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How bizarre is this?
A great and wondrous mystery unfolds today.
A virgin gives birth and remains a virgin!
The Word is made flesh without leaving His Father!
Angels and shepherds glorify Him!
Let us join in their song:
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace!"
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40,000
This has been the hardest NaNo yet. Usually by now I've already been validated; instead, I have another 10K to go. I should be writing now, but...
9,000 words today already. I need a break and the right to edit what I'm typing, just for a little while.
I wonder if Stargate: Universe is up on Hulu yet. -
First report
7,493, words NaNo meter 9.5% complete
I should have 5001 words at the end of the day to be on track, so I'm looking good.
Except my bosses just announced we're hosting a PQD (pre-district qualifying debate) the first Friday in December. Suddenly a lot of free time just disappeared. -
What just happened on Project Runway?
I mean, seriously? -
Bruce Prinza
Drunk. Unless he's scavenging, the single most profitable job in Cleveland, in which case, Bruce Prinza is working for drinking money. Before the plagues, Bruce was a steadily employed serviceman for the local natural gas distribution company. He inspected installations, shut off or turned on the gas, and loved his family: his wife Annie, his ( Read more... ) -
Alfred Firestone, maintenance man.
In the early 1900s, when his emancipated grandfather moved to Ohio, he shed his master's name and picked the one name that meant wealth in Akron: Firestone. It was the only wealthy thing about the family. Generations of hard-working family had not built up wealth or self-respect. Alquis Firestone ran away from home when he was 15, changed his ( Read more... ) -
Nicolas Sharoz, a boy without a home
Arif Sharoz is the foremost DNA expert in the world, but his only son, Nicolas, doesnt' care. Every year, the father and son have moved around the world in the name of science. Nicolas, now a gangly, pimply youth of 13, will do whatever it takes not to return to Europe or the Middle East. He doesn't care what his father is doing or the purpose ( Read more... ) -
Mica Prinza, protagonist.
Mica - Monica - Angelina Prinza, is almost an anomaly. In decaying Cleveland, she's a sixteen year old girl in a city where the ratio of men to women is almost 5 to 1. She doesn't know any girls her own age. Her mother died ten years ago in the first wave of the Polorax Flu. Her grandmother died three weeks before Mica was born. If it weren't ( Read more... )
