Had too much caffeine and nicotine.... I let the insomnia demon drive and now it's nearly 6 am and I have to be back on the road at 9.

The nice thing about LJ is ... no one who might worry about me will see this.

I know like one person who still uses LJ regularly and I doubt she clicks the friends feed button very often.

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The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are the most important stories we will ever learn.  It is a fearful thing to be an unreliable narrator unto oneself...

Chapter 1:

Detective Amelia Turner gazed out of her office window, the city's skyline was painted in wavering hues of orange and purple as the sun descends below the horizon. The indigo waves of light splashed onto her face as she waited for that elusive green flash that some claimed could only be seen at the last moment before the sun vanished for ( Read more... )

I have youtube videos I worked on that have millions of views.  Ads I created or edited sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. Poems I wrote have been published.  Stories I wrote have won contests. Pictures I posted have been memed to death.  My TikToks get thousands of views, my old twitter had 50K followers at one point.   ( Read more... )

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Chapter 5
Rome. The name conjures up images of empires and great battles, slaves and heroes. Rome was glorious but in time it grew decadent and corrupt.
Following Theseus’s loss of the Golden Orb many tales sprang up saying that it could be sought here, or was in the possession of a carpenter there. Miracles and revelries were attributed to its ( Read more... )

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