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    Sci-fi Genre Deep Dive 10

    By Myr

    Top Read Sci-Fi Stories Since Deep Dive 9 Top 1 Most Read Science Fiction - AI Consciousness Explores sentient AI and post-human ethics, often questioning identity, consciousness, and morality. The Construct by Topher Lydon Complete Top 10 Most Read Science Fiction - Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic concerned with the end of civilization, either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civiliz
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abusive relationships part. 2- Red Flags

Abusers isolate you from family and friends.   Abusers abuse you and make you think it's your fault.   Abusers cheat and then they are insanely jealous. All to often they don't even acknowledge your relationship.   They will use you.   Abusers use sex to reward and punish.   The problem with abusive relationships is that they only get worse.   Cops see this crap everyday and hate it. They get called out to the same house or apartment break up a fight where someone is obviously
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Dabeagle's "Everything's Jake" and abusive relationships

Occasionally a story will come along that goes beyond just being good and becomes important. Dabegle's Everything's Jake is one of those stories. It rather graphically illustrates how gay teens and young adults can wake up and find themselves in abusive relationships.   No one that I've ever met just decides one day hot damn, where can I find someone to abuse me every day? Abusive relationships happen to gay and straight young people every day and none of them are looking for it.   There is
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Another real-life theme to use in medical stories!

Britain approved 3 person IVF‏.         In this process they'd remove "faulty" mitochondrial DNA from a cell and replace it with mitochondrial DNA from a donor female egg to help reduce genetic diseases before implantation. Examples of "curable" mitochondrial genetic diseases: Diabetes mellitus and deafness, blindness, multiple sclerosis-type diseases, some epilepsy, liver disease, heart disease... The mitochondrial DNA doesn't affect genetic information like hair and eye color, personality
Cia

Cia

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My "Heart" Songs Playlist

These tunes are basically what I'd consider the core of my heart. They're tunes I can't ever get sick of. Check 'em out.   "Heart Songs"   1.   2.   3.   4.   5. (1997 live version)  6. "   7.   8.   9.   10.   The mass bulk of these songs are from the 1990's. Shocker. LOL   I've never come across a song that depicts youth in it's pure, beautiful form better than "1979" does. God, I can't tell you how much I love that song.
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Moving forward, maybe

Yesterday was bittersweet. My sister sent me a text to write our older brother's obit. She had wanted to do it, but a crisis with her adult children interfered. It was also my younger brother's 37th birthday.   The obit was simple, we had a max of 4 lines. XXX, 51, of XXX passed away on January 24, 2015 at UPMC. He is survived by 3 sisters and one brother. Preceded in death by both parents and 1 sister.   Very sad summation of nearly 52 years.   It says nothing of the boy I remember: The b
DynoReads

DynoReads

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A story without heroes

I don't know how to approach this topic. It's ugly so be warned that it's not going anywhere nice. If you're going to freak out, change to the Disney channel.   Adult content. Violence. Very, very fucked up situations.   No parent in their right mind would want you to know that this shit happens.   ____________________________________________________________     I'm going to tell you a story about an 18 year old freshman.   He was really excited to go to college. He was going where hi
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Writing again

Shh. Don't tell anyone but I started to do that thing called writing again. I am doing multiple things at once so unsure how it is going.   Chapter 16 of Jonas is with the editor and beta.   Finishing three stories to be sent for possible publication.   Working on the final chapter of Seeon. (Anyone even remember that one?)   Have a new prompt piece I'll be putting up later.   All of this and a terrible cold on top of it. Who knows, might actually finish another story then try to find
comicfan

comicfan

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The Field of Love

I've started a new story, 'The Field of Love'. My plan is to post a new chapter once a week. It's a story about a fifteen year old boy finding acceptance and love on a baseball field. I've started a forum for the story and I hope you will leave a review on the story so I can learn from you, the reader. It's my intention to give you the best story I can.   Below is the links to the proper forum.   The Field of Love   Forum for The Field of Love
Enoch

Enoch

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Work or something like it

The last two weeks have been hectic.   Last week I spend 2 days in Iowa City for work getting a Federal agency set-up on their new phone. I love working with customers and taking care of the issues that come up during the deployments.   This week I was at a federal agency here in Des Moines doing the same thing. I got to spend time with a federal account rep that is from Kansas and found out she wants to kidnap me since I am very efficient and very helpful.   The bomb was dropped on me yes
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Writing To Reach You

First off, this entry took forever to write because of all the typos. If any make it through, do forgive me.   I write, it's what I do. And because I spend so long doing it, I am very aware of how I type, the motions I make, and the relationship I have with a keyboard. For a long time now it has shocked and appalled me that most people never think twice about their keyboard. They want a machine with all the fancy specs, but they don't care, or know, anything about the main interface they are g
Sasha Distan

Sasha Distan

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When to OUT People: a Guide for Nuking Hypocrites

"Outing" people is, under most circumstances, traumatic and potentially destructive.   It can even be dangerous to people.   It should only be done only under certain exceptional circumstances. Examples follow and then guidelines.   Reverend Ted Haggard, millionaire leader of a mega-church, was a highly influential, outspoken critic of gay people and gay rights. He counseled parents to send their gay kids to pray-the-gay-away camp. He was caught with a hustler and crystal meth.   Mor
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Laying a Trap

Click "Read Full Entry" in order to see the picture, above. This is my best recent blitz game. I played Black against a higher-rated player with a time control of ten minutes. With Black to play, what is the best move? White resigned two moves later. The entire game is below. Decide what you would move as Black and then compare your answer against mine. The chessboard displays move #21. Do you agree with my choice or do you find a better move? The algebraic notation used below
Drak

Drak

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This will drive the rednecks bat shit crazy

This might be a bad idea. Probably- I've had them before.   I think that it reminds me of the controversy over the word queer.   To those of us in the South there's no word quite so hateful. Wrapping my mind around the concept of taking that word back took a lot of getting used to.   Those of us that are either from the South or live here know a lot about hate. Just today in the local paper there was a whole editorial page dripping with it.   They call us unstable- after tormenting us fr
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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I'm No Pal to Palladium

While shopping for wedding rings for my husband and myself, palladium made my short list, but in the end, something stuck in my craw. I'm the type of geek that likes to learn the gory details, for better or worse, and just had to read the Wikipedia entry for this metal I had seldom heard of save in the commodities page.   Turns out palladium is mined heavily in Russia, where the politicians manipulate the price on the world market to benefit Russia. The same can be said of platinum, by the way
Drak

Drak

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Grief is weird

My brother died this morning after a two week battle with the complications from flu.   I've lost others before, both my parents, a couple close friends even a coworker. So I thought I knew what to expect from grief.   Only I have this overwhelming sense of rage. At my brother whose drinking weakened his body so much that it couldn't fight off the flu. At his medical proxy and caretaker, both family members, who waited to get him to a doctor. At my sister who wasn't ready to let him go last
DynoReads

DynoReads

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Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage

I am always studying addiction. It is a science that far too may people think they have figured out. The reality is a lot more complicated.     This is Whiskers the rat. I bring Whiskers into this discussion because almost everybody is familiar with the famous experiment where they put a rat in a cage with easy access to cocaine and the rat goes ape shit and does cocaine until he dies.   The obvious things most people think about this experiment is that holy shit, cocaine is awesomely add
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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What a Wonderfully Weird Day

I went to lunch recently with a old school friend I hadn't seen in years. Same old story, lost touch over years, went to a High School Reunion, reacquainted ourselfs, and planned a lunch date to catch up, that got post poned like 10 times. A year later we finally get our busy schedules in line and met for a very good lunch. I told him that I had something to tell him. "He said sure what is it."   " Well, I have schizophrenia! Been sick for the past 15 years, but doing well these days." I got
Hogan

Hogan

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fashion

i dont expect to see many of Rick Owens winter fashions out on the streets any time soon - google it as the pic is NSFW so i wont put it up here
MarcW

MarcW

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Ponder in the Dark

How come, I can wake-up in the middle of the night and walk around the house in the pitch dark like a Ninja… but a few hours earlier when I went to bed, I leaped across the dark room onto the bed like a scared little girl, so the monsters under the bed wouldn’t grab my feet in the darkness??
K.C.

K.C.

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Another Neko Update

So, I just want to first thank everyone who read, liked, rated, and/or reviewed What No One Sees. I hope you enjoyed the story, and I greatly appreciate all the comments. Thank you so very much. I am considering possibly using Avery and Matt for some short stories/prompts like I did for the Neko. I dunno, we'll see.   Anyway, to the reason you probably clicked on this link--I have actually completed the sequel to Tears of the Neko. It will be called Blood of the Neko. It's about 60k+ wor
craftingmom

craftingmom

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Critiques from Mom, Dad, and Blobbo

My parents were English professors. When I was a university student, I showed them my prize science fiction story. Mom refused to comment. She was always of the opinion that if you haven't anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Dad used diversion. He said my talent was clearly in non-fiction, and he praised the A+ papers I had written for my classes. "But Daaaaad! What about the story?" "I've got to grade some papers, son. Maybe another time." I asked my best friend, Blobbo, to give an
Drak

Drak

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