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    Secret Author Contest-Forbidden Is... Revealed? Nooooo.

    By Cia

    Ha! Did you think it was time to share the stories and authors? No!! Total clickbait. Heehee! That's right, time to vote on your favorite! Now, to be fair, it would be ideal to have read ALL the stories. Can you vote without having read them? YES! Because this is about your favorite use of our theme of Forbidden Knowledge that you read in this year's Secret Author Forbidden Knowledge stories. Pick a SINGLE title, this isn't your top three. It doesn't even have to be your favorite overall st
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Sometimes it just doesn't work out

When I got home earlier this evening from a subdued dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant and two stops at different grocery stores, I started on an entry complaining about how depressed I was. I'm still very depressed, but that doesn't matter right now.   I watched a movie.   Oh, god, we all watch movies, I can hear you saying. So what!   I don't watch that many movies, especially something new. I just don't like movies, sorry.   I watched "Memory of a Killer". It was in Dutch and F
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Viv's Blog

illustrations...

So, gosh... it's been a long time since I blogged.   Both my kids had a birthday in the last week leaving the tally at: Daughter - 12, Son - 6.   So, Friday was my daughter's birthday and we were going to take her out to dinner at a restaurant, her choice, and we were waiting for Rich to get home from work so we could go. My daughter comes running inside to tell me that this girl that used to live next door to us for a few months, but has since moved out into a hotel, put makeup on my new
viv

viv

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Blog Archive

Running away with me

So last night I did what I've wanted to do metaphorically in a literal way. I ran. And Ran. And kept right on running. It was pouring rain out. I went anyway. Lightning striking all over the place. Sun set well below the horizon. I kept running. Soaken wet, heart pounding, foot numbing I stopped and walked long enough to so I could feel my foot again and catch my breath, then I ran some more. And ran, and ran. I ran right past the road I was supposed to turn down and didn't realize it for a half
Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

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Zot spot

Rewrites, rewrites, rewrites

And more rewrites.   I'm not dead, but you'd never know it from the postings, would you? When Real Life hasn't been getting in the way, I've been beating up the draft of Busted, trying to get it in shape to shop around for publication.   It's been a !@$! pain in the ass getting it ready, too.   I thought the worst part about this would be throwing out scenes. I've already tossed 30K words, the last third of the book. Not that it isn't bad; some of the stuff I tossed I really, really like.
TheZot

TheZot

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Pissed!

Okay, this was my last night as hostler on the Perishible Dock. That was a given.   Part of my job, the first part, has to be accomplished by 19:00 every night because that is when the Grocery Dock shuts down, is to move the combination trailers, those that have perishible and grocery, from the perishible dock to the grocery dock. I have to do this every night.   Well, tonight the Perishible Dock was behind. They were delayed. For whatever reason, they were behind.   The Grocery Supervisor
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Skywriting

Good advice from a stripper

One of my cousins used to work in a strip bar. Actually, two of my cousins on opposite sides of my family have, and a great-aunt was a whore, but I digress. The first cousin told me about how she had two coworkers, which we will call Lucy and Emily. Emily was a very pretty, attractive woman, and Lucy was, while lively, not anywhere near Emily in looks. Yet night after night, it was Lucy that had the bigger roll of tips to count. My cousin was extremely curious as to why this was, because she dec
B1ue

B1ue

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blog

Chicago, love(?), depression and New York

Chicago - Sufjan Stevens     I fell in love again all things go, all things go drove to Chicago all things know, all things know we sold our clothes to the state I don't mind, I don't mind I made a lot of mistakes in my mind, in my mind   you came to take us all things go, all things go to recreate us all things grow, all things grow we had our mindset all things know, all things know you had to find it all things go, all things go   I drove to New York in
ashessnow

ashessnow

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jamessavik's Blog

Magnus Libras II

The design of my knowledge-base is specific to me and my interests. Another persons knowledge base may look completely different with different topics and priorities. Astronomy & AstrophysicsAstrophysics Black Holes Gravity Cosmology General Astrophysics High Energy AP Hubble Observations Neutron Stars/Pulsars Plasma Physics Stellar structure & Evolution Supernova [*]Basic Astronomy [*]Celestial Mechanics [*]General [*]History [*]Milky Way [*]NASA
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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hands in the air.

:]!

I saw him outside of work today and I didn't even have to initiate it! My friend wanted to come see him, so when she came by I introduced them and she absolutely loved him. She said we were totally flirting, so that's good. He brought up dinner with another coworker of mine, and when she mentioned that I got off at the same time, she said he sounded really excited and wanted her to invite me. We all ended up going together, and it was amazing.   During the meal, at one point he kept
rich_e

rich_e

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Little Buddha's Stone Grotto

New Story Update!

Well ... some good news ...   Chapter 1 of the new story is ready to go (it's called "When I See You Again" -- same title as a previous effort I made, but totally different story, characters, etc. ... I just liked the title ... hehe). Sharon has finished editing, and I'll be sending it to Joe at the end of this week once I have all of the pages for my site updated. Chapter 2 has also just been sent to Sharon for the first edit, then I'll revise it some more and send it back one more time for a
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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Joe's Blog

What'd you learn in school today?

I always hated it when my parents would ask me that. It was either "How was school?" or "What'd you learn today?"...   How was school? It's school, how do you think it was! Honestly, who really wants to wake up that early and go to class?   What'd I learn? Based on the fact that I usually slept through my classes, not much! Except today... today was an exception because I learned that there are an extremely large number of hot guys at our school this year. The incoming freshman are so good l
JSmith

JSmith

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Finally, I Get to Use Them in a Story

I finished the short story I will probably submit for the Fall Anthology. Worked on it all night. Actually, I went a bit beyond all night, but I felt I needed to finish it so I could submit it. (Does it sound like I haven't had enough sleep?)   It's sort of a prequel to my Summer Anthology story. This story is about the First Watcher and kind of everything leading up to the establishment of Glandar.   What I like about the new story is I was able to bring in the 'xrsc and other members of th
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Chronicles of My Life

Nearly Two Years Later...

So it's a bit silly to be posting this particular blog entry right now, but I was sitting here wondering just how long it's been since I first got a blog here. Turns out it's been nearly two years! My first entry was on November 17th 2005! Since then I've posted 117 entries (counting this one), which comes out to about one per week, but which of course in practice is more like 2 or 3 one week, then 2 or 3 the next month (if that many in some months).   It seems that I posted the most entrie
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Blog Archive

Sometimes...

I am only your boyfriend some of the time. The rest of the time I am nothing. My voice has no words My mind is without content My heart has no value I exist, as only a broken shadow in your mind. For I am only your boyfriend some of the time.   I look back through my blogs here, public and private... I look back through e-mails, many I never sent... I look back over my life and for so... so long I have been unhappy - in a desperate struggle with my boyfriend to get him to show the love h
Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Questions, Answers, and Me

I guess LOst Cause started this, then Ieshwar got into the act, and then I said I'd do one, too.   But first, a word from our sponsor:   I was working on Tim and the Corsair tonight getting things ready for a totally remodelled ending and caught myself laughing at the jokes. Do you ever do that? Can you go back and read something you wrote a year ago and still laugh at the jokes? Or, is it just me?   Anyway, I think I've got the ending fairly well figured out, but not totally scoped out. B
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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The Talon's Claw

More Updates

Back in January, I did a blog called, It's War I tell you, It's war where I complained about the tenant downstairs. This past Labor Day weekend, Sunday to be precise, I got up at 6 in the morning. At one point I heard a beeping noise coming from downstairs. I thought it was here alarm clock going off. I went to the kitchen to turn on the coffee maker. As I turned to leave the kitchen, I looked out the window to see smoke coming out from under the awning over her porch. I immediately put on my sh
TalonRider

TalonRider

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Tim and the Corsair

Man, was I drunk last night, or what?   I haven't felt that bad in years. And, this morning!   I quit over-indulging for what happened this morning. I was sick. My stomach had a hole in it that still hasn't completely healed.   Anyway, that didn't stop me from getting Chapter 5 of The Pastel Cowboy posted on eFiction. I was hesitant in posting this chapter because it delves into a rather despicable area, but when I originally wrote this for Nifty I needed to get rid of a couple characters
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Blog Archive

Never making it to shore.

This poem is straight from the heart, very emotional, very metaphorical, and possibly tear jerking. You've been warned.   I was walking across a rope bridge Behind me, my life without you Before me, the day I move in with you Below me, no rivine, nor rushing stream Below me lay a vastly wide river Moving warm and slow To nowhere I'd rather go Than the other side.   You were standing on the other side When I saw you disappear, And a moment of confusion crossed my mind When you retur
Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

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What once was is now lost.

Shades Of Blue

TEN EMOTIONS. 1. are you missing someone right now?: no 2. are you happy? Somewhat yes. 3. are you talking to anyone right now?: Ashlee!! 4. are you bored?: Nope 5. are you German?: Nope, tho i have been to germany ^^ 6. are you Irish?: Half 7. are you French?: No 8. are you Italian?: No 9. are your parents still married?: Yes they are >< 10. do you like someone right now?: Define like =P   TEN FAVORITES. 1. store: Hmm I guess AE or T&C. 2. flowers: ??? 3. color: Blue!
Meeko

Meeko

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Luc's Dementia

Labor Day Weekend

The Labor Day weekend was pretty good. I did some organizing of paperwork, which is a nice, relaxing anal-retentive task. Scott and Sam think I am nuts for finding that relaxing.   We spent a lot of time outside this weekend. The weather was great and the pool was nice. I don't have a bandage to worry about anymore, so took advantage of the pool. We had a water balloon fight at one point. Scott accidentally hit me in the hand, which ended my participation. Stung like hell and I had a p
Luc

Luc

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