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21 " His brain didn't want her to go, and he was afraid his subconscious would badger it's only witness into believing she didn't have to. "
― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit
22 " When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening. "
23 " It was as if a mad scientist had sold all of his important tools and chemicals at a yard sale, leaving a makeshift laboratory of scrap materials that the neighbors didn't want. "
24 " She could've overlooked the level of tackiness if the tackiness was also tactful. Which it was not. "
25 " They'd sold their souls to his reminder to pick up Cheerwine and bananas. "
26 " The payroll department was the only organized department they had, carefully and tediously ensuring no one was ever overpaid. "
27 " In fact, all of their other problems were misfiled within that problem, and red tape sealed it all shut. "
28 " He felt to be two tea bags away from making some progress on the entire situation, and that was a precise calculation. Any caffeine drinker excels in this area of mathematics. "
29 " These were not the aliens out beaming anyone up. If anything, they'd be the ones providing apologetic form letters to the inconveniently beamed-up. "
30 " The large office had been deliberately designed so that the two sub-terranian levels were just the tiniest bit smaller, so that the building was proudly 51% conducting honest and open business, and only 49% not. Inkle and Kelvin had felt a boost of confidence from their manufactured technicality, similar to the comfort that survey results can provide when carefully polling groups more likely to give you comforting numbers. "
31 " He was no stranger to middle fingers anyways; in Texas he had worked for a graphic design company, and the art world is overflowing with such fingers. At times almost exclusively. "
32 " His undeniably impressive resume might as well have said he designed an updated swastika for the modern Neo-Nazi, the way brick walls had been put up around his entire field of work. "
33 " Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet. "
34 " He was a powerful man; he had powerful contacts, and two hidden office levels that, although weren't dungeons, could be used for anything his desperate mind set out to do. "
35 " It sat proudly basking in the warm glow of the street lights; it wasn't a menacing 'enter at your own risk' sight at all. More of a 'come in if you'd like, if not then have a lovely evening' picturesque artifact of the Old South. "
36 " ...as if his bank account wasn't about to see numbers it would have to take a remedial math course just to identify. "
37 " There was an off-planet directory next to an old rotary phone that looked lost, as if it had wandered in the room and was actually looking for a more modern facility. "
38 " If Bagel's face was a lump of clay on a pottery wheel, it'd been rapidly thrown from an angry grey blob to a rather enthusiastic vase. "
39 " That's the unfortunate part about historical structures in general; however breathtaking they might be, if the walls could talk, they might actually sob. "
40 " He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open. "