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Nightwatching

There was someone in the house.

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Miss Austen Investigates

By moonlight, Jane hitches up the hem of her muslin gown and darts across a neatly scythed lawn.

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The Cancer Finishing School

‘Make sure you write the end first,’ Alan, one of my cancer patients, suggests when I tell him I plan to write the story of my own illness.

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The Idea of You

I suppose I could blame it all on Daniel.

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Where The Dark Stands Still

The festivities of Kupala night are just beginning when Liska Radost leaves the village behind.

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Freddie’s clothes came to Veith Street instead of Blackthorn House, and the telegram that ought to have preceded them didn’t reach Laura at all.

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Fourteen Days

Call me 1A. I’m the super of a building on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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Supercommunicators

If there was one thing everyone knew about Felix Sigala, it was that he was easy to talk to.

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Joy Moody is Out of Time

It was always busier in the cold months at Joyful Suds, Bayside's Premier Laundromat.

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Beautiful Chaos

I was told my world would change.

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The Soul

This is a history of the soul, or what we now call the mind, the mysterious inner voice that wills us to think and act and is unique to each of us.

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Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not

It was fair to say that Phoebe Cotton's brain was like a mixing desk where some of the controls were a little bit broken.

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Only the Astronauts

My love, we need to talk.

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Lead Us Not

It was dark in the gym.

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Jaded

The Lincoln Room was at full capacity.

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The Book of Doors

In Kellner Books on the Upper East Side of New York City, a few minutes before his death, John Webber was reading The Count of Monte Cristo

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Radiant Heat

Alison was still alive.

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