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Falsified

January 27, 2010

Image by skylarprimm via Flickr

The gates swung shut with a sonorous clang and St. Peter turned to the line.
“Next.” A man stepped forth from the head of the milling throng and approached.
“Wow,” the man said gazing at the tall gates, “I’m finally here. It’s a long wait on line.”
“Name?” said St. Peter.
“Those gates sure are [...]

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Active Rest

September 30, 2009

Active rest is a fitness term.  When most people work out they do a set of exercises then rest before doing another set.  For a good number of people that means more time is spent standing around resting than exercising.  When one of these people starts to work with a good trainer they are often [...]

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“Orare est Laborare.” —Benedictine motto

August 26, 2009

If it had not been for the integrated axiotromic calendar, Brother Leon would not have known which decade he was living in, let alone the day or the time.  Not that time mattered much out here.  Each day on this world, with its three suns and four oddly orbiting moons, provided only fleeting hours of [...]

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Aperitif

August 20, 2009

This is a ‘one-pager’ that we do alot for exercises in my writing group. As mentioned in the Short and Sweet post it’s just a sketch. The idea was to write a piece using only one syllable words.
He sat back in his chair and played at calm. He clenched the stem of the pipe in [...]

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“Though this be madness…” (Hamlet II.ii.206)

August 19, 2009

What is madness?  Who are the people that occupy the lunatic fringes of society—those we refer to as crazy, insane, nuts, addled, bonkers, unsound, disturbed, unbalanced, raving, demented, unstable, schizo, nutty, unhinged, loopy, batty, daft, or “non compos mentis”?  What is the difference between someone who is euphemistically deemed “touched” or “eccentric” versus an individual [...]

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