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A collection of 10 stories about things not working out at all the way you had planned. 10/2009 Update! This collection is now available for you... read full description

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Oct 06, 2010
Jamie rated it: 4 of 5 stars
There are some gems here but it’s the plain-spoken “Time Between Ordering and Eating” that gets me. It gets to me and— mostly— it just gets me. That’s me. That’s it, on paper.

“The Dead Kids” is spooky in the way I love best.

“David, Missing” has a final sentence you’ll read two dozen times.

Mostly I just wish I could time-travel for about oh, half an hour or so, back to before there was a Jennifer Love Hewitt Times Infinity and I wasn’t withholding a fifth st More...
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Jul 23, 2008
Neil rated it: 5 of 5 stars
While I was reading this, I think my wife got a little tired of my little vocalizations of appreciation as well as my interruptions of her reading to quote from various passages. I even read aloud the entirety of "The Person Who Lives".

The one story I made sure she read herself was "The Time Between Ordering and Eating." That was clearly my personal favorite. I guess like the "The Cruel Dichotomies of People with Websites" (not in the zine) and even " More...
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Nov 15, 2010
kat rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I can only repeat what Jennie's already said, in that is this: Is Kevin Fanning like a genius, or what?
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Jul 24, 2011
insomnius rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Jul 04, 2011
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May 13, 2011
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Jan 30, 2011
Jeremiah rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Dec 17, 2010
Erin rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Nov 17, 2010
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Oct 30, 2010
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Oct 14, 2010
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Jun 12, 2010
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Mar 21, 2011
Sarah rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Feb 09, 2010
William rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Jul 31, 2008
Shala marked it as to-read
Dec 22, 2009
Matthew rated it: 4 of 5 stars