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“polygraphing Motorboat and came up with a flimsy excuse not to do”

— Jack Devine

“It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“During the last job, three people tried to dive under my ambulance. If I was allowed (by government grant or some such) to keep…

— Tom Reynolds

“I deliberately ignored the sight of lean brown body cutting through the aqua water, glistening powerful arms dipping slow and steady in perfect rhythm…

— Josh Lanyon

“I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable…

— Deborah Smith

“Layoffs were upon us. They had been rumored for months, but now it was official. If you were lucky, you could sue. If you…

— Joshua Ferris

“I unzipped my boots but they wouldn’t budge. My feet had swollen in the heat. After much tugging, a queue had started to form…

— Robert Bryndza

“I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product…

— Jean Genet

“i’m not a lake or a river that freezer over so i’ll never break beneath your shoes”

— Keith Birthday

“The other final memory, from growing up on the island, is of going on a monster run one day, and getting very bad groin…

— Bear Grylls

“How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs;…

— Herman Melville