The new electric kettle had a considerable footprint for what it was and laid claim to most of the remaining counter space in Allen’s already far-too-cramped kitchen. But he liked its glossy pastel green casing and the thin brass trim. This material composition granted the appliance a sense...
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Charles was an old man. He had been seated on the park bench for three hours and had now read his little magazine front to back four times. Charles was dressed for the weather. It was an antagonistic cold, dry and windless, and it gnawed at his ears...
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i wake up three times from my perch at the edge of the universe, and here there is shaking and gnashing of metal teeth.
the teeth spin at 4000 RPM. between 4000 and 6000, though less for cordless models, according to Gemini.
that is...
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From here it’s wide and empty and from here you can scarcely see either side of Maryland and there’s nobody around anywhere in sight to make noise or say anything, except me and my husband Sam. We tend a lighthouse on a shoal in the middle of the...
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It was past midnight. Mac and Louie both hid their shoes from the drizzle under Ragmans’ little awning and pretended not to be all that cold in the biting November air. Their horn cases leaned against the wall, getting a little wetter each time the rain decided to...
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A red sign with a glaring skull warned of land mines in the dunes. The dunes ran for a half mile, alongside gray craters. Beyond them lay a frothing shoreline. But from the dark edge of the forest Aaron saw only the submarine. Aaron knew the old rotting...
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It was like a church—the sun blew lazily through the thick glass brick, casually diffuse, gently floating down like a clean sheet, smelling of toothpaste and of Tide. Rose petals, unswept, and so gone sweet, had settled on the floor. And a crackly piano wafted from down the...
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A few days ago, Saturday, I could be seen Terrace, crossed beyond recognition of course—as you should be at Terrace—stumbling my way downstairs, when I was struck in the head. I struck in the head with one of those fleeting but indelible moments of illumination, those peeks into...
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‘Stochastic Drift’ in the context of physical systems refers to gradual and cumulative changes in a system over time due to probabilistic influences and noise. In the same way, perhaps looking back upon this repository myself or others will be able to...
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