Tales from my head
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Sunday morning church service started like every other. Congregants talked and laughed in hushed tones, genuinely happy to see each other, or faking it so masterfully that no one could tell the difference. They laughed, joked and judged each other by their cars and clothes, and secretly thanked their lord that they were doing so…
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Ong’s excitement is clearly visible on his face. The deep lines that usually divide the prominent ridges above his eyes are almost invisible, and his large ivory-colored teeth show through a wide grin. Tonight, both moons will be full, and he can choose a mate. He doesn’t have to choose; this choice was made a…
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It might be true that everyone in the world has ‘the one that got away’. It might also be true that we think about them often, wondering what could have been, wishing things turned out differently, so you could stay together. It might also be true that this ‘first love’ is nothing more than a…
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Every week has the same number of days. These days have the same names and occur in the same sequence. These days are equally long. People pack the same activities into these days. They all go to work at the same time and take lunch at the same time. They go home at the same…
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Michele was conceived against her mother’s will. The rapist kept the woman for five days in his run-down single wide. She used a Home Depot bucket for a toilet, careful to not knock it over with the chain padlocked to her left ankle. Another bucket with water was for drinking and washing. On the sixth…
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Hoekom stink ‘n poep so sterk in die kerk,en hoekom slaap ek die lekkerste by die werk?Hoekom is ons so haastig om groot te word,net om later te kla dit is sommer stront!Hoekom is ‘n grap so vreeslik snaaks wanneer vertel in ‘n klas of by ‘n begrafplaas?Hoekom word tyd en gesond gemors deur die…
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Life! Just do it. Make stuff. Break stuff. Move, think, create, destroy. Experience pain and joy. Waste as little of it as possible. Our time is limited, don’t let others make it more so. I don’t believe religion’s lie, eventually everything alive will die,with not a clue what’s on the other side,this I believe to…
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Language is amazing! I was curious and found some words that end in ‘tant’. Some of them I have never heard of! Being hesitantly instant is difficult,but you can be hesitant in an instant.The same might apply to the following lines;being militantly noncombatant,or blatantly reluctant,acting importantly crepitant,behaving constantly inconstant.Feeling resistantly repentant,conversing insultingly interactant,acting volitant exorbitant,being…
Tales from my head 