Fiction
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The town was filled with alien talk. It all started earlier that morning when Crazy Joe rode into town from his shack in the mountains like he does every week to sell the fruits of his weekly toil. Crazy Joe still pans for gemstones in the many spring fed creeks in the mountains that cradles…
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The parasite rode into town on the back of a fat boy. The fat boy’s name was Kennith. Kenny to his friends. The same fucking friends who always leave him behind on Bull hill when he is forced by gravity and his love for Twinkies to push his bike to the top. Kenny doesn’t mind.…
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The day the world lost its mind started like any other. The earth speeding along its solar orbit, happily spinning on its axis, dragging the moon with it on its path. Satellites sending and receiving data, bits and bytes that records and coordinates life on the ground. The night-line receding as the sun chase it…
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The spaceship kept the sun between it and Earth after it entered the solar system. This circuitous route took longer, but the ship’s programming dictates that surprise was best when the planet it is approaching housed intelligent lifeforms. Too much advance warning leads to complication. Deceleration was slow, made slower by the need for stealth. The Earth completed…
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Some thoughts about alcohol In the United States alcohol kills almost 200 thousand people each year. When you consider the damage it does to families and property it is amazing that it is even legal. Globally alcohol is the seventh leading cause of premature death. If eating corn had the same effect on society I am…
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The car The car did not know how it came to being. One moment it wasn’t, and the next moment it was. Shiny and new with a special smell, all its components perfectly fitting together, perfectly working together, ready to go places. The car’s first owner was a heavyset banker. A smoker and lover of German food, especially…
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The killer overslept. Again! Third time this week. Fucking internet! Spending too much time at night wasting time, into the morning hours, doing nothing productive. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube! These things all seem to conspire to grab and keep your attention. You watch one video about kittens and the next thing you know it’s after…
Tales from my head 