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“Leave that
ol’ snake alone!”
Aunt Mary was growing impatient with me, but
never before had I seen a snake like that, espec..
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54 illustrated personal-experience essays inspire, appreciate, and celebrate where we’ve been, who we are, and what we share
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Prologue
“This is the image you want?” Kristen
asks, wrinkling her nose.
We gaze at the squalor that is Maywood Gardens..
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Chapter 1
To capture imaginations, I start with an image.
I can’t rely on clients to conjure my
visions, so I weave telling w..
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Media master Danté promotes designer prescription drugs, but conspiracy and murder paint a picture even he cannot erase.
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They came from every
direction, floating down from trees, wafting on breezes, threading their way
among tropical plants, through tall grasses, a..
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What’s the best way to kill my own children?
Sullrob was having trouble sleeping again. This
whole business about terminating his kids w..
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The boy looked back.
Of all the artwork in this gallery, the paintings
and drawings reflecting absent artists’ vicarious pleas for recogni..
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Rochelle at 13
Squeezing her eyes
shut, Rochelle tried to picture her mother, to make real again the reassuring
smile that reminds a loving da..
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The galaxy needs Zhasou plants from Seelius, an isolationist planet busy with deadly purges for ethnic purity.
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