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  • Valkyrie

    What Do You Want?

    By Valkyrie

    First, a reminder that the deadline for this year's anthology is fast approaching!  The Proof Team is hard at work, but keep those stories coming in!  I've been brainstorming some ideas for the anthology blog, and I wanted to get input from authors and readers of the anthologies.  Please tell me what you'd like to see in future anthology blogs, and I will do my best to make it happen.   1.  Anthology Rewinds - re-featuring past anthologies 2.  Writing tips - such as grammar, punct
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  • Aditus

    Twisted

    By Aditus

    I love twisted statements, like, ‘I know the killer but don’t know who they are. Or, I’ll be there yesterday if tomorrow doesn’t forget me. They make you stop reading, thinking: Wait- what did I just read? Let’s try that PT Prompt #356 Use one of the two sentences above and use it as the first line in your story/vignette/drabble/flash.  PT Prompt #357 Create a twisted, weird statement/sentence and use it in a whatever you choose text. Please include the prompt numbe
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I quit!

So hey there...   I have a funny story! At work on tuesday I had to write this proposal and after I spent two hours researching and answering all the questions and writing it, I took it to my boss for approval. He started reading it and said, "This is a little over the top. Have you ever thought about quitting and becoming a writer?" So I giggled and said, "Yeah, actually I have!" But I'll probably never be that brave ,plus I seem to be a glutton for punishment.   Still dealing with some fa
viv

viv

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A 'Genetic Study' Of The Galaxy

A 'Genetic Study' Of The Galaxy   Galactic Bulge and Disc Stars Shown To Have Different Oxygen Abundances   ESO 34/06 - Science Release 12 September 2006 Source Link   Part of one of the four regions of the sky in the direction of the Galactic Bulge in which the astronomers measured the iron and oxygen abundances in stars. This particular field is in the vicinity of the so-called 'Baade's Window', a region with relatively low amounts of interstellar "dust" that could block the sight
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Dog Tired Commuter

I spent the last couple of weeks commuting back and forth to Gulfport. I was doing a job overseeing the installation of a business network. Actually- the business was rebuilt after a certain be-yach of a hurricane blew most of it to Wiggins. It took almost a year to get a construction company that wasn't booked up.   They must be well practiced as they went from concrete slab to interior finishing in Three weeks. It's like watching mushrooms pop up after the rain.   I see some definite adva
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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"Beautiful" - pardon the narcissism

Everyday is so Wonderful   I like a lot of songs. In fact I like almost all songs, but if I had to pick a favourite song a permanent favourite, not just a "flavour of the week", it would be Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. I really do feel like everyday is so wonderful.   So I just finished that book that I mentioned in an earlier blog, Outing Yourself. Basically...I thought it was a load of crap. I guess some parts were useful, and interesting, but mostly I just finished it because I'm
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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out along the edges, always where I burn to be...

Another Friday gone but no hangover. Yippee. Not that there wasn't drinking. We actually got started around 5 pm, but mostly stayed away from anything other than beer, so no one really ended up in ridiculously bad shape. Like 9 of us had decided to have a little cookout, and of course it rained all day, but that didn't stop us. There was a balcony overhead blocking most of the rain, so it worked okay. If anyone's wondering, I had a veggie burger and they're really good done over charcoal. We als
lagomorph

lagomorph

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shit happens, to me... all in the same week, ugh!

Okay so I'll go ahead and give you all fair warning now... I have had a crap week and this will probably be a crap blog... you know, Viv, whining and complaining, only in the end to realize she's being dumb and ungrateful... so if you choose to stay and read... I won't be held responsible   So let's see...   We'll start with Thursday... My daughter turned 11 Happy Birthday Punkin! I suggested to Rich that since we aren't having the kids birthday parties for a few weeks still, that we take
viv

viv

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What makes me proud

Well, 9/11 came and went and there were all kinds of shows on TV about that day, and even one about the events leading up to it. I guess to me 9/11 represents something to be proud of. On that day when almost 3000 people lost their lives in the worst attack on our soil, we came together as a nation and for a little while, we weren't democrats and republicans. We were Americans. All of that seems to be gone now. In it's place, we have a country so divided that you can't talk about what happened
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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thoughts on life

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth- Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right, Like ingredients of a witches' broth- A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite.   What had that flower to do with being white, The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought that kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth th
Bender

Bender

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First day at work

Well, today was my first day at my new job. The commute is about an hour each way, which really sucks, but I only have to tough it out for a month or two until I can get my own place. That should cut the commute down to 20-30 minutes. The work is actually quite complicated and there's tons of stuff to remember, a complex computer system and series of databases to learn, etc. I'm very familiar with the translation industry and linguistics (which is important for quality control and just knowing h
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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The Resident Evil TimeLine

These are the events that took place in the Resident Evil Game Series (Note that the games were not released in this order)   Resident Evil 0   Bravo Team is sent in to investigate the disappearance of a convict Billy Coen. He eventually meets Rebecca Chambers. Through the night, Billy and Rebecca find out what's going on and in the end, they kill off James Marcus who mutated into a massive leech creature.   Resident Evil   After the Bravo Team go missing, Albert Wesker sends h
JustynC

JustynC

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Writing

Well, I have actually finished my entry for the Fall Anthology! Of course, according to Word the word count is 10,099... I'm hoping no one will notice those teeny tiny extra 99 words   Am going to submit it as soon as I decide on a title. I hate coming up with titles. With me, either the title is the FIRST thing I think of and then write the story around it, or I can't think of a thing. I am torn between two titles at the moment. One is the one I really want--but I think it may not mak
Luc

Luc

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It's coming soon

Hi all,   since I resigned from the committee, I finally found the time to finish chapter 5. Kurt might give it back to me before friday, so all I will say is that I'll post as soon as I get it back   Hugs, Tom
Tom

Tom

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Hangover, anyone?

I feel like total crap today, and I can't even exactly remember if it was worth it.   There were like 8 of us that went to this bar, which was unbelievably crowded and loud. There was this band playing and I don't think I heard a thing anyone said to me all night. I just sort of started pretending I knew what was going on and shaking my head. It's hard to tell what I might've agreed to.   It's been a loooong time since I had that much to drink, and now I remember why I'm always swearing I'
lagomorph

lagomorph

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Sorting it out

Ok, so the first week of school is over and shockingly enough, I haven't got any major catastophic events to write about. The work seems pretty simple (so far) and it's kinda nice not to be at the bottom of the food chain anymore. Last year wasn't so bad, as far as being a freshman went, but it's nice to be able to say I'm a sophomore. I had a good talk with my dad yesterday on the way home from the doctors office. I had an appointment at 11 and had to leave school at 9:30, and on the way back
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Resident Evil Gamer

Resident Evil Games   1. Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil Directors Cut 3. Resident Evil Survivor 4. Resident Evil 2 2 CD's #1 play as Leon #2 play as Claire 5. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (has a scratch so it freezes while I fight the stupid giant worm GRR 6. Resident Evil Code Veronica ( played it so much that its worn out ) 7. Resident Evil Dead Aim 8. Resident Evil Outbreak 9. Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 10. Resident Evil 4 ( its kewl Use the GameShark and use Inf Health c
JustynC

JustynC

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I resigned

Yep, I resigned from the WST yesterday. I almost regret doing, it but not quite. when I joined the team, I had hoped to make a diffrence, but with work going into overdrive, and the committee responsabilities, I found that I was starting to miss my writing more and more.   I also found that my stress levels had gotten to the point where everything was starting to push me toward a depressive mood swing. The one thing that confirmed my need to resign was one word. when something is bought it t
Tom

Tom

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VAMPIRES (rambling)

Ok here are the true Vampire facts that I unfortunatly learned   Within hours of being bitten, the victim develops a headache, fever, chills and other flu-like symptoms as the body tries to fight off the infection. These symptoms can be easily confused with more common viral infections, although the presence of bite marks on the body are usually enough to confirm the diagnosis. This stage generally lasts between six and twelve hours.Within 24 hours of being bitten, the victim will slip into a
JustynC

JustynC

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How come a day off is never REALLY a day off?

The answer to that, my friends, is... a) I'm a grown up b ) I'm a mom c) I'm a wife d) I'm a control freak e) All of the above... If you guessed 'e' folks... you would be correct. :wacko:   But in bigger and better news... It's my baby's birthday today! So that means that eleven years ago today... I was having my first baby and... trying not to die, almost literally... But, she's eleven today, obviously, and as much as I whine about her attitude and her... normal young girl behavior, she is
viv

viv

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Borland is Back!

Back in the eighties if you had anything to do with computer programming, Borland's Turbo Pascal and Turbo C were all the rage. Borland created Intergrated Development Environments (IDEs) that allowed programmers to write, edit, compile and debug code all in one program. Since then, IDEs have become something of an industry standard like JavaBeans and Eclipse.   Well, Borland is back!   You can download for free Turbo Explorer compilers for C++, C# and Delphi. Free is always the right pric
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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I got a job! Woo-hoo!

I just got a call from the translation company I interviewed at about a month ago, the first interview I went on. They called me last week to tell me that they were about ready to bring me on board, but just needed to check out my references. Today, they called me with the official offer to be their new project manager, and will be paying me $40K a year, plus benefits, free parking, etc., etc. I'll be starting next Monday, and I'm VERY relieved to finally have something. It's not what I want to
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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