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farcical.
It came out as a whisper but hit like a roar.
operatic,
myopic.
comeuppance.
paean
He says getting away with it was the easy part. Hard part? Not telling nobody about it.”
It had been madness, but ego wasn’t afraid of prison. Ego wasn’t afraid of anything except being ignored.
antithetical
cachet.
laowai.
chamois.
He was narrow of shoulder and white of hair, age taking its toll on both.
flyweight.”
Peer through the swirl of anger and see the pain that anger protected.
caroming
berm
augur
wardriving
Fight the fight, but never let them pick the venue.
What a strange thing to live with, he thought. How could anyone imagine a fresh start with the ruined bridge reminding them of what had been? Knowing your history was one thing, but living in it? That was a cage.
Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light,
At the foot of the stairs, a dead bird lay peacefully in the tall grass.
caromed
Which was funny, because she also saw what a foolish, wasteful thing she had done. This revenge of hers, if you could even call it that, had been a mistake. A stupid, selfish waste of her time, and probably her life. Of all their lives. But knowing that now, as she did, she still would not have changed a thing. That was the thing about mistakes: often you had to make them to see them for what they were. And she wouldn’t trade this feeling of clarity for anything in the world. There would be a high price to pay, but she would pay it gladly.
The best lies traveled in the shadow of the truth, changing only the bare minimum to achieve that end.
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
venal
From a safe distance, tragedy was life’s most irresistible spectacle.
