I had a good day. It was my mother's birthday . . . so there was a lot of good food and amusing stories about her and I even went to the bingo hall with her where I won one hundred and forty-five dollars. Shortly after going in side to change into some cooler clothes as it had gotten muggy, I saw a cat on my front porch. This is no great surprise ( Read more... )

Title: Stranger In Our Midst (Working Title) 
Chapter: 1/? 
Rating: PG-R 
Genre: Fantasy
Summary: Unknown to the royal family, a thread connects them almost from the first time a member of their clan took the throne. Divine intervention is in order against the demon who has caused so much havoc but the Goddess finds that her mercenaries are almost as ( Read more... )

 
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Prompt: Everybody Lies

Have you ever had a daughter? One old man asks another as they stand on the porch of their apartment building with nothing to do and nowhere to go and nobody to be except for their own little niche they had both carved out. They watched a group of children on the other side of the street who had take a break from the athletic ( Read more... )

Does anyone else think that perhaps we need to employ the very basic social and political skill of being able to see things from another culture's point of view?

Of course, we're bound by our own moral scrupals to support freedom of the press in other countries, but the United States would hardly be happy if other countries were invited here for an ( Read more... )