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Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.

Rick Riordan

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
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Teacher
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Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Burned
Smell
Worse
Mark
Words
Nothing
Scorpion
Scorpions
Smells

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I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I’m a liar. The truth was, I’d had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.
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He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.
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But how do we even get to the land of the dead?” I asked. “I mean…without dying.
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My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots—how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum?
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