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I'm a very neat monster.

Jeff Lindsay

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?
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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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