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  • I lose interest in the bizarro stuff where it totally jumps the tracks and loses touch with reality, but your piece manages to keep just a fingerhold on the world I know, and you had me laughing out loud, but waiting for a disconnect that (fortunately!) never came.

    CYRIL MACK AND THE VERY COLD CUP OF TEA • by Kevin Shamel 2009

  • Expectations that Greece will lose its last fingerhold on investment-grade status by mid-January haven't been improved by new reports that Athens is thinking about a future debt restructuring plan.

    Time for EU to Finish the Job Terence Roth 2010

  • I managed to pull out the keys and was finally able to pry up the splintered edge enough to get a fingerhold.

    Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

  • Those items we've owned, whether through our own besotted bad judgment or the misplaced affection of someone else with just a fingerhold on sanity.

    Useless Things 2006

  • Those items we've owned, whether through our own besotted bad judgment or the misplaced affection of someone else with just a fingerhold on sanity.

    December 2006 2006

  • Len walked out of the cell and whispered to the glimpse, “Give me a fingerhold of light.”

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Len walked out of the cell and whispered to the glimpse, “Give me a fingerhold of light.”

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Len walked out of the cell and whispered to the glimpse, “Give me a fingerhold of light.”

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • If she put enough distance between herself and Gregory, she could try to find a place to cling to, some fingerhold beneath the track to dangle from.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • If she put enough distance between herself and Gregory, she could try to find a place to cling to, some fingerhold beneath the track to dangle from.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

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