Starters

March 23, 2016 by joachim

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1. In the hills of that country, animals the size of your thumbnail used to sit on the branches of elm trees and sing. …

2. Herb made a fast, determined movement with his left hand – he was left-handed from birth, or as long as he could remember – and the little green man countered his move without blinking, for lack of eyelids, the poor devil! …

3. There was a box in the middle of the room, and nobody dared to touch it. Nigerian diplomats used to live in boxes of this size, among less animated objects. …

4. In the Engadin, that sweet claustrophobic part of Switzerland, there lived two well-goitered brothers, let us call them Ueli and Andreas, the peaceful life of federally subsidized farmers, until they were struck by fate. …

5. Before the invention of nuclear weapons, which are going to drive this story to its inevitable conclusion, even trigger-happy presidents lacked decisive ways to act. …

6. The first time I saw Michael’s bony face was in the swimming pool of a Holiday Inn. It might have been a small town in South Florida, where young bodies look conspicuous, out of place. …
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