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/ Awash with unfocused desire, Everett    \
| twisted the lobe of his one remaining   |
| ear and felt the presence of somebody   |
| else behind him, which caused terror to |
| push through his nervous system like a  |
| flash flood roaring down the mid-fork   |
| of the Feather River before the         |
| completion of the Oroville Dam in 1959. |
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| -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award,    |
| 1984 Bulwer-Lytton                      |
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\ bad fiction contest.                    /
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