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I cracked open the door to peek out to see what was happening. ... I wanted to scream out 'what the fuck is going on'! but I didn't want Daddy to turn around looking at me nor did I want him to pull off his belt to whip me. I saw Eisha ...
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She leaned over the receptionist, who, to her credit, didn't flinch. 'Who's your boss?' The receptionist darted a frantic glance to her right. 'He can't see you now.' 'Like hell.' Liza strode towards the sole double doors where the ...
Gertie didn't dislike Roy as a person, but she couldn't abide his body odor. Randall didn't know any of his relatives, nor did he know anyone who did. He wouldn't see Roy for months, and then he'd appear. One day when Roy had reappeared ...
If Mark had been a little smarter, he would have seen it coming. When you take over in a leadership position, ... You might, for example, be inheriting an operation run by 3435 I Didn' t See It Coming WATCH OUT FOR IMPRINTS IN THE SAND.
Things We Didn’t See Coming is terrific.” This is just one of the many rave reviews that appeared on the Australian publication of these nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly ...