Tales from my head
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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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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…
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What is love? Who knows? It’s different things to different people. But boy is it grand! Give some, get some! Love is blind, love is kindanything more puts you in a bind.When you look for it, you will not find it!Love starts with you; love yourself,if you can’t, love won’t survive.When you ignore it, you…