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Ridgeline: Part Eighteen: What She Carries
Fragments. Scott's face in the hospital hallway — not the 6:30 face, not the flat emptied face of a man who'd driven a truck for twelve hours. A...
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Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light
The light came without announcement. Not a sunrise. Not the golden spilling that the word "dawn" promises. A grayness — slow, directionless, the sky...
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Ridgeline - Part Sixteen: Stay
The dog crawled onto her legs. She felt it happen — the weight shifting, the damaged body dragging itself forward from its position against her back...
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Ridgeline - Part Fifteen: The Reckoning
The cold had a texture. Not the absence-of-heat cold from earlier — the goosebumps, the prickling, the muscles clenching. That cold had been the body...
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Ridgeline - Part Fourteen: After
The flashlight was on the ground where he'd dropped it. She could see the beam — orange now, not the white it had been, the batteries dying, the cone...
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[We interrupt Mornington Heights for these important messages]
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Studio lights up. A tanned man in a velvet blazer sits behind a mahogany desk. His teeth are impossibly white. A glass of water and a stack of cue cards are arranged before him.
"Good evening. I'm Gérard Le Fromage."
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I'm glad you like it! I did
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
I'm glad you like it! I did my best to pull some of the threads together. I hope we can see what happens next soon!
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When my daughter was little,
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2026
When my daughter was little, we were walking on the beach, feeding bread to the seagulls, when she asked me if "seagulls" were called that because they were "eagles that live by the sea". She was hearing "sea-gles", I guess.
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I did. "Holding fire" until
Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2026
I did. "Holding fire" until further notice. Just let me know if I can help in any way.
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I can write Part 9, if no one
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
I can write Part 9, if no one wants it. The way I have always played round robin is the author that starts the story is the only one allowed to finish the story, but that may be different here.
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Okay, I will write Part 7
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
Okay, I will write Part 7 this week, if everyone approves. I am taking a break from my current work for a week so it seems to be a good time. Thank you for the invitation!
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I'm glad you noticed this
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
I'm glad you noticed this detail! The US military has terminology for "clearing a room", but it didn't seem strong enough. If the room is "cleared" of the enemy threat, the room could be empty, or the enemy could be captured, not killed.
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I Love Music!
Posted on Sun, 11 Jan 2026
Lately, I find that silence is better when I write. However, I like to turn up the volume while working on other odd projects around the house. I'm a big fan of The Flaherty Brotherhood and a band called "Goodnight, Texas".
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This Made Me Smile
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
"Morning billows concealing / Blink of sun's rays, then suddenly / Disbanding" I think captures perfectly the blink-and-you'll-miss-it nature of inspiration. I wonder how many great ideas pass us by just because we are not paying attention?
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A tightly focused theme!
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
The central paradox here really works - the speaker claims memory is "false," yet still cannot help but forget. That tension drives the whole piece! I especially appreciate how you ground the abstract through concrete imagery (dust, broken galss...
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