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    Action/Adventure Genre Deep Dive 5

    By Myr

    Top 10 Most Read Action/Adventure - Action Fiction focuses on fast-paced action and physical challenges.  Often involves a hero or protagonist facing intense obstacles and overcoming them through physical prowess and skill. Shadow Effect by kbois Complete The Light at the End of the Tunnel by kbois Complete Gap Year by Mark Arbour Complete The Case of the Short, Short Prince by Geron Kees Complete Two for One by P. E. Knapp Complete The Brothe
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The Thing About Mark Is...

June 25th, 2011   The thing about Mark is…hard to define and I’ve tried to define it, shape it, and understand it going on three years. It could be his looks, he’s a real f**king hottie in a complete nerd star way. His personality? Maybe, he’s playful and caring and loves his friends and family with a passion that is scary for someone with my background. His work ethic? He goes to school full time and works full time. His drug addiction? He has to smoke first thing in the morning and se
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Why do people dream of a democracy?

I was pondering this thought as I keep hearing the radio responders, chiming over and over again about how the US is a Democracy and their voices matter in the decisions.   This lie to people might maintain order and this dream of democracy has been with many for a long time, but the US has never been a democracy, nor has any of her current allies. Sure, every nation has varying forms of representative government, but no nation has had a direct universal democracy as the primary form of govern
W_L

W_L

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Advices, to give them is the easiest way

My professional life took place in several stages:   The apprenticeship of a young engineer, trying to practice what he learned at university and gaining his first experiences of junior officer in the industry,   The maturation period, as a general consultant working for an association of companies in the oil sector, with the purpose to improve the profitability of the 1'200 members of the association, from small commercial oil distributors to the big heads of several networks of oil stor
old bob

old bob

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Life or something like it

Things have been kinda of spiraling out of control since April.   To set the stage: Christmas 2009 my grandfather was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was removed but had spread. He was seeing a doctor at Johns Hopkins and was getting some experimental treatment. When that didn't work and the cancer had spread they tried cemo. It didn't work and my grandfather got worse. In March this year, he did a 15 minute conversation with his kids. The day he met with my mom he had her drag me from work be
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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ANOTHER Update

I'm sure you're all very bored by now with my sudden splurge of blogging but I just wanted to say that i've taken the job. Three days a week 9.30 to 3. I'll always be home for Efan and I wil always have a day off tomorrow.   Still plenty of time for writing and painting but with a cheque at the end of the month.   I am SO excited about telling the Benefits Agency where to stuff their benefits. There is nothing beneficial about them at all.   As for the morphine well, I reckon I am going
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Failures and victories

The past few weeks have been full of contrasted events.   In the list of failures I have to include my last marathon race. This time, I wasn't able to train as well as I did last year because my ankle never fully recovered from last summer's fracture. I only managed to run about 45 to 50km a week instead of the 60-70 I should have done. Despite that, I thought I would be able to finish it. Well, I had to give up around mile 18. It's the first time I can't complete a marathon. I made mist
Bleu

Bleu

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Depressed

Been depressed quite a bit lately, it comes and goes, some days are full of sunshine other days, gloom. Seraph74 reviewed one of my stories, Merry Christmas Patrick, and asked for a sequel. So, with doing better to do, I’ve now got a fresh faced sixteen-year-old moving into a college dorm with an eighteen-year-old, who started in summer term, thinking all sorts of nasty thoughts about the cute boy with alluring eyes at the other end of the footlocker.   It’s the autumn of 1971, barely two year
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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I live in the land of the Freaks!

In theory I live in a 'college town' but given we are 'inside the beltway' - code for close to DC - I hardly think this qualifies as a college town. I mean it's really just a very close in suburb of DC. But I've never seen so many freaks in my life:   First there's Mr. Wizard - he frequents the Starbucks near campus - he sets his drink on the counter, waves his hand over his drink twice, takes a drink, sets it down and does it again. He does it everytime before he drinks.   Then there i
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Update on the Morphine.

Well, two weeks on Morphine and what difference has it made... pretty much bugger all.   In fact, if anything, it's made it worse. The problem is that I have two levels of pain... the underlying toochache that is there ALL the time, whether I am sitting lying or walking and that is much better.   The other type of pain is the... being stabbed by sharp knives or burning needles kind of pain. That's the kind I get when i twist or stand up or bend or sit down. If anything that is worse because
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Men of a certain age...

Sometimes I feel horrible. Usually it hits in the cold of winter but I've got a solid blast of pain in the heat of the summer.   The stiffness and pain aren't really so bad. As far as pains go, I've had worse. It just doesn't go away for days at a time. Today its in my ankles and knees. Other times it'll be in my neck and shoulders and it is always in my neck to some extent.   I get pain fatigue. I get tired of it. Sometimes it interferes with my sleep. I only got about 4 hours last night an
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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I Need A Favor...

If you're fluent in reading and writing Spanish, good with spelling and grammar, and have a couple spare hours and would like to help me out with a project, let me know!   Thanks!
viv

viv

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a bitter sweet good bye. -

I open my window & I can start to feel the rain pouring down. So I went outside for a walk & ended up crying.   "You were never like the others." I wish I had it in me to walk up to you at graduation & say I have liked you too for what seems like my entire life.   I guess it's true that you're finally going. But I don't want you to leave. I don't exactly understand why it is I feel this way.   Sometimes there really aren't enough tears to get over the pain. These
MidnightSecret

MidnightSecret

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well...

well... seems like that nobody believe me or hear the side of my story, since they take someone's word over me. this is what really upsets me a lot, and i wanted to tell them my side of the story, but i couldn't... *sighs* story of my life... look, i didn't mean to harass someone, but im not really harassing someone, im just saying or telling someone, thats all? i just wanted to show them my point of view... but i guess no one would understand me. i thought people here would understand me...  
miker33

miker33

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The Joy of Morphine

So, I have been having a lot of trouble with my back and joints again.   I have to admit that since I have not been working it has improved, but it has been a real struggle since I had the really bad episode in February. Usually my acute attacks last a week and then they go away. This time it didn't completely go away at all.   The problem I have is that my discs are crumbling. I have a lot of problems with my back generally since I broke it but the disc thing is the scariest because the di
Nephylim

Nephylim

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What's up with me

This was posted last week so this is for you guys since I've just gotten to a point where I'm up to posting this.  
S.L. Lewis

S.L. Lewis

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No Baby Momma Update - Really

Been working on the long promised companion to Second Shot - this would be Jordan's trial for those who followed the story. It is a bit harder to write than to visualize. Trials are actually rather boring, just ask anyone who's been stuck on a jury for a long case. The interesting exciting parts are few and far between. So that is proving a bit more of a struggle than imagined.   I submitted the Anthology work, but kind feel meh about it. It seemed so much cooler when I was writing it t
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Bitchy Family Members, Redux

So, I make a joke about how I'm used to Black and Mild cigars as opposed to the chocolate cigars they were handing out to celebrate Sister 2's twins arriving, and now Sister 1 and Sister 3 are convinced I'm a cigar smoker who secretly goes out to get my fix. They really do want to believe I'm just some liar who hides what he does from everyone and is into all kinds of crazy shit. I absolutely lost it in front of my mother. God, they piss me off. It of course makes sense that the first time in
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Another week

Well, another week at the shelter is in the basket.   Got a new roommate yesterday. Seems nice. He used to be a trucker until his employer gave him a breathalyzer test one morning and his reading was over 0.04, which is way above the zero tolerance trucking companies usually expect. Needless to say, his world has gone from okie-dokie to oh-f**k-this-isn’t-good. The only negative aspect of our new relationship is his radio or rather the station his radio is tuned to. I guess it’s rock of some s
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Life bursting forth from my fingertips.

"I think we should stick to being friends," he said, his brow furrowed with fake concern, and with what little control I could get about me I smiled weakly at him, showing the fatigue in my eyes. "I'm sorry," he followed, "I hope this is okay?"   "I understand completely, and it's fine," I said, although I didn't understand, and I certainly didn't feel fine. All I wanted was for him to leave my apartment, but I still had to see him twice weekly, so I had to save face for just a little longer
Bender

Bender

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