For
most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation
of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump
stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so
bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
John Sununu
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The globe felt toasty warm against
her damp skin.
Drawn, she splayed her fingers
until her palms nestled around it. A delicious wave of heat ran through her,
like sitting in front of a crackling fire on a cold winter night. Ecstasy
coursed through her body.
Transfixed, she watched the
glowing green crystal change to blue, its hues dancing and sparking like
moonbeams on the water.
The crystal pulsed beneath her
hand.
By degrees, the feeling of
warmth disappeared…and fear crept in.
Her breath hitched in her
throat as the color in the crystal fell away and a face formed. Its blurred
outline moved back and forth, wraithlike and then sprang into sharp focus.
She felt the color drain from
her face, as her nerveless fingers dropped from the ball. The face in the globe
belonged to the hard-eyed stranger she’d bumped into outside the shop, only
moments before.
THE CRYSTAL
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