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  1. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    You know that part in the story where the character thinks, I bet I didn't really see a ghost after all. I bet it was just a sheet. Wearing chains. Floating through our pantry. Shrieking. I bet it was just my imagination. You know how you always kind of hate characters who think that? You hate them, and you know you'd never be so stupid not to know a ghost when you saw one, especially when the title of your story is The Shrieking Specter, for God's sake, pardon my language. This is that part of the story. You
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  2. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    My birth certificate says "Gratuity Tucci," but Mom's called me Turtlebear ever since she learned that "gratuity" didn't mean what she thought it did. My friends call me Tip. I
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  3. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    You know what's weird, though? It's weird that the ark would be such a kids' story, you know? I mean, it's…really a story about death. Every person who isn't in Noah's family? They die. Every animal, apart from the two of each on the boat? They die. They all die in the flood. Billions of creatures. It's the worst tragedy ever," I finished, my voice tied off by a knot in my chest. I'd been speaking too fast without breathing, and I sucked down air before speaking again.
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  4. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    J.Lo looked miserable. You wouldn't think you could tell that when a person's wearing a ghost suit, but you can.
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  5. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    So I sang the first Italian song that came into my head, which turned out to be "Volare." I'm sure I need not mention at this point that I am a rock star, and it sounded fantastic. J.Lo
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  6. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Once I was in a bicycle accident, and I lay in the street for a long time afterward. People surrounded me and wouldn't let me stand up until the paramedics arrived. When they did, they asked if I knew who the president was, and what state I lived in, and how much was three times seven. When I answered everything correctly they seemed pleased, so they asked my name and I said "Gratuity," and then they wouldn't let me up until I told them it was "Janet." Anyway,
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  7. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    I grabbed a bottle of glass cleaner because it comforted me to hold something in my hand that had a trigger, such as it was. I
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  8. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Well, naturally, some of the animals must have escaped from the Wild World Animal Park, and part of it tried to remember if anyone in school ever told us what to do when faced with a lion; but no, of course they didn't, they were too busy teaching really useful things like the state capitals.
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  9. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    The sky looked really great when nearly the entire country was blacked out. Of course, now it looked dangerous, too. I wondered if it would ever be just the night sky again, and not a black sea, full of sharks. Anyway,
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  10. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    But this is what I also thought as I watched the waves of trash crash over the cracked and broken road: that for the rest of us, Arizona would always be one of our places now. It would be on the list of things we own in our heads. Don't we all have this list? It's like, everything that secretly belongs to us-a favorite color, or springtime, or a house we don't live in anymore. We all gained Arizona by coming here, but for the people who already lived here, we could only take something away.
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  11. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
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  12. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Director Tom Stone is currently a potato farmer in Holbrook and could not be reached for comment. RECORDING"
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