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Front porch (http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/991512.html)
The three men stared at the scarred and warped map of the valley. It had been painstakingly constructed by native tribesmen hiding in the forest surrounding the fortress ( Read more... ) -
Shot in the heart
It’s ok to be sad, I told myself as I sunk into the plane seat. Around me families, couples, friends were organising themselves to prepare for 13 hours of being trapped in a metal cigar. I was in mourning, like an idiot, for something that never existed. Nothing had changed, except I had. A life of dull progress interspersed with intensely painful ( Read more... ) -
Life is Art
Life is Art ( Read more... ) -
Just don't look
Machine gun fire sputtered behind us as I two-wheeled the car around the bend. Pike’s crew were gnawing on our back bumper, unafraid to rivet anyone as they aimed their guns at us ( Read more... ) -
White out
I gave myself thirty two seconds to consider my alternatives. Thirty two seconds later my predictive subroutines had showed me my odds, but nothing had changed, there was only one option. I called up my scan of the Red Giant, I focused my attention on the fifty six pixels that showed the Star Engine devouring this ancient behemoth of a star. I had ( Read more... ) -
They said it couldn't be done
The ghost of a particle. It was the mad idea that was joked about by every second year physicist. It was up there with variable speed of light, tachyons, hyper strings. It was a solution of the mathematics, but it wasn’t real ( Read more... ) -
This is a gift, it comes with a price, who is the lamb and who is the knife?
I wiped the blood of the last guardian of my sword. When it was clean I sheaved it, and turned to look at the young man. He barely had a beard, I thought about the life he could have had, while the priests dragged his body away to join the others. Like the rest of us he had given everything for the ritual. The Bishop came over to congratulate me, ( Read more... ) -
Let's go to the mall
My phone was losing battery as I played through another round of candy crush. I had spent too much time and money on that, and it was all my mother’s fault. She couldn’t let my sister go to the mall alone, but didn’t have the time to take her herself. So I was babysitting not just my sister, but two of her friends. I’d already had the snickers of ( Read more... ) -
The desire that is waffles
They want waffles, by God they will get waffles. Waffles are basically pancakes and I’m good at making pancakes. I move around my kitchen pulling ingredients out of my overly large cupboards. My left side hurt, more from my rabies shots than the dog bite. I never thought needles would hurt so much, worse than when I broke my arm ( Read more... ) -
Are we becoming numb to the violence?
Nature is red in tooth and claw. Poets can encapsulate the sentiment, scientists can describe the process, but in the end the wars of nature and the wars of man are about the same things. Young men have always fought; to protect or to claim. This is no different than the lion and the buffalo, they both fight over the buffalo’s flesh, the buffalo ( Read more... )