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    Vacation Time!

    By Valkyrie

    I just spent two wonderful weeks in the south of England, seeing everything from the Cerne Giant (Google it if you're not familiar...  )  to Stonehenge at sunset.  I could write an entire story about all the sights and experiences from the trip, but at the moment, will have to settle with two prompts based of actual things I experienced during my adventures.  PT Prompt #217 After travelling for over 24 hours with pretty much no sleep and lots of Dramamine (motion sickness med that make
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Mentally Ill?, Hookah and Knott's

I recently got in to a conversation with an acquaintance about the nature of insanity and the mentally ill, and I guess he didn't know about me (bipolar) because the stuff he was saying was really unnerving. I mean, I don't think of myself as mentally ill. But I guess I am. And is that what others say about me? I'm crazy? That I'm mentally ill? I am going to think more on this . . .   I think I've decided on a tattoo design for my 18th birthday.   Smoking hookah and pot with your pseudo/sem
ashessnow

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Who cares?

Me and Taylor went to Hampton tonight with my dad and my stepmom and walked to raise money for research for Kidney Disease. I'm doing it again next week in Portsmouth. The week after that, I'll be in Norfolk at Harbor Park walking for breast cancer research. It's kinda weird, because after all this time, after having four tumors taken out, finding a hole in my heart and basically spending more time in the hospital in the last few years than most people do in their lifetimes, I know that there's
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Zot spot

Dates in the mirror are closer than they appear

So I've been beating up Busted, and I've been finding (as so many people do) that making it good takes a whole lot more work than just making it exist. I'd planned on having it done and shopping it around by the end of the year, assuming my HR department was OK with it. I'm not sure if that's going to happen now, unfortunately. It may, given that it's not yet Halloween, but I'm not holding my breath.     Still, the work going into the rewrite is definitely worth it. Even if the book ultimatel
TheZot

TheZot

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Home, again

I went to work on Tuesday and drove up to Hermiston, OR, for a delivery in Pendleton Wednesday morning, which I made but was and hour and a half late because I missed my turn because I relied on Gatesian reality and not the directions I received from my company, but it was a nice drive through some pretty countryside, albeit not with a 53 foot trailer following my down the one and a half lane road that bicyclists really like because it's a nice ride through some pretty countryside.   Luckily,
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Skywriting

There must be canary in my DNA

It never fails; I'm always the first person of my acquaintance to catch any free-floating strain of cold or flu virus. In fact, sometimes the first sign I have that the latest virus is loose is that I get sick again. This happens three or four times a year, and this last week. By now I've quit bothering to stop work or chores or anything really. I'd never get anything done if I let a little thing like the flu shut me down. Only once in the last couple years did I actually have to take a break, a
B1ue

B1ue

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jamessavik's Blog

Skip the flu this year

It really sucks. I started getting sick Saturday and went into self-imposed quarentine. I've got no problems sharing but viruses should be personal don't ya think?   It started out with the nose running like a sprinkler. Then the fever and chills set in. I've slept more in the past few days than I have in ages.   All I wanted to do was sleep.   Did I mention how much I hate to be sick? I could never use that excuse to skip work cuz the bosses knew if I called in sick, I must be half dead.
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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On All Fours

Ok, so some of you may or may not know that I don't work as a bagger anymore. I got a job at the golf course. At first I was washing golf carts and bringing them around to the club house, but then one day I wandered into the shop and started messing around with some of the carts that weren't working. Well, one thing led to another, and now I work on the carts instead of washing them, and I make way more money doing it. So anyway, we have a catwalk in the shop that we use to get to the things t
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Viv's Blog

I should, you know...

...blog since it's been so long. For that I can only blame ALL OF YOU! KIDDING! Relax... I just meant that I've been spending SO much time in the last two weeks getting the last chapter of FBTE finished and then Part 3 of UTBOS done by the deadline for the anthology. It was down to the wire... literally! Like... type, type, type, send to Steve for html-ing (like my new verb?), shower, work, come home, name the thing, send it into CJ mere minutes before the deadline. Anyway, I hope you guys en
viv

viv

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

The 3:33 to Leksand

There's always been this big mystery in my life and it's bugged the heck out of me for I don't know how long.   My father's father was an immigrant from Sweden. The story in the family was that when he got to Ellis Island and was asked his name he said, "I am Carl Daniel Y______. I left everything in Sweden including my name. I will be known from now on by an American name."   Well, that's the story. From what I know about what happened on Ellis Island, it's just as likely he said his name i
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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What once was is now lost.

Car Accident And A Date?

Confusion seems to be the one word to sum up my life lately.   So about my life, it has been okay as always. Working a lot more dealing with the life of being a resident manger, is not all its cracked up to be. But it's what I have to do to have my own place right? So I will keep it.   So i got into a Car Accident the other day. Branden and i went to work to teach our class as always and i always work Friday nights after the class, so Branden wanted to go out afterwards, so he decided to k
Meeko

Meeko

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Skywriting

Sucessful Failure

I quite thoroughly botched the Khayyam story, which I've tentatively titled "Happily Ever After." Oh well. I will finish it, because I want to see what happens next more than anyone, and I can't find out until I've finished what happens this time. Next time, I'll need to write a more humorous one. I tend to write one funny Khayyam story for every serious one, but so far none of the humorous ones have been published. It's a bit sad, but oh well. "The Road Not Taken" is the next anthology theme, s
B1ue

B1ue

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C James' Goatpen

I stink!

The title is quite literal... I really stink right now.   Earlier this evening, I went outside to get something out of my SUV, and it was dark. That's fairly normal at night, so they say.   As I opened the rear hatch, I noticed something moving out of the corner of my eye, between the rear of the SUV and the corner of my house, just a couple of feet away. All I could see was a flash of white.   Then the smell hit... Ugh... I quickly figured out that what I'd seen was a skunk. It got me
C James

C James

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Achieving Poignancy

Today, while waiting for a load in our Portland yard, I finished the rewrite of the last chapter of Tim and the Corsair. I wish I could share with you want I wrote, but I can't spoil your own experience with the story.   I think I achieved a high degree of poignancy, though.   I think I reached a closing for all the necessary characters.   I think I came to a point where THE END fit into the story.   In the first version, on Nifty if you care to read it, Tim and Geoff don't meet until la
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Luc's Dementia

Things come in 3's

Nothing profound here tonight Sorry.   Things come in 3's, or so they say. I really hope that is true. Last night my nearly 3 year old cat Tribble died suddenly, and I mean suddenly. I went upstairs to watch hockey and she was fine. About a half hour later, Sam comes out o his room and then comes running into me saying that Tribble fell over on the landing. Sure enough, there she was just lying there. I gave her some water and she drank it, turned over and died. She was always healt
Luc

Luc

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Crap your pants

Two days ago when I was driving up the Central Valley of California I saw a cloud of dust over on the other side of the freeway. It was a huge vineyard and I figured a farmer type was doing some sort of farmer job and making a lot of dust in the process. They're doing it all the time all along the freeway, so it's not all that uncommon to see a cloud of dust blow out onto the interstate.   Suddenly, a car flies out of the dust cloud and bounces up onto the pavement. I thought for a second it w
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Over The Line

Something happened today, and it all happened so fast that I still don't think I've had enough time to process it all. Maybe that's why I held my tongue, even though I really wanted to do something.   One of my teachers announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer on Tuesday, and that she has to have major surgery to find out if it's spread. She had enough respect for us to tell us what was going on, and then she admitted that she was terrified. My heart was just breaking for her, but t
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Joe's Blog

I think I'm depressed...

I don't really have a point to writing this, but it's keeping me from falling asleep so I figured I'd do it.   I haven't eaten in a day and a half, and I'm not even hungry. I have a bitch of a headache so I know I need to eat, but I just don't have an appetite at all. I got food today for breakfast and tried to force myself to eat, but I became nauseous every time I would think about taking a bite so I gave up. I only got two hours of sleep last night, and had to be up at 6:30 to finish a pape
JSmith

JSmith

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News of My World

Fiction and reality

I was quite upset as a teenager when I was told about how comics/ movies/ RPGs had a bad influence on "youth". I also hated being made part of a group just on view of my age. I've always believed "people", like in a vast majority of people, were grown up enough to see the difference between fiction and reality.   But as of late, I've started wondering about the influence of fiction, TV series in particular, on how "people" actually see the world. A few months back, I was at one of my music fri
Bondwriter

Bondwriter

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Luc's Dementia

A reminder to one I love

A reminder to someone I love that hearts have infinite capacity to love and that love is never diminished when it is shared with others.   The Capacity of the Heart   What is the capacity of the heart? I think of those I
Luc

Luc

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Luc's Dementia

September 29

One day everything is in the future and you make plans for a day that is forever away. Then the next day that day has passed; you blinked and it ran right by you.   This is life in a few words. Many have phrased those words much more eloquently than I. Pink Floyd expressed the idea beautifully in Time.   Ever notice how the grand statements about life tend to apply on both large scale and small scale? There is a consistency in such things. Of course, people who understand things li
Luc

Luc

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C James' Goatpen

Teenagers in Iran tortured and executed in Iran, for being gay.

Teenagers in Iran tortured and executed in Iran, for being gay. May they rest in peace.   Let it not be forgotten that those two executed gay young men were not alone; there have been at least hundreds executed in Iran for homosexuality in recent years. There's a word for that, it's called genocide.     For anyone who doesn't know, Iran's president recently said that they don't have homosexuals in Iran. He and his ilk are trying to make that into a fact, one gallows at a time.   T
C James

C James

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Best Friend

I used to complain about not being able to turn off the creative switch. At times it drove me batty always coming up with these stories. But now I don't care because the depression wipes me out so much I often can't write anyway.   So, this morning before I left Roseburg, OR, I announced I finished The Pastel Cowboy, but was not going to work on any new projects until I wrote the new ending for Tim and the Corsair, wrote my submission to the Winter Anthology (which takes place on Glandar and e
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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