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  • You obviously need more than a half-melted Freddo.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something. 2010

  • When he was gone Orphan blew out the two half-melted candles that perched precariously on two opposing shelves and stretched himself on the bed.

    EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 3/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar 2009

  • The half-melted sled ruts were not his, and though he was not the sort of man to know one set of sled tracks from another, Patrick knew where these came from.

    Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline' Narrative Magazine 2010

  • Inside her coat pocket, Tina ran her thumb along the half-melted handle of a box cutter she found outside a loading dock they'd passed by a day or so before.

    How the Species Began Again, I Savannah Schroll Guz 2011

  • “Dead,” Skip whispered urgently, his voice sounding slow and wobbly in his ears, like a half-melted audiotape.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Tally consumed the rest of the muffin, which was totally steaming inside and marbled with half-melted chocolate, and picked up her fork to attack the eggs.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • Most Dos Toros work is defective from the get-go: bean-leaking fissures formed before the tortilla is even rolled; half-melted cheese that really ought to make up its mind regarding its status as a liquid or solid; and puzzling wrapping techniques that don't allow for a foil exoskeleton that, at least in Dos Toros 'case, would be an overwhelmingly welcome set of training wheels.

    Simon Maxwell Apter: NYC Burrito Challenge III: Dos Toros Taquería 2010

  • “Dead,” Skip whispered urgently, his voice sounding slow and wobbly in his ears, like a half-melted audiotape.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • But I had already half-melted the butter when I found out we were out of brown sugar, and so there was only so much to be done.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway ellameena 2008

  • So, they're left in half-melted fields, alone and afraid, scarred with muddy handprints and begging for death.

    Frozen Out 2010

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