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Yesterday it was the Boston Marathon, with crowds gathered, police ready, the runners covered with suntan oils, many limbering up, even wheelchair participants checking their equipment like careful auto mechanics with their tools of all sorts.
It was their tailored hell, with piglets squalling, nuns aflame, horses rolling in bushes of thorns, children blowing over the mouths of green bottles, demolition derby cars painted with scripture.
2.
Hesitant but not uncertain, and drawing from libraries all of her knowledge, she walked into the room for her comprehensive examination, with a feeling that was certainly not calm, because there would always be the unknown.
Nauseated and intermittently retching, and attempting to remember the names of all his mother's friends, he fell down the stairs that led up to his apartment and into a garden bed.
3.
Once or twice the siren, obscured by the sudden explosion, echoed but with a dreadful parody of itself sounded with a noise like a banshee.
Five thousand times the hummingbirds, driven insane by the smell of molasses, pecked the eyes out of rabbits and cats.
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