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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-""Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun."

"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."

"She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it."

"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."

"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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