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  1. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories
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  2. Pete Hautman _ Godless

    Anyway, the reason I hate communion isn't the meat-eating component. I get hungry enough, I'll eat anything. The reason I hate it is because everybody in the church except me, Jason Bock, stands up and gets in line for their little snack. I sit there alone in the pew while everybody stares at me as they file past. I sit there and burn under hellfire and damnation stare my father gives me. And I feel awful. But what choice do I have? According to Father Haynes, if a nonbeliever takes Holy Communion, he'll be damned for all eternity. Of course, being a nonbeliever damns me anyway, so I suppose it doesn't really matter, but I figure it's safer not to partake. Just in case I'm wrong about the whole God thing.So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if I'm right, and the right thing even if I'm wrong.Being Catholic is hard. Being ex-Catholic is even harder.
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  3. Pete Hautman _ Godless

    I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so much about what you're eating. It's the same with communion wafers...........My point is, the miracle of the Holy Communion is when the priest turns these little white disks into the flesh of Jesus Christ. They call it transubstantiation. So, if you buy that, then the host the priest places on your tongue is actually a silver of Jesus meat. But they make the host as different from meat as they can, so even though communion is a form of cannibalism, nobody gets grossed out. Like with the sausages.
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  4. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    - "Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" - he tapped the side of his head - "he's still here. He never left.
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  5. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    is reality simply a dream we share?"
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  6. Pete Hautman _ The Klaatu Terminus

    What have we done?' he asked, but there was no one to answer him.
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  7. Pete Hautman _ The Klaatu Terminus

    Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.
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  8. Pete Hautman _ The Cydonian Pyramid

    I don't even know what the word strange means anymore... that's really strange.
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  9. Pete Hautman _ The Cydonian Pyramid

    He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.
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  10. Pete Hautman _ Invisible

    Is that my ears ringing, or am I screaming?I am burning and I am blind and I can't find the stairs and I do not know how to get out of Madham.
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  11. Pete Hautman _ Godless

    We sit on the floor in front of his oscillating fan and talk sci-fi, and I am thinking how strange this is that I should be sitting peacefully with Henry Stagg in his bedroom when only a week or so ago he punched me in the face for no reason whatsoever.
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  12. Pete Hautman

    How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it?""I...huh?""How can you understand something you don't believe in?""Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechauns unless you believe in them.""Do you understand leprechauns?
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