"My dream begins like all the others I have had about the spirits."
"The piercing roar of hydroplanes split the air over the shallow, muddy river."
"I know my neighborhood by heart, so it wouldn't be hard to walk from our apartment to the stores blindfolded."
"The trouble all started right before the first day of sixth grade, the last time Franklin and I played Knights."
"My Aunt Louisa, who is really my sister, snored like a machine with a broken part, a broken part that kept cycling around in a shuddering, sputtering rhythm."
"There was very crazy knocking noise going on at my front door that I was pretending not to hear."
"A monumental tapestry decorates the wide back wall of the Great Hall in Hladka Hvorka, my family's large old castle."
"Sensible students succeed splendidly!" said Ms. Span, a primly dressed teacher sitting behind a computer at the front of the class, her thick black eyebrows arching over the top of her reading glasses.
"The last place I thought I'd be when this day began is where I am, which is in a car."
"Frankie was the first to know."
"In the spring of 1903, Sadie Frowne, age thirteen, and her mother sailed into New York Harbor aboard a steamship crowded with immigrants from Europe."
"For some people it's the smell of sunblock."
"Today is Tết, the first day of the lunar calendar."
"I'm sitting on a filthy chimney, eighty stories above street level, watching from the shadows as one of my personal top five dumbest villains tries his best to wrap his mind around a hostage situation of his own creation."
"Alexander Hamilton should have been born in his grandfather's fogbound castle on the west coast of Scotland, the same castle where his father, James, had been born, along with James's three older brothers."
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