If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

Thomm Quackenbush

Mots clés science belief religion superstition turtle

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She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.

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Mots clés love romance christmas girl flower tecnhicolor

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None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

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Mots clés identity self facts

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Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any answers to the human condition, if an immortal soul made its home anywhere, it was in its spongy gray folds.

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Mots clés consciousness soul brain

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Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.

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Mots clés death immortality adolescence teenager cemetery

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Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.

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Mots clés glitter magic

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There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

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Mots clés age birth rebirth

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She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

Thomm Quackenbush

Mots clés death dead dating cheating autopsy

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Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it.

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Mots clés diet taste bacon

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I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen.

Thomm Quackenbush

Mots clés virginity sex sexism virgin hymen

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