Sharp Objects
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Read between August 16 - August 28, 2025
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I had three inches of copy. I needed ten.
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promised myself I’d invest in a decent sofa when I returned as a reward for the stunning story I was sure to dig up.
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In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.
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“We hug her a little harder every night now.”
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Alan is the opposite of moist.
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was not ready to speak with my mother. My
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and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee.
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I wondered if the tooth for a tooth part disturbed anyone else.
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The guests segregated themselves into two groups, the tearful and the dry.
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blood splurting from the wound like stigmata.
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When you die, you become perfect.
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Didn’t have babies till she was, like, thirty,
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looked down from above like a spiteful little god,
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“We don’t take money from pretty women here.”
Maddie
The future liberals want
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The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.
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“No, the girl had to apologize too, to the class. ‘Young ladies must be in control of their bodies because boys are not.’”
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Weak chin.
Maddie
Same girl
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was becoming obsessed with the girl.
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Two tall boys discussing death and house parties.