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Recent Examples of furlessOn a plywood bookshelf above the twin bed sat a dozen teddy bears of varying age and quality, some patchy and furless.—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Sprite Melon This petite (about the size of a grapefruit), smooth-skinned melon is Japanese in origin, but has been considered a specialty crop in North Carolina for almost half a century.
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Joanna Sciarrino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 May 2026
Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.
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Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
Investigators said some female victims were found naked or partially unclothed, with evidence of severe mutilation and objects including grenades, nails and household tools inserted into their bodies.