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    glass
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    JamesSavik commented on JamesSavik's story chapter in 3771

    In art, there is a technique called the dry brush. In its application, it's not the amount of paint used, it is the color and where you put it for the desired effect. It's litany equivalent works fairly well for short stories.
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    Can't say that I have even considered it. I like it crunchy. Never have I ever been a fan of cuntry muzak (except for outlaw country. That's different.)
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    JamesSavik posted new chapter in Get Into James Shorts

    Dmitri Koslov, senior engineer on the night shift of the Kursk Regional Reactor Authority, shared a nip of vodka with the cute nurse in the dispensary before his shift started. February was cold in Russia. Koslov asked the day-shift leader, "Victor, is there anything we need to know?" Victor shook his head and said, "The Geology people from the Oblast(1) reported a series of small earthquakes near Belograd this afternoon. The strongest was 3.3." Dmitri shrugged, "They call wheneve
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    @LJCC You are right. All the elements must be there to ground the story. Consider this fragment of dialog. All it tells you that something is happening the speaker doesn't understand. Now, consider: Whose what the hell carries more weight? Which one is more interesting? The unnamed person or the engineer running the nuclear plant who had a shot of vodka with his girlfriend before his shift? The talking head what the hell has no context other than that provided by dialog. That can work, but it's tedious, and you must take care not to lose your reader.
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    campfire (makes Smokey sad)
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    When I first saw this word I thought: Ahh... Vexology! The study of things that vex people, like noisy barking dogs and raccoon raiders would be useful and practical... wait, that ain't it.
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    grease-gun
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    torture
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    decay
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    The pulchritudinous of nature just doesn't have the right ring to it. It sounds like a horrible disease or condition. Don't make your reader reach for a dictionary too often. Just because you know a fifty cent word, you don't have to use it!
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    Don't do it Timmy!
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    Dug-out Doug McArthur was known for surrounding himself with sycophants who told him what he wanted to hear. That really bit him hard on the ass many times against the Japanese, but he didn't learn from the experience. It really bit him hardest in Korea when Red China ordered millions of "volunteers" into North Korea to bail out their sock-puppet Great Leader. Dug-out Doug wanted to nuke them and invade China, but thankfully, Truman wasn't a lunatic and fired the actual lunatic. Now there's one "Old Soldier" many veterans were delighted to see fade away.
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    Tried them but they just give me a headache. Never have I ever driven a vehicle over 110 MPH. That was all I had road for.
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    Years ago, the Federal Dept of Education pushed a theory called the Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK). My mom hated it and fought it for years because it's recondite knowledge that makes you special.
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    scissors
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    Limerence is a fifty cent word for the whatever the hell it is that has gone wrong in the mind of a stalker.
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    The most gangsta cat you've ever seen.
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    When you are born and raised in the South, sometimes it’s difficult to shake some of the mumpsimus of our culture. Honor codes, expected manners and beliefs we are raised with make us feel a bit like aliens in a culture that seems defined by no culture at all.
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    Tequila
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