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19. Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy.
Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas" (1973)
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18. The Little One looked up into his mother's face in perfect faith.
Sui Sin Far, "In the Land of the Free" (1890)
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17. The land belongs to the future
Willa Cather, O Pioneers (1913)
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16. don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid (1978)
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April 2023
15. The whole city was at the mercy of the mob
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Mob Rule in New Orleans" (1900)
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14. The melancholy of those black days have left so long a shadow that it darkens the path of years
Zitkála-Šá, "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" (1900)
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March 2023
13. Before a hurricane, the animals that can, leave.
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (2011)
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12. New eyes were given to him.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
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11. What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb?
Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron" (1886)
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It was the man who had been everything, and yet this person was nothing.
Henry James, Washington Square (1881)
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Now had I approached within the shadow of the cloud, into the thick darkness whereof I was soon to disappear...
Solomon Northup, from Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
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February 2023
The only lasting truth is Change.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
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