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The Lobby
Blood drips onto the cover of the Highlights magazine in my hands. Sure is foggy and beige in here. My tongue can’t stop finding the gap where my right front tooth used to protrude. This chair is uncomfortable. The armrests are too far apart and there’s nowhere to put my feet. When do I get…
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Unsupervised – An Excerpt
The crack we smoked was funded by my parents. They didn’t know that, of course, but I had their spare ATM card and knew the PIN – a holdover from a younger era when I was still an upstanding trustworthy child. Although, I wouldn’t have had the PIN…
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When Billionaires Collide
Magnus Eton paced the well-trod hallway carpet outside the hotel conference room with mild distress. Ellis Currante and entourage had not yet arrived, and if Magnus were to actually go into the room, he would be put in the position of waiting…
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The Wisdom of the Day
Kelly’s quirky escapades have become legendary amongst her classmates. As a bubbly sophomore at Maple High, she’s entangled everything from gum and pencils to paperclips and staples in her ample blondeness. This entanglement is typically resolved when the nearest, largest brute of a teenage boy can be enlisted to assist with her conundrum. Today, her…
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Hemingway is an S.O.B #23
Now the boy was gone and the kitten had grown into an old cat and had outlived the boy…
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The Three Curses of The Jungle (I)
I know I’m getting more mature but I’m not quite willing to part with my long-held pastime of playing with legos just yet. They’re not as good as Penthouse, which I adore, but I can still play with legos in my parent’s living room while watching my parent’s TV…
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A Brief People’s History of the Internet
I was there, in the haughty & accelerated days of the original dotcom boom, when eavesdropping at a coffee shop would reveal tales of websites and e-commerce and code deployments; software and server purchases en masse; the blooming of a million new opportunities to be exploited for untold riches; and the rising new pinnacle of…
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