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Ad libitum
Legend was, before the chain, in the time before time, there were two suns eternally on the horizon. But such is legend that it defies explanation. The lion yawned and wiggled its whiskers. The sun had...
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Admeasure
Long after he’d grown inured to the rotting flesh atop him, when the daylight crawled back out of the gray hole it had been cowering in, the dogs came. The wolves had been at the heaps all night but...
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Administer
I gasp for breath in this rough air, so unlike the salted sea. I sit, gasping, tied to the earth, this wooden chair, where nothing stinks of brine, nothing rushes up to push me out yon window. When the...
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Adonis
Of Adonis, who is called Thammuz, this tale is often told. The goddess of passion Aphrodite, spying Adonis as a babe in Araby, was so entranced by his beauty that she locked him in a cedar chest and...
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Adorable
The bear was not the tidiest of maids. He was a fair hand at dusting, with the duster clasped firmly in his teeth, and he never let anything remain on the floor that did not belong there. Without...
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Adrenal
Charlie pulled the long coat off his shoulders. His back was already starting to sweat. His back and the back of his neck, and his armpits, the pits of his knees, his palms, and his scalp. They were...
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Adulate
And here is the thing about rhinoceri: They can be remarkably stubborn. Now it is true that Africa is home to several innately stubborn animals. Lions are not particularly stubborn unless their spouses...
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Adumbrate
It seems obvious now that my propensity for eating whatever crossed my path and jaculating fire would set me on the path to demolishing major metropolitan areas. In truth, it was not what I had in mind...
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Adunc
Christina had a parrot that growled. Cleo noticed it immediately when he visited her flat. She happily waved him inside and took a slight bow, like a doorman for a grand hotel, and in he went, happy to...
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Dr. Laurence Packer: On Keeping the Bees
Dr. Laurence Packer has been a lifelong entomologist. Bees are his specialty, but his interest in six-legged creatures began at a very early age. “When I was too young to […]
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