Category: Posts
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Writing Prompt: The Scorpion and the Frog
Prompt: Animal fable “The Scorpion and the Frog” Time: approximately 60 minutes. Once upon a time, a young man named Phil wanted desperately to get out of his home town. He had spent his whole life there learning to do what everyone in the town did, work at the mill. The mill provided employment and…
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The New Life of Gilly Vane
The wedding was like any other, dancing, food, speeches. Except this was a wedding in the Community. When two people marry here, instead of feeding each other cake, they feed each other poison. J and B were my two best friends in the world. We came up together in business, in life. Everyone else we…
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How to Slay Your Demons (and Live With Them)
Demon slayers aren’t what you think. Shit, demons aren’t what you think. For so long demons were considered supernatural, and even when they weren’t, even after all the metaphors for the human condition became tired and cliché, even then, they were considered myth. But now we know they are real. The clinical evidence of their…
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The Light Bringer
The horrors that exist Are not inventions, mine I wanted you to see The Dark’s as old as time Didn’t mean to make you cry Never wanted you to die I only wanted truth You could only live with lies I only brought the light The Dark’s always inside I only brought the light It…
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Cocktail Hour
It was my second chance to make amends with my brother, but this time I was forced to carry his lifeless body up 10 floors. Luckily for him, he wasn’t dead yet. Upstairs in my apartment, I had a complete first-aid kit, the kind you learn to make when you’re an Emergency Medical Technician, i.e.,…
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Caught on Tape
Podcasting. How did I get here? 24 episodes and six months later, and I feel like I will do this for the rest of my life. It doesn’t matter whether or not you know what I am talking about. Or if you’ve ever listened to my podcast. That’s not why I do it. But I’ll…
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In Vino Veritas
“If you know anything about that gorgeous southern clime, then you know they are known for their wine.” –Me, referring to Argentina In vino veritas. In wine, there is truth. But I’ll get to that in a moment. I’m a drinker. Always have been. Always will be. Sometimes I am selective, sometimes not. For example,…