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Valley of the Girls
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Anubis will judge you. Ammit will devour you.”
You try laughing when you’re down in the dark, in your sister’s secret burial chamber—not the decoy one where everybody hangs out and drinks, where once—oh, God, how sweet is that memory still—you and your sister’s Face did it on the memorial stone—under three hundred thousand limestone blocks,
down at the bottom of a shaft behind a door in an antechamber that maybe somebody, in a couple of hun...
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ushabti
The Book of the Dead.
Fireworks and Faces, celebrities promoting their new thing.”
her hobby is breeding chimeras.
this variation on French bullfighting, Taureau Piscine, except with unicorns.
Haha
Haha
The Entourage.
the Face.
Haha
Darius
Haha
“Dorothy Gale,”
Bunnatine Powderfinger.
Biscuit.
“The Daily Catastrophe
Haha
“That’s the best part about saving the world. The poetry.
Haha
“Little Red Riding Hood.”
“Sleeping Beauty?”
“Or does she not count, because some guy had to come along and save her?”
Haha
maybe he was thinking about being able to sleep in for a hundred years.
Haha
“Her superpower is the ability to sleep through anything.
Haha
Origin story:
Robert Potter
Haha
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Volan Crowe?”
I don’t float real well when my ears get cold.”
They’re all unwed mothers, too. They bring their kids to work and the kids are running around everywhere and they’re all wearing these really great superhero costumes.
Haha
finally she made up some story about this guy from another planet. Some tourist.
I never got more than two feet off the ground. Two fucking feet. What’s two feet good for? Waiting tables. I float sometimes, so I don’t get varicose veins like Mom.”
Haha
So busy saving the world, he couldn’t save the Land of Oz.
Haha
Haha
the kid
On weekends she came up here and read mystery novels in her car.
kids getting into trouble.
the m...
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evil pants.
Haha
Sent me a piano crate full of albino kittens last week. Some project he’s working on. They pissed everywhere. Had to find homes for them all.
Haha
don’t say yes if he offers you a game of chess. Try to stay off the subject of chess.
