The Coiled Serpent | 
“He spent a long time moving his fingers around inside her as if he had lost something like a coin in her body.“ ⚰️
-“The Custard Factory“
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“He spent a long time moving his fingers around inside her as if he had lost something like a coin in her body.“ ⚰️
-“The Custard Factory“
“They both had weak chins, so it was like having two sock puppets chat to me.“
-“The Surrogates“
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“Once, I thought of filling the sea with gelatin to stop its constant noise, to hire ships filled with gelatin powder—there would be enough gelatin powder packets, enough pigs in the world, I think.“
-“Mr. Elephant“
“Angelica ate the leftover Yorkshire puddings for breakfast, though they were clammy and soft like the skin of a hairless armpit.“
-“The Green Hat“
“The pool center had a special swimsuit designed for Queen Victoria, a complex and modest frilled black costume of rubber and cotton with a matching cap. At the pool opening, she was briefly submerged, like a diving bell spider or an enormous dark floating turd, before being pulled out by her servants.“
-“Description and History of a British Swimming Pool/Banya Banya!“
“Once, a boy using the bathroom after Ivor discovered a perfectly white piece of feces, like crushed wet chalk. It smelled of nothing. He said it reminded him of a cloud.“
-“Ivor“
“We had advanced lessons: every year for biology, a zoo donated an elephant fetus for us to dissect, and for months the specimens lay in tanks and jars of formaldehyde in our classroom like wrinkled old raincoats.“
-“Ivor“