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May 28, 2023 23:36
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Three Days Later
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95.5%
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#FFB
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Pray for me, Tanner, Brittney begged.
Pray for me . . .
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May 28, 2023 23:35
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Three Days Later
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95.3%
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#FFB
|
It was unanimous. By order of the Perdido Beach Temporary Council, we sentence you, Sam Temple, to relax.”
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May 28, 2023 23:35
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Three Days Later
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95.0%
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#FFB
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Hunter had been charged with killing Harry. He had been sentenced to exile from Perdido Beach. He would live apart from them, alone, but living up to the name his parents had given him.
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May 28, 2023 23:34
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Three Days Later
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94.8%
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#FFB
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The FAYZ had gone dark.
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May 28, 2023 23:33
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Forty-Seven
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94.4%
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#FFB
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saved our lives. He did it willingly. He made the choice to give his life for us.”
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May 28, 2023 23:32
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Forty-Seven
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94.3%
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#FFB
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But then he fired up the backhoe and dug two holes in the corner of the plaza.
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May 28, 2023 23:32
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Forty-Seven
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94.3%
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#FFB
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Brittney,
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May 28, 2023 23:32
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Forty-Seven
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94.3%
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#FFB
|
There was no hole for Duck Zhang
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May 28, 2023 23:32
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Forty-Seven
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94.3%
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#FFB
|
“No one knew Duck all that well,” Sam said at the service. “I don’t think anyone would have guessed he’d be a hero. But he
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May 28, 2023 23:32
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Forty-Six
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94.1%
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#FFB
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Brianna, with her hair falling out in clumps.
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May 28, 2023 23:31
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Forty-Six
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93.6%
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#FFB
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She had teased him. Abused him. Lied to him. Manipulated him. Betrayed him. Laughed at him.
But she had stuck by him. Even when he had threatened her.
Could what they had really be described as love? He’d blurted it, that word. But were either of them capable of that particular emotion?
Maybe.
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May 28, 2023 23:31
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Forty-Five: 0 Minutes
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93.4%
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#FFB
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And then Duck stopped thinking anything at all.
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May 28, 2023 23:31
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Forty-Five: 0 Minutes
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93.4%
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#FFB
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Well, Duck thought, I guess I did want to be a hero.
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May 28, 2023 23:30
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Forty-Four: 7 Minutes
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93.1%
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#FFB
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Sam had slipped. He was on his knees. Glowing hands down on the stone floor as he moaned.
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May 28, 2023 23:30
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Forty-Four: 7 Minutes
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92.9%
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#FFB
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She had to die to stop it, had to die of the radiation that churned her stomach.
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May 28, 2023 23:29
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Forty-Four: 7 Minutes
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92.3%
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#FFB
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Sam could feel it. Like cold fingers prodding his mind, poking, looking for an opening.
This is hell, Sam thought. This is hell.
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May 28, 2023 23:28
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Forty-Four: 7 Minutes
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92.2%
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#FFB
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“Duck, we may need you,” Sam said.
“But I was just going to—”
Sam’s legs buckled, and Duck grabbed him just before he hit the ground.
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May 28, 2023 23:28
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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91.5%
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#FFB
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“Don’t you want to be a hero?” Quinn asked.
“No,” Duck said honestly.
“Yeah, me neither,” Quinn admitted. “But, Edilio, he’s a hero. He’s the real thing. And, Sam . . . well, I don’t have to tell you what Sam has done for all of us.”
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May 28, 2023 23:27
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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91.3%
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#FFB
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Diana is dying. The Mexican kid is dying. Dekka, well, you saw her. And Sam doesn’t look too good,” Caine said. “Lana’s in there.”
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May 28, 2023 23:27
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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91.2%
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#FFB
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Edilio’s been shot. I don’t think he has long.”
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May 28, 2023 23:26
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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91.0%
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#FFB
|
And Astrid, to her eternal horror, saw Hunter lifted off his feet.
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May 28, 2023 23:26
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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90.8%
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#FFB
|
“Are we there?” Duck, asked, his eyes squeezed shut. “Am I done now?”
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May 28, 2023 23:26
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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90.6%
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#FFB
|
“I love her. Did you know that, Sam?”
“It’s not over yet,” Sam said
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May 28, 2023 23:25
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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90.5%
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#FFB
|
Caine walked on wobbly legs to Diana. He knelt beside her. She wasn’t moving. He put his ear next to her lovely mouth.
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May 28, 2023 23:25
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.3%
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#FFB
|
“I’m no one’s slave,” Caine grated.
No! You will not!
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May 28, 2023 23:25
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
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90.3%
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#FFB
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And then, with Drake’s cries lost in the howling madness, Caine swept his arms forward and threw the entire spinning mass down the mine shaft entrance.
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May 28, 2023 23:24
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.2%
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#FFB
|
Caine threw the fuel rod. Tons of steel and lead and uranium.
Straight at Drake.
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May 28, 2023 23:24
|
Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.2%
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#FFB
|
“Oh, my God, I don’t want to die.”
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May 28, 2023 23:24
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.1%
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#FFB
|
He raised a hand, and Sam went flying backward along with Quinn.
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May 28, 2023 23:24
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.0%
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#FFB
|
The radiation meter in his pocket was counting clicks so fast, it became a scream.
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May 28, 2023 23:24
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
90.0%
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#FFB
|
He swung the gun to his right and the bullets swooped toward where Caine stood like he was made of stone.
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May 28, 2023 23:23
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Forty-Three: 13 Minutes
|
89.8%
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#FFB
|
Diana fell. Her head smashed against a jutting point of rock. She made a sound like a dropped pumpkin.
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May 28, 2023 23:23
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Forty-Two: 27 Minutes
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89.5%
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#FFB
|
I hate you! Lana screamed wordlessly.
The gaiaphage pushed back, forced her down inside her own brain.
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May 28, 2023 23:22
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Forty-Two: 27 Minutes
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89.2%
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#FFB
|
Saw the way they were folded into one another, one inside another, monster within monster. Like a Russian nesting doll.
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May 28, 2023 23:22
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Forty-Two: 27 Minutes
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88.8%
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#FFB
|
. Smart stupid. Stupid smart.
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May 28, 2023 23:21
|
Forty-One: 33 Minutes
|
88.6%
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#FFB
|
The powerful made powerless.
The coyotes would have her.
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May 28, 2023 23:21
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Forty-One: 33 Minutes
|
88.5%
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#FFB
|
“Good-bye, Edilio,” she whispered.
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May 28, 2023 23:21
|
Forty-One: 33 Minutes
|
88.4%
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#FFB
|
Like a salamander’s tail, the whip could be cut, but would regenerate.
|
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May 28, 2023 23:20
|
Forty-One: 33 Minutes
|
87.9%
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#FFB
|
“Someone help me,” he whispered.
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May 28, 2023 23:18
|
Forty: 38 Minutes
|
87.0%
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#FFB
|
“If I do it, Lana can’t save you.”
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May 28, 2023 23:18
|
Forty: 38 Minutes
|
87.0%
|
#FFB
|
No, Edilio would have a place of honor in the plaza.
|
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May 28, 2023 23:18
|
Forty: 38 Minutes
|
87.0%
|
#FFB
|
The honored dead. Another grave. The first one that Edilio had not dug himself.
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May 28, 2023 23:18
|
Forty: 38 Minutes
|
86.6%
|
#FFB
|
You won’t see Sam again.”
“When I see his body, I’ll believe that,” Caine said dryly.
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May 28, 2023 23:16
|
Forty: 38 Minutes
|
85.8%
|
#FFB
|
There are no parents in the FAYZ. No God, either,” Zil said. “There’s just humans trying to stay alive, and freaks taking everything for themselves. And you, Astrid, are all about helping the freaks. Why? I really wonder why?”
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May 28, 2023 23:12
|
Thirty-Nine: 47 Minutes
|
84.6%
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#FFB
|
And she saw Edilio fall straight back.
She saw him land on his back.
His head bounced as he hit.
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May 28, 2023 23:07
|
Thirty-Eight: 53 Minutes
|
82.3%
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#FFB
|
The radiation. You were exposed.”
|
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|
May 28, 2023 23:07
|
Thirty-Eight: 53 Minutes
|
82.2%
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#FFB
|
“Too bad I sent Dekka to kill her.”
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May 28, 2023 23:05
|
Thirty-Seven: 01 Hour, 6 Minutes
|
81.3%
|
#FFB
|
Sam said nothing. She leapt to him, rolled him over, and only then saw to her horror the mess that Drake had made of him.
“Sam?” It came out as a sob.
“Red button,” Sam managed to gasp
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May 28, 2023 23:04
|
Thirty-Seven: 01 Hour, 6 Minutes
|
81.0%
|
#FFB
|
The great Sam Temple, bleeding and cringing and screaming out in pain as Drake brought his whip hand down again and again.
“Does it hurt, Sam?” Drake gloated. “It kind of hurt when you burned my arm off. Do you think it hurts like that?”
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May 28, 2023 23:01
|
Thirty-Seven: 01 Hour, 6 Minutes
|
80.0%
|
#FFB
|
“I’m going to hurt you, Sam. And you’re going to take it.”
|
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May 28, 2023 22:58
|
Thirty-Seven: 01 Hour, 6 Minutes
|
79.2%
|
#FFB
|
Either he kills me or I kill him, right? Either way, that’s good for you and this witch here.”
|
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May 28, 2023 22:56
|
Thirty-Seven: 01 Hour, 6 Minutes
|
78.8%
|
#FFB
|
“Do not die on me, Sam.”
|
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|
May 28, 2023 21:04
|
Thirty-Five: 02 Hours, 53 Minutes
|
76.0%
|
#FFB
|
“It’ll be like, hey, Zil gave us justice and food.”
“It will be the truth,” Turk said.
|
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May 28, 2023 20:51
|
Thirty-Four: 06 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
73.1%
|
#FFB
|
“But if he gets what he wants . . . becomes what he wants to become . . . then you will never stop him.”
|
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|
May 28, 2023 20:50
|
Thirty-Four: 06 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
73.0%
|
#FFB
|
He told me to chew my tongue off and I couldn’t resist,” she cried. “He didn’t want me to be able to tell you.”
|
|
|
May 28, 2023 20:48
|
Thirty-Four: 06 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
72.1%
|
#FFB
|
“I’ve seen his dreams,” Orsay said. “I’ve seen inside him.”
|
|
|
May 28, 2023 20:48
|
Thirty-Four: 06 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
72.1%
|
#FFB
|
“If we see Drake, you have to shoot him.”
|
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|
May 28, 2023 20:47
|
Thirty-Four: 06 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
71.6%
|
#FFB
|
And Sam . . . well, Sam wasn’t acting like Sam.
Sam had looked like a zombie listening to Quinn and Albert’s confession last night.
|
|
|
May 28, 2023 20:46
|
Thirty-Three: 07 Hours, 58 Minutes
|
71.3%
|
#FFB
|
More and more kids made dark jokes about cannibalism.
Orsay was less and less sure she wouldn’t go along.
Unless, of course, she herself was the meal.
|
|
|
May 28, 2023 20:45
|
Thirty-Three: 07 Hours, 58 Minutes
|
71.1%
|
#FFB
|
No one had entered his room since to see if he was dead or alive.
|
|
|
May 27, 2023 12:48
|
Thirty-Two: 09 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
70.0%
|
#FFB
|
“What do you want from me? I’m not Little Pete’s father. I’m not everybody’s father. Do you ever stop to think what people are asking me to do? You know what they want me to do? Do you? They want me to kill my brother so the lights will come back on. They want me to kill kids! Kill Drake. Kill Diana. Get our own kids killed.
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|
|
May 27, 2023 12:47
|
Thirty-Two: 09 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
69.9%
|
#FFB
|
“I’m mean? That’s the worst you can throw at me?”
|
|
|
May 27, 2023 12:47
|
Thirty-Two: 09 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
69.9%
|
#FFB
|
“Mean and self-pitying. Does that make it better?”
|
|
|
May 27, 2023 12:46
|
Thirty-Two: 09 Hours, 3 Minutes
|
69.5%
|
#FFB
|
We have evidence of cannibalism.
|
|
|
May 27, 2023 01:56
|
Thirty: 13 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
65.2%
|
#FFB
|
He went all Aragorn on Drake.
|
|
|
May 27, 2023 01:53
|
Thirty: 13 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
64.1%
|
#FFB
|
“Cut her right in half,”
|
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|
May 26, 2023 22:17
|
Twenty-Eight: 16 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
61.1%
|
#FFB
|
You will die.
“As long as you die with me!” Lana screamed.
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 22:16
|
Twenty-Eight: 16 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
60.8%
|
#FFB
|
“And my mom added Arwen for the elf princess in The Lord of the Rings.”
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 22:03
|
Twenty-Eight: 16 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
60.3%
|
#FFB
|
“Human shoot you in your ugly face, you stinking, stupid dog.”
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 12:21
|
Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 23 Minutes
|
47.1%
|
#FFB
|
“Hello darkness, my old friend,” Lana half sang, half whispered. “I’m coming to talk with you again
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 12:11
|
Nineteen: 18 Hours, 35 Minutes
|
43.7%
|
#FFB
|
Brittney had no romantic feelings for Edilio, but what she had went a lot deeper. She would rather burn for eternity in the hottest fires of Hell than let Edilio down.
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 11:53
|
Seventeen: 22 Hours
|
37.1%
|
#FFB
|
as she knew he would. He might have a crush on cute little Brianna, but Diana had missed none of the covert looks Jack had sent her way over the months she’d known him
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:42
|
Sixteen: 22 Hours, 41 Minutes
|
35.1%
|
#FFB
|
She was still deciding whether or not she liked it.
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:35
|
Sixteen: 22 Hours, 41 Minutes
|
34.0%
|
#FFB
|
V for Vendetta.
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:28
|
Fifteen: 30 Hours, 41 Minutes
|
32.8%
|
#FFB
|
I’m going to kill some worms.”
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:26
|
Fifteen: 30 Hours, 41 Minutes
|
32.5%
|
#FFB
|
“You just want to be in control of everything,” Jack accused.
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:19
|
Fourteen: 36 Hours, 47 Minutes
|
31.7%
|
#FFB
|
“And he’s hungry,” Little Pete said, whispering now. “Hungry in the dark.”
|
|
|
May 26, 2023 00:06
|
Thirteen: 45 Hours, 36 Minutes
|
28.6%
|
#FFB
|
That was the problem with having one person in charge. People expected you to come up with all the answers. They stopped coming up with answers for themselves
|
|
|
May 25, 2023 12:50
|
Eleven: 70 Hours, 11 Minutes
|
23.7%
|
#FFB
|
I can’t demand she be around 24/7 to handle every boo-boo.”
|
|
|
May 25, 2023 00:21
|
Ten: 81 Hours, 17 Minutes
|
21.8%
|
#FFB
|
. “I’m the brains! I’m the brains and the power, the true power, the four bar, the one
|
|
|
May 24, 2023 22:47
|
Nine: 82 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
20.6%
|
#FFB
|
In his face.
|
|
|
May 24, 2023 22:41
|
Nine: 82 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
19.8%
|
#FFB
|
“I am loyal to Sam.”
|
|
|
May 24, 2023 21:27
|
Nine: 82 Hours, 38 Minutes
|
19.1%
|
#FFB
|
“You don’t sleep. You never have a minute to yourself. You act like everything that goes wrong is your fault. You’re worried.”
|
|
|
May 24, 2023 12:58
|
Eight: 88 Hours, 52 Minutes
|
17.2%
|
#FFB
|
“You,” he whispered, his breath in her face. “You were in my head.”
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 21:35
|
Four: 106 Hours, 8 Minutes
|
8.8%
|
#FFB
|
He couldn’t get past the idea that a whole world was down there below the waves, invisible to him while he was visible to them
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:36
|
Two: 106 Hours, 16 Minutes
|
4.8%
|
#FFB
|
Territoriality is usually associated with higher life-forms. Dogs or cats are territorial. Not worms.”
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:32
|
Two: 106 Hours, 16 Minutes
|
3.5%
|
#FFB
|
Gaiaphage
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:31
|
Two: 106 Hours, 16 Minutes
|
3.2%
|
#FFB
|
“Like a mental patient who can’t tell if he’s in reality or in a dream?”
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:30
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
2.6%
|
#FFB
|
What they left behind was no longer recognizable as a human being.
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:29
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
2.4%
|
#FFB
|
Worms as big as garter snakes were seething up from beneath the dirt. Dozens. Maybe hundreds
|
Cappage
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:29
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
2.4%
|
#FFB
|
Sam saw the worm erupt from the skin of E.Z.’s throat.
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:27
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
2.2%
|
#FFB
|
They’re in my feet!”
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:27
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
2.1%
|
#FFB
|
“You’re right, man, there’ve been seagulls all over the other fields. Especially in the morning.”
|
|
|
May 23, 2023 14:25
|
One: 106 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
1.7%
|
#FFB
|
He was fifteen
|
(sarcastically) wow
|