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Vol.
26, Iss. 3: When
she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for
filling her mouth with marbles.
Vol.
26, Iss. 2: "Thank
you for taking the time to meet with me today."
Vol.
26, Iss. 1: Mr.
Morton needed a new pair of shoes.
Vol.
25, Iss. 4: It
was the farthest north they had ever been.
Vol.
25, Iss. 3: As
soon as Harriet entered the building, she headed to the seventh
floor.
Vol.
25, Iss. 2: All
the lawns on Mentone Avenue are mowed on Wednesdays.
Vol.
25, Iss. 1: I
am the second Mrs. Roberts.
Vol.
24, Iss. 4: When
he died, their father had two requests.
Vol.
24, Iss. 3: Lily
unlocked the back door of the thrift store using a key that didn't
belong to her.
Vol.
24, Iss. 2: Thomas
hadn't expected to be alive when the town's time capsule was opened.
Vol.
24, Iss. 1: Rayna
sat in front of the mirror removing her makeup and wondered who
she would discover underneath.
Vol.
23, Iss. 4: Later
that evening, they sat alone in their apartment, wondering if they
had made the right decision.
Vol.
23, Iss. 3: "What
should we do with the body?".
Vol.
23, Iss. 2: Lena
was raised on violin lessons and minimal parental supervision.
Vol.
23, Iss. 1: Darryl slid three quarters into the vending machine
and weighed his options.
Vol.
22, Iss. 4: Loud music filled the room, making it hard to hear
anything else.
Vol.
22, Iss. 3: The Simmons Public Library was a melting pot of
the haves and have-nots, a mixture of homeless people and the wealthy
older residents of the nearby neighborhood.
Vol.
22, Iss. 2: The door was locked.
Vol.
22, Iss. 1: Ravi had just worked a double shift and was having
trouble keeping his eyes open.
Vol.
21, Iss. 4: Anniversary Issue #4
Vol.
21, Iss. 3:
Anniversary Issue #3
Vol.
21, Iss. 2:
Anniversary Issue #2
Vol.
21, Iss. 1:
Anniversary Issue #1
Vol.
20, Iss. 4: As she trudged down the alley, Cenessa saw a small
________.
Vol.
20, Iss. 3: The window was open just enough to let in the cool
night air.
Vol.
20, Iss. 2: "I wanted you to be the first to know,"
Rowan tentatively confided in me.
Vol.
20, Iss. 1: Leo massaged the back of his neck, thankful the
meeting was finally over.
Vol.
19, Iss. 4: "I'm tired of trying to see the good in people."
Vol.
19, Iss. 3: Frank Rooney had been the manager of the Shop &
Save for thirty-eight years, and he wasn't retiring anytime soon.
Vol. 19, Iss. 2: The plan suddenly made sense.
Vol. 19, Iss. 1: Eddie
tended to drift into whatever jobs were available that would pay
the rent.
Vol.
18, Iss. 4: In the six years I
spent tracking David Addley, it never occurred to me that he didn't
exist.
Vol.
18, Iss. 3: Mrs. Morrison was
too busy to die.
Vol.
18, Iss. 2: By the fifteenth month
of the drought, the lake no longer held her secrets.
Vol.
18, Iss. 1: "Unfortunately, there
is no mistake," she said, closing the file.
Vol.
17, Iss. 4: George pressed the
call button and said, "Mrs. Whitfield, you have a visitor.
Vol.
17, Iss. 3: The old neighborhood
was nearly unrecognizable.
Vol.
17, Iss. 2: Laura liked to think
she was honest with herself; it was everyone else she lied to.
Vol. 17, Iss. 1: Fairy tales hardly
ever come true for quiet girls.
Vol.
16, Iss. 4: We went as far as the car would take us.
Vol. 16, Iss. 3: Fifty miles west of Bloomington lies Hillsboro,
a monument to middle-class malaise.
Vol.
16, Iss. 2: "Please, Sylvia, give me a moment to think."
Vol.
16, Iss. 1: Carlos discovered [blank] under a pile of shoes
in the back of his grandmother's closet.
Vol.
15, Iss. 4: I came of age in a time of no heroes.
Vol.
15, Iss. 3: There must have been thousands standing in the rain
that day.
Vol.
15, Iss. 2: I started collecting secrets when I was just six
years old.
Vol.
15, Iss. 1: On a perfect spring morning with flat seas and clear
blue skies, Captain Eli P. Cooke made a terrible mistake.
Vol.
14, Iss. 4: Sometimes, when it's quiet, I can remember what
my life was like before moving to Cedar Springs.
Vol.
14, Iss. 3: A light snow was falling as Charlie Reardon left
the diner and made his way down Madison Street.
Vol.
14, Iss. 2: Rachel's first trip to England didn't go as planned.
Vol.
14, Iss. 1: "There are a few things you need to know before
we start."
Vol.
13, Iss. 4: It had been a long year.
Vol.
13, Iss. 3: Edwin spotted them the moment he stepped off the
train.
Vol.
13, Iss. 2: "We need to talk."
Vol.
13, Iss. 1: Sam was a loyal employee.
Vol.
12, Iss. 4: Until I stumbled across an article about him in
the paper, I never realized how much Walter Dodge and I are alike.
Vol.
12, Iss. 3: Three thousand habitable planets in the known universe,
and I'm stuck on the only one without [blank].
Vol.
12, Iss. 2: Paul and Miriam Kaufman met the old-fashioned way.
Vol.
12, Iss. 1: Working for God is never easy.
Vol.
11, Iss. 4: Waiting for change always seems to take longer than
you would expect.
Vol.
11, Iss. 3: "My life is a sham."
Vol.
11, Iss. 2: For two weeks now, I've been trying to figure out
if people are laughing with me or at me.
Vol.
11, Iss. 1: Herman Sligo was a bit actor who played Uncle Emil
in three episodes of the popular television series The Five Sisters.
Vol.
10, Iss. 4: While not the intended effect, the outcome was surprisingly
satisfying.
Vol.
10, Iss. 3: Roy owned the only drive-thru funeral business in
Maine.
Vol.
10, Iss. 2: Nick had considered himself a lucky guy, until now.
Vol.
10, Iss. 1: Sometimes the name they give you is all wrong.
Vol.
9, Iss. 4: After nine years of marriage, Mary knew that the
holidays were not a good time to ask her husband for a favor.
Vol.
9, Iss. 3: Calvin once complained that there were not enough
[blank]
in the world.
Vol.
9, Iss. 2: My first impression of Phillip was that he was blessed
with ignorance.
Vol.
9, Iss. 1: In Pigwell, time is not measured in days or weeks
but by the number of eighteen wheelers that drive past my house.
Vol.
8, Iss. 4: It was her silent affirmations that kept her from
going completely insane.
Vol.
8, Iss. 3: When my brother, Andrew, went away to college, he
left me his fishing pole, a well-read copy of The Wind in the Willows,
and a stack of Playboys.
Vol.
8, Iss. 2: Tessa sent up a hasty prayer for forgiveness as she
slipped on the dress Mamma had bought her in exchange for a promise
not to marry Al.
Vol.
8, Iss. 1: Mamma has always had a love for other people's possessions.
Vol.
7, Iss. 4: "That was the best game we've ever had!"
Vol.
7, Iss. 3: Having little to his name when he died, the reading
of Henry Fromm's will went quickly.
Vol.
7, Iss. 2: As the warrior guided [his/her] horse back home,
[he/she] pondered what the future might hold.
Vol.
7, Iss. 1: Life would be so much easier if I were a cartoon
character.
Vol.
6, Iss. 4: The inside was dark.
Vol.
6, Iss. 3: I was born Rosa Carlotta Silvana Grisanti, but in
the mid-Eighties, I legally changed my name to Eve.
Vol.
6, Iss. 2: "Why are you always so cynical?"
Vol.
6, Iss. 1: There were five of them, which was two more than
I'd been expecting.
Vol.
5, Iss. 4: I opened my e-mail with a mix of apprehension and
excitement.
Vol.
5, Iss. 3: "So, all of it was just a lie?"
Vol.
5, Iss. 2: The view from up here is incredible and makes me
feel [blank].
Vol.
5, Iss. 1: Paul Fischer was a graduate student studying biochemistry
at Emory when he met my mother.
Vol.
4, Iss. 4: I can't believe I just heard that.
Vol.
4, Iss. 3: Jimmy Hanson was a sallow man who enjoyed little
in life save for his [blank].
Vol.
4, Iss. 2: "The incident on the island is the stuff of legend,
but let me tell you the real story."
Vol.
4, Iss. 1: The first thing I saw when I woke was Chris' face.
Vol.
3, Iss. 6: "How did you end up with a nickname like that?"
Vol.
3, Iss. 5: "Please state your name for the court."
Vol.
3, Iss. 4: "Step this way as our tour of Earth continues."
Vol.
3, Iss. 3: Hal couldn't sleep.
Vol.
3, Iss. 2: The party was only the beginning of what would happen
tonight.
Vol.
3, Iss. 1: "It was the only thing he couldn't do for her."
Vol.
2, Iss. 6: It sounded like she said, "Every day when I get home,
I find a naked body in the bed."
Vol.
2, Iss. 5: Whitney Heather Yates knew she was in trouble from
the moment she learned how to spell her name.
Vol.
2, Iss. 4: I remember the radio was playing the best song.
Vol.
2, Iss. 3: My father and I left on a Thursday.
Vol.
2, Iss. 2: The person on the train kept saying, "I believe,"
over and over and over.
Vol.
2, Iss. 1: The picture told the entire story.
Vol.
1, Iss. 4: As the curtain rose, the scenario began to play itself
out.
Vol.
1, Iss. 3: "Well, there's ten minutes of my life I'll never
get back."
Vol.
1, Iss. 2: The rules are clearly spelled out in the brochure.
Vol.
1, Iss. 1: Just like his fifth grade teacher, Mr. Young, had
always told him, Brian put on his thinking cap.
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Last Line
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