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  • Thirteen years of agents and editors from those agents guides all giving the same spiel in the form of a very informal desert-dry, mechanically voiced “Dear Author” rejection letter.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • His hands shook as if palsy stricken, and thirst parched his desert-dry mouth.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Thirteen years of agents and editors from those agents guides all giving the same spiel in the form of a very informal desert-dry, mechanically voiced “Dear Author” rejection letter.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • His hands shook as if palsy stricken, and thirst parched his desert-dry mouth.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • His hands shook as if palsy stricken, and thirst parched his desert-dry mouth.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Running as an Independent the next time around, the desert-dry Kvale won with the support of Prohibitionists more wrathful than the cautious Volstead.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Long-penned forces boiling across a barrier that had suddenly been cast down, roaring through the parched and empty halls of air with the force of a landslide, carrying a tidal wave's worth of water with them, shedding it indiscriminately and violently on the desert-dry land below-

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • I just wanted to wash my hands and face and apply some fresh Lip Venom gloss to my desert-dry lips.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • Running as an Independent the next time around, the desert-dry Kvale won with the support of Prohibitionists more wrathful than the cautious Volstead.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • It's not usually all that hot here, and it's certainly not desert-dry; in fact, the humidity is often stifling.

    Eastern Cacti 1 Dinosaur 2008

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