Tag: all that is
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all that is – 6: almost a date
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage He saved the file before he could think better of it. set my world on fire.txt It sat on his Windows desktop among things that pretended to matter: resume, induction notes, a folder called Java that he hadn’t yet opened properly. The clock in…
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all that is – 5: the last days of the 20th century man
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was unmistakably the end of time as we knew it. The twentieth century was down to its final ten breaths, its last flickering fax transmissions, and its remaining struts down the…
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all that is – 3: the stomach charmer
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage It was a truth universally acknowledged, at least by the teachers and half the student body, that his stomach had a mind of its own. On most days, it operated within acceptable parameters—growling at lunch, bubbling during chemistry—but occasionally, it would declare mutiny. This…
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all that is – 2. cats of mayavaram
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage There was, of course, only one type of bus that wandered, rattling and roaring, across the endless sprawl of Tamil Nadu’s roads. No matter what name it carried—Thiruvalluvar or otherwise—each was the same: rusted seats that had borne years of passengers, windows that insisted…
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all that is – 1: spring moon
listen to this chapter now on youtube! go to series homepage Many years later, standing beside his wife in the sterile, antiseptic air of Bellevue hospital’s maternity ward, surrounded by the rhythmic beeping of machines and the soft murmurs of medical staff, he felt his mind drift. Two images, vivid and unbidden, rose to the…
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