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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Rest
Deadly
Went
Lightning
Shrieked
Call
Carried
Mournful
Song
Creature
Spike
Death
Ended
Altering
Like
Likely
Blade
Fast
Blades
Creatures
Lean

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I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
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Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
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