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  1. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    - "Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" - he tapped the side of his head - "he's still here. He never left.
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  2. Pete Hautman _ Otherwood

    The dead live in our memories."
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  3. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    America had invented itself. It continued to invent itself as it went along. Sometimes its virtues made it the envy of the world. Sometimes it betrayed the very heart of its ideals. Sometimes the people dispensed with what was difficult or inconvenient to acknowledge. So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were no plaques to commemorate mistakes. But the past didn't forget. History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required period exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences.
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  4. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    Every city is a ghost.New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.
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  5. Libba Bray _ Lair of Dreams

    For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.
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  6. James W Loewen _ Lies My Teacher Told Me:

    Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference.
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  7. Nathan Reese Maher

    That's a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, 'I'm going to fly in my Model-A1'
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  8. Nathan Reese Maher

    She leaves my side and heads deeper int
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  9. Nathan Reese Maher

    History doesn't start with a tall buildin
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  10. Nathan Reese Maher

    There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomac
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  11. Nathan Reese Maher

    Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of los
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  12. Richard Brautigan _ Revenge of the Lawn: Stories

    I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads. I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.
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