July 01, 2023 17:11
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Later
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93.5%
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#FFB
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Murdered in a fight over a bag of chips.
Dead of suicide.
Dead because she was playing with matches and we don’t exactly have a fire department.
Killed because it was the only way we could deal with him.
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July 01, 2023 16:56
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Thirty-Five: 4 Hours, 6 Minutes
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86.6%
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#FFB
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Gaia.
Gaia’s eyes opened. She squinted blue eyes at Diana.
“Yeah,” Diana said. “I’m your mommy.”
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July 01, 2023 16:45
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Thirty-Three: 5 Hours, 12 Minutes
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83.0%
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#FFB
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“It’s the umbilical cord. It’s around the neck. It’ll choke!”
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July 01, 2023 16:44
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Thirty-Three: 5 Hours, 12 Minutes
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82.5%
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#FFB
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A sudden motion. Something very fast. Brittney’s head rolled off her neck. It landed on Diana’s belly and then rolled heavily to one side.
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July 01, 2023 16:25
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Thirty-Two: 7 Hours, 1 Minute
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80.0%
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#FFB
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“An only. Like me. I’m the only one like me,” Orc said.
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July 01, 2023 16:21
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Thirty-Two: 7 Hours, 1 Minute
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78.0%
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#FFB
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Contraction.
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July 01, 2023 16:20
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Outside
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77.7%
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#FFB
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“Yes,” he said into the phone. “What she told you is one hundred percent true.”
The FBI agents took his phone then
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July 01, 2023 16:17
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Thirty-One: 8 Hours, 58 Minutes
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76.2%
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#FFB
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“He touched them. Is it . . . Is it real?” Cigar asked tentatively.
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July 01, 2023 14:55
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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72.8%
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#FFB
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Caine might be a thug, an egomaniac, a killer, but he was no coward.
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July 01, 2023 14:19
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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72.0%
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#FFB
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“Yeah. Just like a god, never there when you need one.”
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July 01, 2023 14:17
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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71.5%
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#FFB
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“I’ll take care of these people here, Sam. Go find our friends. And if you run into Drake, kill that son of a bitch.”
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July 01, 2023 14:13
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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71.4%
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#FFB
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And up here it’s Edilio who really runs things. Even Quinn, he’s a better leader than me. Me? I get pissed off when you need me, and then I pout when you don’t.
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July 01, 2023 14:05
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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70.6%
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#FFB
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And some kids are still going to call me a faggot or whatever.”
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July 01, 2023 14:03
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
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70.5%
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#FFB
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“Why didn’t you tell me you were gay?” Sam demanded.
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July 01, 2023 14:03
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Thirty: 10 Hours, 4 Minutes
|
70.5%
|
#FFB
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finding out you’ve got someone to care about like that? How is that something I have to deal with?”
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July 01, 2023 01:11
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Twenty-Nine: 10 Hours, 27 Minutes
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68.1%
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#FFB
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That he was too late was apparent. The coyotes weren’t killing at this point; they were feeding and dismembering.
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July 01, 2023 00:09
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Twenty-Seven: 10 Hours, 54 Minutes
|
65.1%
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#FFB
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And the closest thing they had to a god was a reckless, indifferent child.
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July 01, 2023 00:07
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Twenty-Seven: 10 Hours, 54 Minutes
|
64.6%
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#FFB
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“I like boys, okay? I think. I guess. Probably. I mean, I’m just thirteen! Jeez! I know it’s the FAYZ and all, but I’m really just . . . a kid.”
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July 01, 2023 00:04
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Twenty-Seven: 10 Hours, 54 Minutes
|
63.4%
|
#FFB
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“That was the old God, Diana. That God was before. He doesn’t live in the FAYZ.”
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June 30, 2023 23:53
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Twenty-Six: 11 Hours, 28 Minutes
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61.5%
|
#FFB
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That throat. It couldn’t be choked, but it could be cut.
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June 30, 2023 23:53
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Twenty-Six: 11 Hours, 28 Minutes
|
61.2%
|
#FFB
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Of course, a woman-hater like you? What was it with you and females, by the way? Find out your mom was a whore or something?”
|
June 30, 2023 23:51
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Twenty-Six: 11 Hours, 28 Minutes
|
60.5%
|
#FFB
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“All dogs go to heaven. Coyotes go the other way.”
|
June 30, 2023 18:29
|
Outside
|
59.6%
|
#FFB
|
“They’re going to nuke the dome.”
|
June 30, 2023 18:29
|
Outside
|
59.2%
|
#FFB
|
He was no constitutional law scholar, but he was pretty sure it did not call for nuking a bunch of kids in California.
|
June 30, 2023 18:28
|
Twenty-Five: 12 Hours, 40 Minutes
|
58.6%
|
#FFB
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at Disney World.
|
June 30, 2023 18:28
|
Twenty-Five: 12 Hours, 40 Minutes
|
58.4%
|
#FFB
|
Drake had started singing. It was the song from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride
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June 30, 2023 18:26
|
Twenty-Five: 12 Hours, 40 Minutes
|
57.9%
|
#FFB
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She’d had Caine right where she wanted him, but no one liked her, and all they did was hate on her, and now her foot was hurt and bleeding.
|
June 30, 2023 18:03
|
Twenty-Four: 14 Hours, 2 Minutes
|
53.6%
|
#FFB
|
What kind of creep would sentence this kid to a day with Penny? No wonder he was insane.
|
June 30, 2023 17:50
|
Twenty-Two: 14 Hours, 44 Minutes
|
49.8%
|
#FFB
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“Because she has a baby in her belly. And the Darkness needs to be born.”
|
June 30, 2023 17:45
|
Twenty-One: 15 Hours, 12 Minutes
|
46.8%
|
#FFB
|
My baby.
|
June 30, 2023 17:43
|
Twenty-One: 15 Hours, 12 Minutes
|
45.8%
|
#FFB
|
The streams of dried blood that had run from the crown she’d made of aluminum foil and then stapled to his head.
|
June 29, 2023 23:09
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Twenty: 17 Hours, 20 Minutes
|
43.5%
|
#FFB
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I don’t live my life so everyone pays attention to me. I do my job without making me the story, and without people having to wonder what’s going on with me.”
|
June 29, 2023 23:08
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Twenty: 17 Hours, 20 Minutes
|
43.3%
|
#FFB
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“You don’t understand a damned thing, Edilio; you don’t have anyone, you don’t have anyone you need or love or care about, it’s just you.”
|
June 29, 2023 23:01
|
Nineteen: 17 Hours, 37 Minutes
|
41.3%
|
#FFB
|
Tell him I won’t stop until I get it done.”
|
June 29, 2023 22:59
|
Eighteen: 18 Hours, 55 Minutes
|
40.7%
|
#FFB
|
She smashed the globe against the back of Caine’s head. He slumped forward.
|
June 29, 2023 22:40
|
Sixteen: 22 Hours, 5 Minutes
|
34.5%
|
#FFB
|
Penny had put Drano in Rose’s cereal, just to see how pretty she would be with her throat burned out
|
June 29, 2023 22:29
|
Fourteen: 24 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
31.3%
|
#FFB
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“Are you bitching out the gaiaphage? I’ll whip the skin off you!”
|
June 29, 2023 22:29
|
Fourteen: 24 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
31.0%
|
#FFB
|
affectionate speculation about Edilio and the nature of his friendship with the Artful Roger;
|
June 29, 2023 22:26
|
Fourteen: 24 Hours, 29 Minutes
|
30.4%
|
#FFB
|
Without light he would not survive. When the final night came with no prospect of dawn, he would be done.
|
June 29, 2023 13:27
|
Thirteen: 25 Hours
|
27.9%
|
#FFB
|
How strange, Astrid thought, that owning your own sins, refusing forgiveness, but vowing not to repeat them, could make you feel stronger.
|
June 29, 2023 13:23
|
Eleven: 26 Hours, 45 Minutes
|
25.8%
|
#FFB
|
“Quinn, don’t you know that if you don’t work this out with me you’ll be dealing with Caine?”
|
June 29, 2023 13:22
|
Eleven: 26 Hours, 45 Minutes
|
25.7%
|
#FFB
|
“We want Penny gone,” Quinn said.
|
June 29, 2023 13:19
|
Eleven: 26 Hours, 45 Minutes
|
24.8%
|
#FFB
|
. “Nothing will grow. We won’t be able to fish. We’ll . . . We’ll wander in the dark until we die of hunger. Kids will figure that out. They’ll panic.”
|
June 29, 2023 12:44
|
Outside
|
23.6%
|
#FFB
|
Four months after her ghastly appearance, Mary Terrafino was dead.
|
June 29, 2023 12:38
|
Outside
|
22.6%
|
#FFB
|
The ward had two patients: Mary and a boy named Francis.
|
June 29, 2023 12:36
|
Ten: 34 Hours, 31 Minutes
|
22.0%
|
#FFB
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But wrapped around her was a sickly green tendril, like an infinitely long snake that writhed and probed at her, seeking a way into her head.
And that was all that Cigar saw. Because everything around the three kids was blank, empty darkness.
|
June 29, 2023 00:55
|
Nine: 35 Hours, 25 Minutes
|
18.9%
|
#FFB
|
And there, flitting magically from place to place, was the perfect avatar.
|
June 29, 2023 00:45
|
Eight: 36 Hours, 10 Minutes
|
17.8%
|
#FFB
|
You ever see me freaking out, like Penny is pulling something on me? You shoot the witch. We clear on that?”
|
June 29, 2023 00:30
|
Eight: 36 Hours, 10 Minutes
|
17.5%
|
#FFB
|
“He tore his own eyes out. What did you think Quinn would do? What do you think Albert will do now?”
|
June 29, 2023 00:04
|
Seven: 36 Hours, 19 Minutes
|
17.3%
|
#FFB
|
“Booby trap.”
|
June 28, 2023 21:44
|
Six: 43 Hours, 17 Minutes
|
14.7%
|
#FFB
|
Orc was reading. He was reading the Bible.
|
June 28, 2023 21:41
|
Six: 43 Hours, 17 Minutes
|
13.7%
|
#FFB
|
Two black-and-red holes stared from the front of Cigar’s face.
|
June 28, 2023 21:36
|
Five: 44 Hours, 12 Minutes
|
12.5%
|
#FFB
|
And Brianna had evidently not felt the same way.
|
June 28, 2023 21:08
|
Five: 44 Hours, 12 Minutes
|
11.9%
|
#FFB
|
Panda, the baby said, and smiled without teeth, smiled with the panda’s own red mouth.
|
June 28, 2023 20:59
|
Five: 44 Hours, 12 Minutes
|
11.6%
|
#FFB
|
He could already walk. But this was a dream, so of course things didn’t have to make sense
|
June 28, 2023 17:32
|
Four: 50 Hours
|
10.7%
|
#FFB
|
Oh, ho-ho, Cigar, we are going to have a lot of fun together.”
|
June 28, 2023 17:31
|
Four: 50 Hours
|
10.0%
|
#FFB
|
“God,” Jamilla said. “God’s hand.”
|
June 28, 2023 17:30
|
Four: 50 Hours
|
9.7%
|
#FFB
|
He couldn’t feel it.
And then he couldn’t feel anything.
|
June 28, 2023 13:28
|
Four: 50 Hours
|
9.4%
|
#FFB
|
So he touched one of the avatars.
|
June 28, 2023 13:21
|
Three: 53 Hours, 52 Minutes
|
7.9%
|
#FFB
|
“Diana.”
|
June 28, 2023 13:08
|
Two: 64 Hours, 57 Minutes
|
6.3%
|
#FFB
|
Work came first in Albert’s world, and Caine knew that he was king only so long as Albert kept everyone fed and watered.
|
June 28, 2023 13:07
|
Two: 64 Hours, 57 Minutes
|
6.2%
|
#FFB
|
Its father is evil. So is its mother,” she whispered
|
June 28, 2023 13:07
|
Two: 64 Hours, 57 Minutes
|
6.2%
|
#FFB
|
“How can it not be the same?”
|
June 28, 2023 12:39
|
Outside
|
1.9%
|
#FFB
|
They’d found her and removed what was left of the girl to a facility where she was kept alive.
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