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But I can't help but notice that I, and several of my friends, are in our mid-30s, unmarried and childless, and listening nervously to the tick-tick-tick of our biological clocks, which seem to get a little louder and a little faster every year.
Pamela Newton: The Curse of the Unmarried Generation Pamela Newton 2010
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The tick-tick-tick of time vanishing away into a great black sucking vortex of jackets, hats and hoodies.
Julianna W. Miner: Suburban Moms Confront Domestic Terror Threats -- With Purell Julianna W. Miner 2010
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His mechanical soul of gears and springs and chains and levers went tick-tick-tick.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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But I can't help but notice that I, and several of my friends, are in our mid-30s, unmarried and childless, and listening nervously to the tick-tick-tick of our biological clocks, which seem to get a little louder and a little faster every year.
Pamela Newton: The Curse of the Unmarried Generation Pamela Newton 2010
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Always, she would put in her coins, clink-clink, and always the gears in his heart would go tick-tick-tick.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Every time, the Coin-Operated Boy would go tick-tick-tick, and then he would answer yes.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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She would ask the Coin-Operated Boy how he could love her with his clockwork heart that went tick-tick-tick.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Her coins would go clink-clink, and the cogs inside him would go tick-tick-tick, that was all.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The springs and levers inside him just went tick-tick-tick.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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But I can't help but notice that I, and several of my friends, are in our mid-30s, unmarried and childless, and listening nervously to the tick-tick-tick of our biological clocks, which seem to get a little louder and a little faster every year.
Pamela Newton: The Curse of the Unmarried Generation Pamela Newton 2010
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