From The Fever Cabinet, by Frankie Bow

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Dan always looked kind of gray....But today he looked like his own ghost. [How to Be Your Own Ghost?]

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I have a theory that Iker may be an angel in human form, except I can't work out why an angel would have been sent to earth to teach accounting.

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"You don't think the flowers are a bit garish?" Fiona asked us.

"I think Nature is allowed to be garish," I said. "Things like orchids and sunsets should be colorful. I mean, who wants a tasteful rainbow, right? What would that even look like?"

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Talking with her mother often made Fiona feel like she was trying to read a book that had random pages torn out.

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"Fiona told you Emmett was, wait, how's the British way to say it, getting a leg up on Maureen? Bubbling her squeak?"

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