460th and [...]

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All of this is just so sucky I stroked her hair a little”I know, but remember this – it’s as bad as it’s going to get That wasn’t the truth, but if I was careful, Ilse would never know it had been an outright lie A horn honked from the driveway “Go on,” I said, [...]

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