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The Week
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Amazing Grace
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Roman Classics Major Adrienne
Siquis in hoc artem populo non novit amandi, Hoc legat et lecto carmine doctus amet. Should anyone here not know the art of love, read this, and learn by reading how to love. “Oh shit,” thought Adrienne as she moved the complete works of Ovid to one side. Underneath was the application form for the archeological…
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French Kissing
Maybe it was because they were both ex-patriates living in the south of France. Maybe it was the early summer. Maybe it was the chilled rose wine that flowed copiously. Or the wonderful provencale food. Or that after a dozen years of marriage and three children her sex life was routine and infrequent. But mostly…
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Matchbook
Near Ypres, France 1918 Everybody knew that the Great War was inching inexorably towards its end. But death was still everywhere. The Americans had entered the war and their fresh soldiers rejuvenated the battle-weary allied troops exhausted after four years of attrition. In a field hospital a few miles beyond the killing grounds of the…
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Jack and Jill
Friday night, a bar in Edinburgh Scotland “A Jack Daniels please” Simon had his back to her and hadn’t seen her enter the bar. He turned around. She was wearing a business-like outfit: skirt, blouse, jacket. Probably just come straight from work. “Now a woman who orders Jack Daniels here has to be worth talking…
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Wallpaper
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The Temple Slave
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Wars of the Roses
