No Place for Monsters Flashcards
More like never there to begin with.
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Listen: If the knowledge is in my brain, they’ll be able to access it and use it against us.
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Maybe the memory eraser malfunctioned.
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You blew through that stupid jellyfish-thingy assignment before I even had a chance to contribute!
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It was small and decrepit, but shave away some rust, rearrange the seats, fortify the windows…not a bad hideout.
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My mom wanted me home by five thirty!
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Something scurried across the road ahead of him.
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The stranger stopped whistling…leaned against the lamppost…tipped its hat.
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Neighbors lined the sidewalk as the ice cream truck rolled down the street.
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And then her eyes fixed on the ivy-strangled house across the street.
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What have you done to my garden?
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A fence is just a fence, but the plants are priceless!
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I eat elephants for lunch and rhinos for dinner!!!
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If she kisses you, she’ll give you brain-eating worms!
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I don’t have a brother!
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But you’ve got to believe me: something is wrong.
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It was a warm smile - not the smirk she wore when trying to impress her friends.
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What happened to her room?
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Your own family has forgotten her.
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I’m saying either they’ll think you’re crazy, or they’ll think you know too much.
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And this two-liter soda bottle is the rocket.
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Sorry about the freak-out this morning.
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The bed was stuffed with pillows, and in the darkness, it made a passable decoy.
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No, he could never sleep at a time like this.
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It had you in some sort of trance and was dragging you out the window
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You have the wrong house
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He stared longingly at the people lining the streets as they chatted and laughed and savored their frozen treats.
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Three sheep have been found dead over the course of the week at German Farm.
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I thought we were supposed to be stealthy!
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The sheep erupted in a wave of confusion and terror, and a runt on the fringe was torn from the mass.
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There was a flash of green fluorescence as the creature’s eyes flickered open.
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You’ve only made things worse!
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They crept through mist and over lichen encrusted stones to the edge of a dark pool
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You have one last chance to give your address before I’ll be forced to make a citizen’s arrest!
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These children fit the description.
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When the Watch stoops to harassing my grandchildren, it most certainly is my business!
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Then she turned and slipped down the sidewalk, away from the ivy-strangled house, away from the quiet neighborhood, to the shadows at the edge of town.
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The sense of safety and order is likely the very thing that drew the Boojum here.
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WE got wrapped in ivy, scratched by thorns, breathed in the pollen.
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Cicada trilled
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Katydid rasped
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Cricket chirped
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I’m sure your dad’s a nice guy once you get to know him
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I think it’s under the house!
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They stood in the middle of the walk while the overgrowth twisted around them
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Misshapen shadows skittered just beyond the streetlight’s glow
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You look like you’ve seen the bogeyman
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One little breath and you’ll sleep forevermore
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The ice cream man pulled a vial of sand from his coat
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The vine thatched onto the ice cream man’s face and lashed with budding thorns.
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If those crates come loose and spill, we’ll be buried under twenty tons of ice cream.
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They rounded a corner just in time to see the spiny thing slip through the gap in the warehouse door.
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The pipe expanded and became the gritty stone of an underground tunnel lit by bioluminescent fungus
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Where the ditzies are my eyes?!
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All sugar and sprinkles and spores and spice!
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Questions and confuddlements will be addressed at the end of the tour.
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Oh, but they forgot us, the underground dwellers, hiding just below the crust, watching the human-folk grow soft and dull
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True, but we are very fond of electrochemical pulses, especially the sort produced by dreams.
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Run, goofooligans!
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Let the wild rumbus commence!
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They slipped past the rioting workers, dashed down the main tunnel, veered left, darted right, slipped left, and dove through the stone arches Heckbender had described
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Plus she was working for the bad guys, remember?
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I’m offering you a chance to be my new shepherd
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But it turns out you’re just a bully who likes stupid mind games.
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I’m sick of all the pretending and lying
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He reached the nearest veil of nothing-threads and swung the cane
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He darted back and forth, waking the other children, hauling them upright
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Behind, he could hear the clatter of stones as the tunnel collapsed
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They’d shed their trappings - the ties and shirts and clipboards - and gone back to their true nature
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They were slouched and shuffling, but at that moment, they somehow managed to be majestic
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We’ll do everything we can, she said, but you need to stay here with the others.
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And please, understand we did everything we could to find your friend
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If this note fails to scratch that lingering itch, please cast it aside with the cobwebs
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The hand wobbled, as if two minds were fighting for control.
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The ripe fall apple lay in three pieces amid the grass, it’s juice droplets sparkling in the daylight
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Think anyone will believe our story?
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