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Saphora pulled my hand and told me not to be afraid as I followed her down the hallway.  The first thing I noticed was that her voice wasn’t right, even before I understood her words. Her voice was

  Phoebe slowed on Ventura Boulevard behind a gold and black VisionCorp Intrigue that had stopped in the left lane. For some reason, it was waiting to turn into the Whole Foods parking lot despite

Here's an interesting investigation of "poet voice" I found on Minds.com so I just posted the link.

Myron Renault leaned against the office doorjamb, surveying his sector on a Friday afternoon. With less than two hours left in the work week, it seemed a managerial type of thing to do—an easy

START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION     Soul and Tirion sat at the back of the Tendril Lounge, a high-end nightclub in the port of Ophir, the Empire’s colony on Avareen in the Durne system.

Working up along the wall of the canyon The sun bright, reflecting off of wet stone, The air cool and dry. Three hours of climbing fell away below Down to the cabin with the tiny finger of gray smoke.

START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION   “Monsoon, this is Fort Wallace Naval Air Control. Over.” Wu’s eyes narrowed, focused on the targeting console. Shannon had served his purpose but returned

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  START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION   Paris-16 had grown from what was originally just an outpost of Fort Wallace into a major city, sprawling rapidly across the basin of an enormous

It was the seventies, before we knew how the Earth would die. The theme was nuclear war and they had us doing drills in public school. I can remember hiding under my desk and protecting the back of my

   START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION Wu Liang sat in the corner of the Grind Down Café with his back to the airfield. He had the corner chair. That was his seat. That was his throne.

START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION Armand opened his eyes and the girl was right there with him, the pixie-eyed coed with short red hair and nerdy glasses. Everyone else was hiding but this girl

Sitting in the proud old boat Of creaking boards A single oar A weekend sacrificed entire From morning’s dark ‘til dusk shall fall So early? This is when they bite, boy! Indentured to a father’s father’s

  START AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST SECTION   Kel came out of the stairwell at a full run into the first floor lobby in the northwest corner of building R. Somebody had pulled the fire alarm.

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