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Tales and Telling: The Gift
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Thursday, August 13, 2009. I cannot walk on water. I cannot raise the dead. I cannot feed a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. I am not the second coming of the Christ, though there are many who refuse to believe me because of what I can. Do I can cure the sick. I can make the blind see. I can make the crippled walk. The villagers gathered their children and hid in their huts. Jane and I went to our hut as well. While Jane checked her guns, I watched the approaching truck. Outside, the truck had sto...
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Tales and Telling: September 2009
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. This is my entry in the Friday Challenge. For this week. The challenge: Write no more than 1000 words using this photo as inspiration. I am writing to express my most bitter disappointment in your company's services. When one considers the high cost of said services, one expects to receive the very best; especially when your brochure offers that exact proclamation. But I am getting ahead of myself. It certainly lived up to its billing; loud, its streets crawling with ground ...
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Tales and Telling: April 2009
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Thursday, April 23, 2009. Slay the Princess, Rescue the Dragon, And-. This is my entry in the Friday Challenge. The text in italics is the opening provided by Bruce Bethke. The challenge is to finish the story. Icehawk paused a moment, at the foot of the great ruined stone staircase—. You—you knew I was coming? Of course. I'm a Seer. And you have brought my price? I thought you were a Seer.". It's more fun this way. Have you brought my price? Icehawk considered the box nervously. "I, er—". He cried again...
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Tales and Telling: I, Lex Luthor
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Thursday, July 16, 2009. I, Lex Luthor. Written for the Friday Challenge due July 16. The challenge is to take a well known story and turn it on its head; make the good guy bad or the bad guy good. Even from the grave, I can hear the snorts of disbelief at this claim. Lex Luthor, the arch villain, working to benefit humanity? This is the final proof that, in life, I was insane, right? Just think of what he could teach us! Just think of what we could accomplish with his advanced intellect to guide us!
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Tales and Telling: February 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Mr Fox was not known to the host and hostess, but She had no doubt he would be asked to join the soirée they held in honor of their daughter, Mary. Was Mr. Fox not suave and handsome and, from the cut of his clothes, obviously rich? He was the perfect suitor for their daughter, just as She intended. Quite right, my pet. She spoke in his mind. Quite right, indeed! But none of this was visible on his face or evident in his voice. Mr. Fox was played like a puppet, slave ...Mary ...
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Tales and Telling: December 2013
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Darkness Falls - A Cliff Hanger Adventure. S controls with the practiced ease only possible from a former flying ace, Cliff Hanger pointed to the hilltop farm ahead. Are you sure that. Cliff yelled over the roar of the aeroplane. S younger brother struggled to keep the map open against the buffeting wind and yelled back,. If the little bit Beth managed to say over the telephone before she was cut off is correct, then that. As he went into a barrel roll, Cliff hollered,.
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Tales and Telling: Lodging a Complaint
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. This is my entry in the Friday Challenge. For this week. The challenge: Write no more than 1000 words using this photo as inspiration. I am writing to express my most bitter disappointment in your company's services. When one considers the high cost of said services, one expects to receive the very best; especially when your brochure offers that exact proclamation. But I am getting ahead of myself. It certainly lived up to its billing; loud, its streets crawling with ground ...
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Tales and Telling: A Box Full of Smarts
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. A Box Full of Smarts. This story is part of my regular storytelling repertoire. It's based on a Slavic tale but about half of it is original material created by me. Once there was a village whose citizens did not have a spare brain cell among the lot of them. They were known far and wide for their silly solutions to everyday problems. How silly were their solutions? 8220;No,“ said another, “that would be too much work. There’s an easier way. Smart peop...8220;You can buy that i...
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Tales and Telling: December 2008
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Monday, December 22, 2008. Joy to the World - a Christmas Retail Rant. December 23, 1989. 7:45 AM. The Saturday before Christmas. The mall is already packed, meaning one of the big anchor stores opened at 6:00 or something. I get to the store and raise the gate just enough to get into the store. Four customers duck under the gate before I can start lowering it again. 8220;We don’t open until 8:00,” I say. Holding up a game, one of the customers asks, “Have you got this for the Commodore 64? I land my fir...
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Tales and Telling: April 2010
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. A Box Full of Smarts. This story is part of my regular storytelling repertoire. It's based on a Slavic tale but about half of it is original material created by me. Once there was a village whose citizens did not have a spare brain cell among the lot of them. They were known far and wide for their silly solutions to everyday problems. How silly were their solutions? 8220;No,“ said another, “that would be too much work. There’s an easier way. Smart peop...8220;You can buy that i...
