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Skepticism and the Word
There was never any god in my house and almost no talk about spirituality that I remember. My entire life, I've been free to believe whatever I wanted. I've believed some really outrageous things - some of them invented, some of them written by people with no scientific literacy whatsoever. I believed like a child for a long time, with no ( Read more... ) -
Salvation Bound (Part 1/6 [?])
Too soon he parked in front of the house. It took all his willpower to exit the car. I could just drive, he thought as he picked his way across the rotten, groaning expanse of the porch, I could put an entire continent between us. He smirked at his self-deception. Yes. A continent, an ocean, and all the while knowing what I abandoned here ( Read more... ) -
Reading List
The Internet curses me even as it edifies.
Or maybe nothing so dramatic as that. However, since the Internet came into my life at 17 (it didn't start taking a major role until I turned 20, however - I got the Internet a little late for my generation) I've tapered off terribly on my reading, especially fiction. I haven't used the Internet ( Read more... ) -
Carnival: Satiated (Part I)
In the filthy tent gone grey and dun with time and travel and sin, the men of the town packed in like fish in a tin and their greasy, greedy reek rose, rose, rose to the ropes in the dark high above. So small a place, this Harvest Downs, that the entire population of menfolk squirmed their way inside, packed close and tight and ( Read more... )