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A Minority Of One: 1 / 9
soon as he told me the changes, I forgot them all. I asked, “Did you catch that asshole? I would love ... change, but the fact is, you are now a minor. That’s an important, determinant fact. Physiologically, you ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/11 - 8:27am - 9 comments
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A Minority Of One: 2 / 9
still the same person, not even inside. I was somebody else now. Everything had changed or was going to ... change. But not tonight. I could hold everything off for one night. I’d take my shower in the morning, and ... THEN everything could change. Tomorrow, I’d see my friends, Theresa, Meredith, and Max. Now that I’d ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/13 - 8:06am - 13 comments
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A Minority Of One: 4 / 9
Lois sighed. “Simon was pretty busy on that while he was here. He changed the password, but Ken should ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/14 - 7:50am - 10 comments
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A Minority Of One: 5 / 9
box. Standing on a chair, I scrubbed at the grime on top. I had to keep changing the water, it became ... I tried to throw her a life line by changing topic. “So you want to get a small apartment, all by ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/14 - 9:01am - 11 comments
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A Minority Of One: 6 / 9
“Hey, did you change your name?” Mr. Waters frowned, not getting the joke. So I added, “Are you Mr. ... smile. His voice changed completely. I looked into his eyes and saw the same look Celine once had — in ... Haven’t you heard? The leopard can’t change his spots. ” “You, of all people, should know it isn’t true.” ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/15 - 7:38am - 8 comments
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A Minority Of One: 7 / 9
um, well, I can change.” “No, don’t bother.” “I was going to tackle the basement.” “No. No. Not in ... “You don’t want to get your pretty dress dirty.” “Should I change?” I asked, uncertain. “I — I can run ... upstairs and change.” “No,” she said. “Don’t bother. The dress survived Celine, I’m sure it will survive ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/16 - 7:58am - 7 comments
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A Minority Of One: 8 / 9
— or part of the problem, anyway. It was this new dynamic, my new role. Things had changed. I wasn’t an ... a change. Hopefully, it would last. “I’m surprised she told you all that,” Ken was saying. “That’s pretty ... family in the lurch. It was his suburban-father ethos, but he went to an extreme.” Lois’ face changed ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/18 - 11:52am - 5 comments
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A Minority Of One: 9 / 9
couldn’t make sense it. “What? What about the Ponzi guy?” “He said he’d change me back!” the women wailed ... from the ground. “I told him everything! He said he’d change me back! ” Then whole thing hit me like ... “Please! Change me back! You told me that you’d change me back! Please, I’m begging you! I’ve done ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2021/01/19 - 8:18am - 11 comments
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Another Switcher
we ask that you change into. I understand that you were a man before. So if you have trouble with the ... can change in the latrine over there, miss.” I took the clothes and looked at them. It was some kind ... “Just sign here as Deanna Hinkley and your identity change is complete.” Mr. Sanders looked tired. “All ...
Melanie Brown - 2020/01/04 - 9:22pm - 8 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 1 / 19
felt we were about the same age. The change seemed very abrupt to me: Suddenly, my hair was white. ... to take quite an incredibly dramatic turn: A jack-knife change of direction that would land me with ... quickly!" I waved my arms to give her a visual aid. Frowning even more deeply, she decided to change tack. ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/29 - 12:39pm - 10 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 11 / 19
mud, coating my car, obscuring my windows. The lights inside the car wash changed to red and a carpet ... mechanical arms and scrubbed my car. Jets of water washed it clean. The lights changed to white and a thick ... upgrade, and it looks like he was right. Congratulations! I hope you're happy with the change ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:07pm - 5 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 12 / 19
"Would it bother you if I changed my name?" "Uh, no — why? Why do you think it would bother ... more and more used to that name, to that being me." "Interesting. Do you think changing ... — who am I? I'm Merope. I can't *not* be Merope, even if I changed my name. That's how ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/26 - 5:03am - 7 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 13 / 19
"I'll go change right now." "No, no," she said. "It's fine. I have to leave in ... tedious, describing something that changes so little, one day to the next." "Cleo suggested you ... anyone who needs to know, but I don't want the world to know. Especially about my changing from man ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:05pm - 4 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 14 / 19
shrugged, unimpressed. She abruptly changed topic. She was done with the love letter. "So, Merope: did ... climbed out. Wayne's face went through some dramatic changes, registering astonishment and unexpected ... drastically changed in the past two weeks, you need me." Leon stiffened and shook his head. "How ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:04pm - 7 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 15 / 19
changed. But someone who has a full-time job... who can't rely on simply demonstrating what they ... after them. It's a linked list; it can't be broken or changed. I'm in Merope ... needs, were all changed. It was a good change; clearly a salutary change. I pushed the food away and left ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:02pm - 5 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 16 / 19
in the song, was that I'd lost myself. I hadn't changed my life... but I was doing things ... passive state to realize that his breathing and movements had changed — like music, when it shifts to ... a deeper, more serious key. There was no mistaking what the key change signalled: it abruptly became ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:01pm - 3 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 17 / 19
change the subject — or to find a subject — I asked him, "How did you know who I am?" He ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/27 - 2:48pm - 11 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 18 / 19
I scowled at the memory. Dave, whose desk obliquely faces mine, caught my abrupt change of expression, and ... the change in autumn foliage. If you're into that, you've probably seen pictures taken from ... However, in spite of the plan, in spite of my to-do list, the situation changed at around three that ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/11/03 - 6:07pm - 6 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 19 / 19
own apartment, and was training in a more modern programming language, Elixir. I had hopes of changing ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/11/17 - 5:14pm - 12 comments
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Merope, Maybe: 2 / 19
gawking. I could feel my food preferences had changed. Hamburgers, pizza, burritos, didn't call out to ... like a heavy task now, but I was sure my feeling would change, the more I learned about it, the more ... changed for decades. The buildings, the sidewalks, the streets, and even the traffic signals and street ...
Iolanthe Portma... - 2023/10/25 - 2:17pm - 5 comments