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Reduced by 1/10th (one-tenth), not, as commonly misused, totally wiped out, destroyed, annihilated.
The rodent population in New York City was decimated, down from ten million to only nine million.
14π 8π
The projection of worst-case scenarios in the face of an epidemic.
The government pressed him for an estimate of how many could die. He didn't want to indulge in epidoomiology, even knowing that the numbers were staggering
A choice between earth and sky, light and heavy, the option to float or to sink.
One of the women was laughing, smiling, so enjoying the moment that her feet barely touched the ground, while the other had a negative word for everything, her brows clenched, seeming cemented in place. It was clearly an ether/ore choice and he went toward the light.
The delusion many experience while taking enormous risks with their health and their lives, during the Covid pandemic.
"You're going where??"
"Out to dinner. With friends. We're so done with being locked up."
"Don't you realize it's not safe to do that?"
"Oh, I'm being very careful."
What a devout vegan sees when she spots your leather shoes.
She had fallen for his whole 'I'm so kind to animals' thing. On their first date, happily sharing Impossible Burgers with him, she dropped her fork. At floor level, she saw his feet. "Hypocrite!" she screamed. Are those vegan leather? No! You are wearing meat loafers!" She grabbed her phone, unfriended him, and stalked off. Needing some comfort food, he signaled the waiter for a bacon cheeseburger.
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An extreme form of conversion therapy, intended to cure the bi-curious and turn them straight.
Arriving home in Wichita from Princeton for the summer, Amber confided to her devoutly Methodist mother that she was equally in love with her 'friends' Jason and Jennifer. Shocked, and too unworldly to know that this was a transitory phase for many of the girls in Amber's class, her mother whispered the threat of bi-pass heart surgery to make her normal again.
5π 4π
In the near future, a fantastical story told by parents to children of what the word 'city' meant.
They sat at six-foot intervals to hear their favorite Urban Legend. They knew it was not real, yet it entertained them to imagine people walking the streets, crowding together to eat and drink and listen to music, where 'school' was a building kids went to, together.