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If Video Games Were Like Crack
If video games were like crack, I would've been dead long ago. If video games were like crack, I would be buried six feet below. If video games were...
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Talking to My Mother

Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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No ghosts here

My grandad’s house – I went there so many times in real life and so many times in my dreams. Then it was remarkable, that pebble dashed ex-council...
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Colours for Kids 10)

Coal and soot and the sky at night (before the moon has risen to shed some light), the patches on a panda, dark stripes across the zebra, the telly...
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Green Eyed Monster

They say everything is temporary, But with money families should be wary! He’s having money troubles, but aren’t we all? When she gives him money, I...
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Why I Never Woke (Sleeping Beauty Speaks)
It is not a kiss I'm waiting for. Something less. The palace is deserted, servants dead. When heroes came to break the spell, the threat of...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 3 of 3)

Solshae had taken Lin to be joking or fantasising at first, but she realised quickly that she was in earnest, on both of their accounts. “How?” she...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 2 of 3)

Life was easy in the Omnion household, as easy as she’d been promised it would be, and Solshae was given all the trifles she’d been lead to expect:...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 1 of 3)

She worked at the mill when she first came to town, and nothing was what she had expected. She had imagined in Adrios a city of wonder, of light,...
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All Them Monkeys, All Them Bears

All them monkeys, all them bears, O my goodness, how they stare. How they gnash, to what effect, call the doctor, fetch the vet! Please sedate that...
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The Wind 2
is a whisperer evolving from stirring at birth to ruffling dormant leaves shaking with glee and a garden of trees meld into newly acquired shapes...
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The Picture Ranch 54

Where else would you get rid of an "Admiral's" body? Image source is U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and dated 1923 normally that's PD for U.S. sourced stuff. I guess the USN would be more upset about the content than the use of this graphic.
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Autmn's faces

Autumn – a time of change and chills. Sometimes a glowing summer glimpse … sometimes a sodden grey …
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Chapter 6 Excerpt-Nameless Thing
Marcus dragged himself towards the cover as his former soldiers closed in with nothing but murderous intent followed each of their movements...
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Chapter 1 Excerpt-Just Another Day
His weapon made the mark. Tearing through the flesh of the creature he was assigned to eliminate. It staggered a few steps before belching forth a...
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Life and Death Under the Hudson

I didn’t know a wall could move that fast. One moment I’m riding along on my bicycle. The next moment my nine-year-old body is hitting the pavement;...
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Marwood Lake Near The Woods.
I was in traffic this week and a huge lorry was just ahead of me it wasn’t transporting anything at the time, but just behind the driver’s head was...
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"The Trouble with Magical Beings" (A Fantasy) Chapter 8

Daniel looked at the compass in his hand making sure they were still heading south. “Can you turn a little to the left Shale,” he asked the little...
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Chicken Shit
When it comes to my neighbor, I usually have a fit. He irritates the hell out of me and he's a chicken shit. He has wild parties that last until 3 A...
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A Long, Dark Multiverse Ahead: What Schism is About or a Rough Context
We see it every day. We see it in the media, in our jobs, our personal lives, we sometimes even see it in ourselves. A growing indifference...
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