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The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Seems
Gray
Slowly
Disks
Round
Layered
Rounds
Disk
Move
Pressing
Though
Grind
Hours
Flat
Moving
Flats

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