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[libri vermis]

There's a big moon glowing in the sky, a swollen circle of silvery-gold light that looks as though it is sitting right on top of the old Clark Building, balancing there on the northeast corner where the twisted remains of a smokestack rises up from the roof like a long, tottery flagpole, colors lowered for the night, or maybe like a tin giant's arm making some kind of semaphore that only other tin giants can understand.

 

The Ivory and the Horn by Charles De Lint

[chesilbeach]

It was early March and raining.

 

Pack Up The Moon by Anna McPartlin

[Stephanie2008]

It's another Iraqi town, nameless to the Marines racing down the main drag in Humvees, blowing it to pieces.

 

Generation Kill by Evan Wright.

[Weave]

'All right', said the straw~haired woman in the denim jacket.

 

~ Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris

[Nightwish]

"Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an over-whelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart." - PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

[poppyshake]

Shadow had done three years in prison.

 

'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman

[AbielleRose]

It wasn't a very likely place for disappearences, at least at first glance.

 

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

[Charm]

The inscription was the only thing Dr Jack Seward could focus on as he felt the darkness overtake him.

 

Dracula The Un-Dead ~ Dacre Stoker

[Amika]

The woman looked completely out of place in her pristine white blouse and tailored ivory pants.

 

Midnight Rising - Lara Adrian

[lexiepiper]

Isabel picked at the ragged threads that once hugged a shiny button on the front of her blazer.

 

Elizabeth Flock - But Inside I'm Screaming

[Nightwish]

"Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house." - Gerald's Game by Stephen King

[LindseyandMatthew]

'It's seven O'clock on Monday morning and the removal men have been here since six'

 

Diva's Don't Knit-Gil McNeil

[Sedge]

My earliest memories of Wharton are of a time when I did not know that any other place existed.

 

The Missing Will - Michael Wharton

Edited December 11, 2009 by Sedge

[Stephanie2008]

"Of all the ****, ****, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my **** life"

 

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Edited December 11, 2009 by Stephanie2008

[Kylie]

This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer all or any of these questions.

 

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

[Rawr]

'Well, look at this - we're all here - we made it back again.' - Four Past Midnight, Stephen King.

[lexiepiper]

It was lying between the coal dump and the goods wagons under some bits of wood and it was a miracle that no one had found it before me.

 

Tove Jansson - A Winter Book

[lyn]

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

[Wilde Lily]

Moon. Glorious moon

 

~ Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

[Dimitra]

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable child ever seen.

 

The Secret Garden by F.G.Burnett

[lexiepiper]

Rosalia came into his life during his gap year.

 

Natasha Mostert - The Keeper

[Sedge]

The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place, sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft gabble of geese.

 

The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan

[aquarius91]

When I first got the call, I thought he'd died.

 

Marian Keyes- Other side of the story

[lexiepiper]

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say.

 

Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture

[Stephanie2008]

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

 

Stardust by Neil Gaiman