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Opening Lines: The First 3 Paragraphs of The Chimes by Anna Smaill

I’ve been standing here forever. My arms and legs and head and even my bones are heavy with sleep. Clothes heavy with the rain that won’t stop falling. Shoes heavy with mud. My roughcloth bag is slung over my shoulder … Continue reading

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Cloud Atlas, the Book

“… and only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” “Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?” * “So who’s expired in … Continue reading

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