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… research vessel turned Antarctic tourist ship Akademic Shokalskiy set a new record, though not by much: less than … They build nests out of pebbles, and they growl if you come too close. Adélie neighbors shamelessly steal one … froze instantly on our GORE-TEX, crusting us white like bodies left out in the cold. 3. Depth charts don’t exist …
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… Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction, drank too much coffee. Through the coming days and nights, I lost the will to read, to sleep or … the Semal trees on the roadside, perched on the hills. Also called silk cotton trees, they blossom at the end of … non-COVID-19 deaths, including ninety-six workers who died on trains. As I sat at home, helpless and angry at the …
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… a little bit of water left in a bottle. Because if people complain? Oof. Even if they miss a receipt that maybe they … stay open-minded, but they don’t come to Chile as professionals, they’re not architects or engineers. They are workers … with for the rest of my life, and if we’re separated or he died I don’t think I’ll ever marry again. But the only love …
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… Fossil Combing A #VQRTrueStory Essay 1. “You’ve come in the worst … always taken Mary and Joseph with him to hunt for fossils, died in 1810. At a time when the salubrious effect of the … night, at the St. Michael’s Churchyard, Natalie Manifold points out the single tombstone engraved with the names of …
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… Bart, “but ’twas not. ’Twas the Miami Showband.” Bart’s come to help me set up a projector at Trinity College, where … sisters back home in Sligo, or did. I lose track of the maladies. Dead, dead, dead. That’s the main fact, and Aidan’s … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
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… when a friend texts: “I lost two of my best friends. They died just in front of my eyes.” And: “Now I really feel how … the body. They want to kill humanity and hope.” I work in communication, I work in doing, but there’s nothing I can … The children giggle. The evening air is full of sound and also still. A soccer game, a yell, a heavy door slams. The …