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  • I hurled the Styrofoam containers onto the next track over and heard the snap and wet crash of half-rotten bait, then I backed beside her to wait.

    365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

  • There were more glimpses—here, a half-rotten leg, there, a battered rib cage, and then across the inner curve of the whirlpool, a long line of skulls pressing up through the film of water and rising.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • There were more glimpses—here, a half-rotten leg, there, a battered rib cage, and then across the inner curve of the whirlpool, a long line of skulls pressing up through the film of water and rising.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • I say combine them all into a half-rotten sick-nasty disgusting goo or paste.

    how do you catch cat fish? 2009

  • There were more glimpses—here, a half-rotten leg, there, a battered rib cage, and then across the inner curve of the whirlpool, a long line of skulls pressing up through the film of water and rising.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • They took the traps and laid them out along the quarter-mile stretch of the river where it ran through the woods which included the spot where Cody's boat and left arm had been found, and baited the traps with chicken halves and soup bones and pieces of half-rotten beef, swearing to themselves and each other that they would capture the alligator and slice open its belly to retrieve whatever legacy was inside it.

    Novel Excerpt - Full Chapter of Jimmy! George LaCas 2011

  • Can't get any more "proletarian" than buying half-rotten meat.

    Oil and water (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • There were more glimpses—here, a half-rotten leg, there, a battered rib cage, and then across the inner curve of the whirlpool, a long line of skulls pressing up through the film of water and rising.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • I say combine them all into a half-rotten sick-nasty disgusting goo or paste.

    how do you catch cat fish? 2009

  • You can use something as easy and cheap as straw, or the type of half-rotten chopped leaves, leafmold, used at Green Spring.

    Groundwork: A cabbage named kohlrabi 2010

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