Humid, thick, the air is heavy inside an air-conditioned airport. My black suitcase rolls behind me and my shoulder carries the weight of everything else I couldn’t fit, but have to bring along. The other travelers are all around me, scurrying about from boards to boarding, pulling behind them suitcases much like mine. Ticket counters [...]
Jim stared a moment longer at the computer screen, then sat back and rubbed his eyes. ‘Ben, do you want anything? I need a break.’ ‘I wouldn’t say no to a couple glazed, Jim. Thanks.’ ‘Alright.’ Jim made his way out of his cubicle, heading toward the coffee table and thinking. I haven’t been able [...]
“Look at this, will you, just look at this!” John barked as he slapped the morning newspaper with his hand. “I’m telling you, Mary, this world is going to hell in a hand basket.” His wife regarding him from across her breakfast, her coffee half way to her lips. “Is it about Chris getting disqualified [...]
On an apparently somewhat normal seeming day at the local bookstore… psychic ghost lady informed management that there were angry native american spirits in this store and that there was a portal to other realms located in the back of the cafe… pagan goddess did not like this at all so she hid crystals in [...]
‘You’re like no one I’ve ever known,’ she says to me quite slow; ‘The way you think, the words you speak; your feelings ever flow. Seeing good in everyone, all mankind before your eyes, The purest light, the deepest dark- you, they mesmerize…
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Posted 17 February 2010
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During a time of economic depression, an industry that had brought them life and love was beginning to fade away. To survive, difficult fiscal decisions were being made daily, but nothing had happened quickly enough to rebound their failing economy, drastic measures had to be taken. Operation Bigfoot began when the lights went out in [...]
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