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  1. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    But the fact was, Sherrie Marla trusted him already. When he took the ice off, and showed to her his new symmetry, she didn't flinch. His face was him to her now. It was not a map or an indicator of some abstract idea. Turned out it was only the first impression he needed to alter.
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  2. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    It's tempting to think of red for sun," she said, "but it has to be just a dash, not much. More of a dark orange and a hint of brown. And then white on yellow on white. Not bright white,' she said. 'The kind of white that makes you squint, but in a softer way...''Go look at fire for a while. Go spend some time with fire.'Looking at fire was interesting, I have to admit. I sat with a candle for a couple hours. It has these stages of color: the white, the yellow, the red, the tiny spot of blue I'd heard mentioned but never noticed.
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  3. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.
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  4. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building.
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  5. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.
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  6. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind.
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  7. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    Now she and the widow had something in common, though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton. It just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horses's mane, it did not leave, once lodged, did it? It simply changed form, and asked repeatedly for attention and care as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider, smaller, sure, but never gone...Out of my body, these beautiful monsters.
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  8. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    She thought of how she had never sat and had a long conversation with her father because he, too, refused to talk about himself. "Someone else should speak instead," he said. "If I don't speak, it means someone else will," which did not always turn out to be true.
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  9. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    By her estimation, the woman had probably been five years old during the height of the war. Listening to panicked voices in the next room. The majority of the living memories now owned by then-children.
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  10. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
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  11. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    The best way I can think to describe it, she said, ' is the way, when you're driving on the freeway at night how everyone can see the moon in their window. Every car on the road. Every car feels the moon is following that car, even in the other direction, right? Everyone in that entire hemisphere can see the moon and think it is there for them, is following where they go.
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  12. Aimee Bender _ The Color Master: Stories

    Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something."'To someone else.' 'To someone.
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