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Daily Calendar
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Rebecca arrived early each morning, inspired by the gleaming office that offered such a cheerful contrast to her brooding, closed-off home.
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zDepth sparkled with quiet order. A sleek monitor, clear glass bud vase, and receptionist console perched like beaming Buddhas on the polished granite front desk.
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Nightmare Ghosts
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The house was manageable now. Dorothy blocked off the upstairs with a rampart of gem colored jars packed with pickles, preserves and tinctures.
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Each murky jar contained herbs whose protective properties she garnered from Culpeper's Complete Herbal, found in Nate's study, the brittle pages still uncut.
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A Lunch Date
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J.D. called her at work, having learned from locals that Rebecca was well-placed at the exciting, if indecipherable, new game company.
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After she took the call, Rebecca was glad that J.D.'s first sense of her voice was her practiced "zDepth, Advanced Gaming Technologies? May I help you?"
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Trick and Switch
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Pearl languished on the sofa, her temples throbbing. She would like to be swimming with Washo right now but her monthlies precluded that.
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She heard Lily step out, her footsteps heading towards the shady orchards. A hot, sage-scented breeze billowed the thin summer curtains.
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Wizards and Witches
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The goth girls Gina and Molly ran the Quality Assurance department. Molly recruited local teenagers to playtest zDepth's proprietary gaming technology.
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Gina was the lead tester who crafted reverse engineering plans to find and replicate bugs in each numbered version of the complex, multiplayer game.
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Forgiveness Forgotten
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Nate didn't die of a broken heart. The doctor said he died of congenital heart failure. But for years Rebecca believed she had burst his heart with her troubles.
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Inexplicable, shocking events unfurled relentlessly during the breathless week of her very first love affair and it's deadly repercussions.
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Click Here if You Love Me by Leslie Wilson