These Toxic Things
Rachel Howzell Hall
"At that time of night, there was peace."
"At that time of night, there was peace."
"You couldn’t have asked for better weather."
"They landed about forty-five minutes later at a remote section of Hunter Army Airfield."
"The dead man lived up the hill. We could have walked, if the world wasn’t ending and we didn’t have to bring him back."
"The telephone rang, waking Captain Marianne Augresse with a start."
"It was a Monday morning in September, on the beach, when it all began."
"The carriage door creaked as Rodolfo opened it."
"Two dead men at the North Gate!"
"Walli Beckwith had no way of knowing that she probably had just under an hour to live."
"He opens the tray table and sets his water bottle down, then opens a packet of chocolates and pops one in his mouth."
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