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I'm filling out the boys kindergarten forms today. I'm not excited for kindergarten, I'm pretty nervous. Preschool has been so great, I wish we could stay there until they are 18!
Both boys are up right now and AJ just said "hi" to Zack, which kind of bowled me over because I don't think I've ever heard him talk to his brother like that! Yesterday when I brought his sandwich up to him while he was in therapy, he said "hi" to me, and then Britney prompted him to say sandwich, and he said "san". Then when I left he said "bye" to me. A whole conversation!
Lately Aliza challenges me in different ways, I can't decide if she's naughty or if I'm not giving her enough attention. I think she'll be grounded for a few days so I can punish her and give her more attention both at the same time. ;-)
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It's tough, but I didn't give it away stupidly, says gallant loser Murray
In the end, when the tears had subsided, Andy Murray could only console himself with one thought: 'I'm getting closer.'
Another thought was that he had just lost to a player who, amazingly, has managed to overtake Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic and reclaim the world No 1 position, which he will now hold for long enough to overtake the 286 weeks of Pete Sampras.
Tears: Andy Murray wept as he addressed the Centre Court crowd
'That's the best I've played in a Slam final,' said Murray, who has now lost four of them and who broke down briefly when interviewed by BBC's Sue Barker in the immediate aftermath of the final. He had asked to be excused the convention of parading his runner-up salva around the arena.
'This is very tough but it wasn't like I gave away stupid games and stuff. I played a good match. I made pretty good decisions for the most part so I'm happy with that.
'I felt more comfortable this morning and before the match than I had done in previous Slam finals, but it's still very disappointing.
Joining in: Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears was also in tears
Embrace: Roger Federer and Andy Murray comforted one another
'If I wasn't emotional I guess I'm probably in the wrong sport. When the roof closed he played unbelievable tennis.'
Murray was asked if he saw a comparison with basketball superstar LeBron James, one of his sporting heroes, who took an age before winning an NBA Championship this year with Miami Heat after nine years.
'Maybe I'm in a similar situation right now. When you lose it doesn't get any easier. I think he said after he lost the NBA finals last year that he's having to go through a lot of nightmares before he reaches his dream.
'You need to try and show strength of character to come back from it and hopefully then one day you get there.'
Despite having turned 25, Murray still believes he is getting better and that one day he will be able to emulate Fred Perry and end Britain's 76-year wait for a Grand Slams singles champion.
While the toll of the pressure finally told in his emotional prizegiving speech, when he needed a minute to compose himself, he expressed pride in the way he had handled the extreme focus that falls upon him in the big fortnight.
'It's not an easy tournament for British players in many ways, but I think I dealt with all the extra things away from the tournament pretty well - definitely better than I have done in the past,' he said.
'It was my first time in a Wimbledon final, I've played three semi-finals before so I'm still improving, still working, still playing better tennis and that's all I can do.'
He thanked the crowd who had abandoned their usual fondness for Federer to cheer him on and those who had queued all night just for the privilege of watching on Henman Hill/Murray Mound.
Him too: Federer broke down after winning the match
Too much: Murray struggled to deliver his speech
Simply the greatest: Roger Federer wins a seventh Wimbledon title
'It makes such a difference having their support, I'd like to thank them for their dedication, I'm just sorry I couldn't do it for them.'
And then there was Federer, the Swiss genius who still dedicates himself to winning titles, even when he has smashed so many records.
Murray added: 'We're talking about one of the greatest athletes in any sport of all time, so you've got to put it in context a bit. He could be sitting on 20 Grand Slams already if it wasn't for the odd point or a few inches here and there in recent close matches. He's still playing great tennis and he deserves it.'
Federer paid tribute to Murray and when he tipped him to win a Grand Slam eventually, he insisted it was not just out of sympathy.
'I think Andy's giving himself so many looks at the big titles, and I really do believe deep down that he will win Grand Slams and not just one. This is genuine. He works extremely hard and is as professional as you can be,' said the 30-year-old Swiss.
'I really do believe and hope for him that he wins one.'
Federer thinks there could be other majors he himself can win, even though he turns 31 next month.
'I'm so happy the age I am now. I've had a great run and I know there's more possible. I'm at a very stable place in my life.
'The victory today and getting back to No1 is a dream come true for me and my family. Trying to juggle everything hasn't been easy but I think I'm playing some of the best tennis of my life right now.'
Federer's record-equalling seventh Wimbledon singles title was his first in a Grand Slam since he beat Murray to win the Australian Open in 2010.
He said of his barren spell: 'I see it more as a stepping stone, a period I had to go through as well. To win 90 per cent of my matches throughout the year is impossible every single year. So you're always going to go through ups and downs.
'But I knew how close I was for the last few years, and some people didn't quite see that maybe for different reasons. But I knew and I think the belief got me to victory today.
'I think I have played some of my best tennis in the last two matches. It's worked out here that I have played my best tennis in the semis and the final. I couldn't be more happy. It feels so familiar (to win) and it's a great moment.
'It equals me with Pete (Sampras) who is my hero. And the world No 1 ranking, they don't get gifted to you.'
Top form: Federer felt he played his best tennis in the last two games
Murray will now take some time off before turning his attention to his next event which will be the Olympics back at Wimbledon, an event starting in 20 days.
'The Olympics is a special event and I want to make sure I'm ready,' he added. 'If I play like I did this week I have a good chance of winning a medal.'
Murray's former coach Mark Petchey believes the only way his former charge could have seen off Federer was to get the job done quickly. He told Sky Sports News: 'Once Roger got himself out of a bit of a hole in the second set, it was going to be a long road back. The longer it went on, the more it was going to benefit him because Andy has been on court four hours longer (in the tournament), plus the emotional strain of trying to win your first Grand Slam.'
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Tomb of Lê Văn Duyệt
|Tomb of Lê Văn Duyệt
|Thượng Công Miếu
Main worship palace of the tomb
|Alternative names
|Lăng Tả Quân Quận Công Lê Văn Duyệt
Lăng Ông Bà Chiểu
|General information
|Tomb complex
|Bình Thạnh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Construction started
|19th century
Tomb of Lê Văn Duyệt (Vietnamese: Lăng Tả quân Lê Văn Duyệt), also known as Tomb of the Marshal in Ba Chieu (Lăng Ông Bà Chiểu) is a Vietnamese tomb located in Bình Thạnh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tomb was originally built for Marshal Lê Văn Duyệt and his wife but later became some other Nguyễn Dynasty's mandarins worship house.
Lê Văn Duyệt (1763–1831) was a Vietnamese general who helped Nguyễn Ánh put down the Tây Sơn rebellion and unify Vietnam.[1]
Born into a family of peasants nearby Tiền Giang, Duyet joined prince Nguyễn Ánh's side in fighting the Tây Sơn rebellion. Because of Duyet's military abilitiy, he quickly rose through the rank of Nguyễn army and became a marshal when the Tây Sơn-Nguyễn war ended. After the foundation of Nguyễn Dynasty, Duyet served as a high-ranking mandarin and, later, viceroy of southern part of Vietnam.[1] His governance greatly stabilized and developed the south of Vietnam, turning it into a wealthy and peaceful region. In addition, Duyet opposed emperor Minh Mạng's succession and defended Christian missionaries and converts from the emperor's isolationalist and Confucian policies.
On 3 July 1832, Lê Văn Duyệt died in the Citadel of Saigon at the age of 68. He was buried at Bình Hòa, Gia Định (present day Ho Chi Minh City). His tomb was called "Lăng Ông (ở) Bà Chiểu" (Tomb of the Marshal in Ba Chieu) by the local people.[2]
Duyet's death opened the way for Minh Mạng to apply his policies in the south, as the viceroy's successor would have lacked the influence to defy the emperor. The emperor also tried to reduce Duyet's followers' political power by abolishing the post of viceroy and putting the south under his direct rule, thus making Duyet the last viceroy.[3] Soon after Duyet's death, Minh Mạng's new appointees arrived and took over the local administration. The new officials then launched an investigation and reported that Duyet and his aides had engaged in corruption and abusive practices.[3]
As a result, Bạch Xuân Nguyên, who led the investigation, ordered the posthumous humiliation of Duyet. This resulted in the desecration of his tomb, the execution of sixteen relatives, and the arrests of his colleagues.[3] Minh Mạng's attitude led Lê Văn Khôi, an adopted son of Lê Văn Duyệt, to revolt against the emperor.[4]
After suppressing the revolt, the emperor had Duyet's tomb desecrated and had a stele with the inscription "Đây chỗ tên lại cái lộng quyền Lê Văn Duyệt chịu phép nước" (Here the eunuch Lê Văn Duyệt who abused power was subjugated by law) placed over the ruins.[5] The tomb remained in disrepair until the reign of next emperor, Thiệu Trị, who rehabilitated Duyet and restored his tomb.[6] Then, emperor Tự Đức turned the tomb into a national monument.[5]
After the establishment of the colony of Cochinchina, Duyet was continuously venerated in spite of the French policies of dismantling the Vietnamese imperial system and its ritual customs. Duyet's yearly celebrations was attended by politicians of Cochinchina. In 1937, thank to the donations from number of colonial government officials and business elites, Duyet's tomb was renovated and extended.[6] Under South Vietnam's rule, Duyệt was considered as national greatest hero. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Duyệt was disliked by the current government because of his role in the expansion of French influence in Vietnam and his tomb got dilapidated because of the lack of state maintenance.[7][8] This attitude remained unchanged until the year 2008, when the current government had Duyệt's tomb renovated and let a play portraying the life of Duyet be performed publicly.
Nevertheless, Duyệt is widely regarded by southern Vietnamese people as the local most important hero. Choi Byung Wook described Duyet's popularity as following: "No matter whether they are indigenous Vietnamese or Chinese settlers, Buddhists or Christians, residents of Saigon have long paid enthusiastic tribute to one favorite southern, local hero—Lê Văn Duyệt—whose gorgeous shrine is located on Dinh Tien Hoang street in Binh Thanh District. You will not able to find any other place in Huế or Hanoi where the residents, regardless of ethnic or religious backgrounds, regard their own local hero with such reverence".[9]
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- Buttinger, Joseph (1958). The Smaller Dragon: A Political History of Vietnam. Praeger.
- Mantienne, Frédéric (October 2003). "The Transfer of Western Military Technology to Vietnam in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: The Case of the Nguyen". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 34 (3): 519–534. doi:10.1017/S0022463403000468.
- McLeod, Mark W. (1991). The Vietnamese response to French intervention, 1862–1874. Praeger. ISBN 0-275-93562-0.
- Choi, Byung Wook (2004). Southern Vietnam under the reign of Minh Mạng (1820–1841): central policies and local response. SEAP Publications. ISBN 0-87727-138-0.
- Taylor, Philip (2004). Goddess on the rise: pilgrimage and popular religion in Vietnam (illustrated ed.). University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2801-1.
- Do, Thien (2003). Vietnamese supernaturalism: views from the southern region Anthropology of Asia series (illustrated ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30799-6.
- Hall, Daniel George Edward (1964). A history of South-east Asia (2 ed.). Macmillan.
- Ray, Nick; Dragicevich, Peter; Louis, Regis St. (2007). Vietnam. Lonely Planet. ISBN 1-74104-306-9.
- Dodd, Jan; Lewis, Mark (2003). Rough guide to Vietnam. Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-095-3.
- Trần Trọng Kim (2005). Việt Nam sử lược (in Vietnamese). Ho Chi Minh City: Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House.
- Huỳnh Minh (2006). Gia Định Xưa (in Vietnamese). Ho Chi Minh City: Văn Hóa-Thông Tin Publishing House.
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The company tallied up $7.5 billion in profits on $37.5 billion of sales in its fourth quarter, led once again by the iPhone.
Here's how Apple did when stacking up its results for the entire year:
$170.9 billion in revenue.
$37 billion in profits.
150.2 million iPhones sold (versus 125 million last year).
71.1 million iPads sold (versus 58.31 million last year).
16.5 million Macs sold (versus 18.15 million last year).
26.4 million iPods sold (versus 35.16 million last year).
$16 billion in revenue from its iTunes business.
More than 400 million visitors at its retail stores
49 new or remodeled retail stores.
$50 million in revenue per store
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Darkone2 im sorry for your bad night but how come you haven't given her a bad feedback so we can see her come back reply? Even thou i haven't had this happen to myself and sorry for the loss of money but some time punters do slag off the WG for they own reasons, i emailed her on AW, just now and would like to hear her reply on the night.From the 1st overnighter she had she did reply and she may have had to go to her child aid and she did state she tired to re-book but the guy turned her down,(again seems odd that a punter would not re-book, was the money given back or not. I like to believe it was and the punter just spent it else where and she loss the fee)
From the 1st overnighter she had she did reply and she may have had to go to her child aid and she did state she tired to re-book but the guy turned her down,(again seems odd that a punter would not re-book, was the money given back or not. I like to believe it was and the punter just spent it else where and she loss the fee)
Thanks for that shame thou nice pics. Plus why did you give the guy your number to text you+ why would he come to your room?
I didn't give him phone number. According to the text trail, on my phone, I texted her at 23.12 saying 'scam then'. At 23.22, I received a text from a new number which said (and I quote - and punctuate -exactly) 'I told you dont blame her we had an agreement would you like to meet me again in person if was a scam I would have not come and see you its not her fault shall i come to you room so for your sake lets leave it there'which I took to be threatening. It also slightly undermined the credibility of his earlier position that she had seen him and run away, because without being Sherlock Homes, I suspect the only way he could have either known she had that text from me or my room number was if she was sitting next to him.Anyway I am sure everyone is bored with this now. Either believe it or don't.
Can't you share the number of the bloke who threatened you? Might be interesting if he received dozens of messages in return
Can't we report her scam to adultwork, so they can block her profile?
I did back in September but just got a reply saying in effect that what transpires between site users is non of AWs concern. Makes me laugh when I see that bit on profiles which says you can contact xxx on this è-mail without all the protection offered by AW, because it seems to me that that protection is f**k all.


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Hey, very new to this site so not sure how it all works yet. I'm 23 and I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia last week after Rheumatologist ruled out all other diseases. Not going to lie, I'm finding it quite tough - especially as I have a small child to look after too. My symptoms are mainly just42 replies 7 votes
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Sudden onset of symptoms, is that normal?
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Myriad symptoms
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When she makes it to the side of the bus she retrieves her pack, checking to be sure Mimzy her stuffed traveling companion is secured to the side, before hoisting the large pack up onto her shoulder and following the crowd into the passenger waiting area inside. She scans the inside of the station noting the restroomsand,the closed for the night food counter.
She checks the clock on the wall and the time on her ticket. She'll have to wait here for an hour before the next bus north.
She sets her pack on the floor up against the one long bench seatand sits back, sprawls out her legsand stretches her arms.
She reaches into the back pocket of her denim cutoffs and pulls out the worn paper folded in fourths; smooths it out on her knee. It looks like one of those trope movie ransom notes, cut and pasted words in different styles and colors and, she supposes, in a way it sort of was. It was a map that would lead to the answer. It was more than a game for her it was the only thing she knew.
Full text below audio[Audio Content Warning:]there's a string of curse words near the end
Sestina: The Main Character (MC)
This is a story about an MC afflicted with passion.
Who, like the restless needle of a compass,
was forever seeking the Horizon.
< spoiler alert > the ending of this story is already foretold
and is the same for every single being in creation.
It's been said we're all just players of some unseen narrator.
A nameless, unknowable, spiteful, narrator
who in the throes of passion
might decide to kill his creation.
So, this MC has a heartbeat like a needle of a spiraling compass.
For as is true for all, inevitably, death has been foretold.
Even for this MC who loves a thing known as, horizon.
They're forever stupidly longing for that ever distant, damned Horizon.
Yes, damned, is the opinion of this narrator,
Who is actually wondering if there is even a point, if it's all been foretold?
But I digress and the MC curses the will of my passion
as we drop them on the shore with naught but map and compass.
Do you see, that this MC is a stubborn, monstrous creation?
(I do confess I also find this fixed verse form to be a monstrous creation.)
What would happen if the MC ever reached their figurative horizon?
Perhaps an HEA* is greater than my abilities can compass?
But what good is an MC to a narrator
if they do not have passion?
We must all live with knowing that eventual, ending foretold.
From your very first breath, there being a last has been foretold.
It's a bargain; the uncanny act of creation.
But back to the MC with all that all-consuming passion.
(Wanting so badly to reach that god damned fucking gosh darn horizon.)
The one who would dare defy the narrator
but is just a feckless wanderer lead by a faulty compass.
There are always dropped stitches and pricked fingers within the compass
of the tapestry woven as it is being foretold.
Does every narrator
hate his creation
for seeking beyond the horizon?
Being able, as the other is not, to fulfill their passion?
In the end the MC lets passion become the compass
and each moment a horizon. The last moment cannot be foretold,
the MC learns, for any man, or his creation, or even a humble narrator.
*HEA stands for Happily Ever After
with much thanks as always to lolaslaughter for being the best cheerleader a gal could have
When I sat down to write this week my Camp NaNoWriMo characters for this session decided to
get involved take over.[Optional Quickie Backstory---]This part is told from the POV of a tiny shape shifting magical being named Sparkie but who has just been referred to as "the imp" by Claudius, his Master's rich (possibly nefarious) benefactor.
Sparkie's Story
He doesn't mind being called Imp. Even though that's technically not what he is.
He was brought forth from a wisp of smoke and evolved over his journey's with Tremaine. Though he insists he was made from flame and this led the man to dub him Sparkie. Spark, Sparkle, and sometimes Firestarter.
Names are what you make them, Tremaine tells him.
That was one of his first lessons. They will identify you as what you mean to them.
Good morning sunshine.
Rise and shine super star.
Get some rest now little friend.
Tremaine needed a companion and Sparkie learned that meant growing up quickly; becoming curious about the world around him. Figuring out the important things.
With Tremaine it was easy. He was exuberant in the life he was leading. The great treasure hunter. Notorious.
Their first time aboard an aether ship together made Sparkie understand completely.
Sparkie loved Ree from the first. She was the young ward of Tremaine's benefactor, a man named Claudius, who mostly sent Tremaine to exotic lands searching for rare books.
Ree was the one who taught Sparkie about love and how the heart could ache.
They had tea parties.
He taught her how to play pirates.
She always wanted to wear a cape.
She read out loud to him from great leather bound tomes.
A is for abalone.
B is for bishop.
Their visits were always too short and by the time they returned it was, dancing at balls, curating the library, needlepoint, baking apple pies, card games and chess games.
And then one day during a round of Beggar My Neighbor,
Do you think fairies are real Sparkie?
I am real.
Yes, but you are a dragon.
So dragons exist but not fairies Ree?
Can you truly become fire? Like Trem says.
He wishes to please her. To make her laugh. To be that which she enjoys.
He sighs and feels alight. He com-busts in all directions. Summoning fire hurts, consumes.
He has known he is Wisp. He is soft scents on gentle breezes.
But he had become an actual pirate by then. He had learned to wield.
He was also Weapon.
He was steel and stone. He was pure magic. Born of smoke. Summoned by a lonely man on moonless night in the forest of Everglen.
Tremaine chooses each piece of wood and lays down incense and herbs. He says words of significance and then tosses a match dipped in sulfur onto the pile.
Nothing happened for a long time,Tremaine would say when telling this story. He went about and made camp. Heated a bit of food and coffee along the edge of the fire. Just as he was about to doze off, a bit of smoke swirled about his shoulder and then hovered before him and dissipated into the air leaving behind the daydream of a cloud of fine particles, an entire life lived in but a single breath.
Sparkie doesn't call his master by his surname, like most, when they are alone. He is teacher, he is summoner, spell caster…demon catcher.
You are not a demon Sparkie, Tremaine insists but Sparkie is not so sure.
He doesn't mind being called Imp because he secretly wishes it was closer to the truth.
The smell of the breeze through the open windows
on the beaches of California
300 Words
She zips up the bag and slings it over her shoulder wishing she had some whiskey to wash down the regret. She grabs her felt hat and resists looking over her shoulder as she heads out the door; tying her bandanna around her wrist and tightening the knot with her teeth.
backwards and holding her thumb up in the air when she feels the right vibe.
She makes up a story about who she is and how she came to be walking along the side of the road with her whole life in a backpack.
She's 25 (give or take six years but somehow being under thirty makes her seem more trustworthy and like less of a fuck up). She just graduated college. She just came to the area to visit family.
She hops out at a strip mall. She waves until the car turns onto the highway. Then she crosses the street and goes into the greyhound station.
Thankfully there isn't a security guard checking tickets at the door so she finds a bench to sit on and leans her head back cradling her back pack on her lap.
They pull off into a coastal rest area with fire pits and campsites. She says her goodbyes to her traveling companions and she hops out to pitch her tent. Her new neighbors offer her scrambled eggs and rice wrapped in tortillas.
She's only a few hundred miles from the punk house.
In the early hours of dawn she peeks out of the tent flap to watch a few of the caravans drive on down the highway.
She stays wrapped up her blanket listening to the waves in the distance until the fog burns off and then crawls out of her tent. She breaks down her camp and hikes up to the highway on-ramp. She makes a sign to prop against her bag and then changes it after an hour.
She sends postcards to the addresses scribbled on the inside cover of her notebook. Dropping them in postboxes like sowing seeds she will never get to see flower. Her boots kicking up dust. Clinging to her like memories, stamping her feet on the dry earth trying to shake it off, trying to forget.
It feels like a hedge maze and they consider they made a wrong turn but the GPS is telling them to turn left and she thinks about the satellites circling the planet plotting a trajectory of the car inching along the the bumpy terrain.
It's the mountains in the distance that she longs for, getting high enough to look down; beyond and further than she's ever been. Fading into the horizon. Betting the world against her courage.
Sonia Terra grips the ladder and gives in to the temptation to look down at the track rushing away beneath her. She pulls herself up another rung. She has to keep going.
She hears Lynessa's cries in her head again when she is violently jerked sideways as the train approaches a bend in the track. Sonia is granted an expansive view of the landscape ahead; squinting through the night.
There's still twenty miles to the bridge she knows is no longer there.
Sonia swings herself onto the roof of the rear car and starts moving along the train as fast as she dares.
A Protector in love with a mortal, how adorable. I mean really, they are just so very fragile.
Elias could have just turned her in to The Authority but instead he had taken Lynessa, had tortured her.
Sonia doesn't have a plan but if she can warn the operator she might be able to save Lynessa and keep the train from plummeting into the canyon.
A sharp pain shoots through her head and Sonia drops to her knees on the corrugated metal. Her lover's screams call out to her again and Sonia cries out in harmony gripping her temples.
I'm coming my love, I will save you, don't give up, she begs silently hoping Lynessa can hear her through their blasphemous psychic bond.
The whistle of the train brings Sonia back to the present and she pushes herself to her feet.
Elias had removed the bridge with a wave of his hand. Said she couldn't save the train, as she was bound by creed to do, and save the woman she loved. Told her she would have to choose.
Love makes you weak Sonia Terra.
You're wrong Elias Dorran. I will save them and then, I will come for you. That is a solemn vow.
Sonia walks down a darkened passenger car. Most of the riders are sleeping but she pulls up her hood in an attempt to hide the markings on her face that might give her away.
She's walked the length of two cars before she sees a patrolman approaching.
She sidesteps into an open seat and sits down waiting for him to pass on to the next car.
"You're a protector aren't you?" comes a female voice from across the aisle.
"I am that which you have named. How can I aid you believer?"
"Please, I need healing."
The woman's hand is hovering in the air covered in the pockmark scars of the wasting illness that has been turning mortals into something inhuman.
Sonia can't afford the strength it would take to help this woman, she has to get them to stop the train without exposing herself and hope that she will be allowed to return to her beloved.
Sonia reaches into her pocket and offers the woman a string of beads.
"Take these to the Oracle in Vohpolis, you will find the help you seek there."
Sonia continues her quest to the engine car. The clock is ticking and she has promises to keep.
510 words
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Dr. L.J. Weeks adjusts his bifocals as he looks over the file one more time. He chances a glance into TS8's holding cell but the subject still shows no sign of improvement. She's huddled in a corner with her knees tucked under her chin. Her lips are moving slightly repeating the same phrase over and over again, the only words she's spoken for days now.
There is a sigh and Weeks looks up into the eyes of his colleague the young Dr. Lydia Idyl.
"I fear her madness is progressing," Idyl says staring wistfully at TS8.
"She was the perfect candidate for the experiment," Weeks says removing his glasses to rub at his right eye.
"So were the last seven. How many will we go through before you admit that it can't be done?"
"We might still be able to isolate the variab-" Weeks is interrupted by a high pitched laugh from TS8's cell.
Idyl moves to the wall and presses the button to turn on the intercom system. Instantly the lab is filled with the frantic whispering of their young test subject. "No. No. No. No comment. No comment. No comment."
"Turn it off," Weeks says tiredly.
Idyl complies and turns her back to the cell.
TS8 laughs, hysterical, and begins rocking slowly, running her hands through her hair and yelling loudly enough now to be heard through the Plexiglas walls of the cell. "No comment! No comment! No comment! No comment!"
"It's time. Give her the sleep serum Lydia, if you would?" Weeks says rising to his feet.
Idyl nods and begins filling a syringe.
Weeks steps up to place a hand on the Plexiglas. TS8 looks straight at him.
"You were by far my favorite TS8."
She smiles broadly and mouths the words no comment.
Exactly 300 words (not including title)
[For Lola, my favorite mad scientist, thanks for never giving up on me]
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We made it to the top 100, so go show some love to the
You're three thousand miles away from where you want to be so you decide to get drunk.
You wander through the back-streets and back-alleys of San Francisco with the bottle in one hand and the stub of a joint clutched between thumb and forefinger of the other.
You circle the blocks not really paying attention to your turns but it would be pretty hard for you to get lost in this city anymore. You know the neighborhoods by the architecture and can navigate by the weather. The sidewalk never ends here.
You're trying to find a story, chasing an idea:
An old woman passes peacefully in her sleep. At the gates of heaven she's greeted by her husband who had gone ahead of her eight years earlier.
"What took you so long?" he asks, leaning against a chrome and black motorcycle.
She's too awestruck to answer but when he calls out to her again using a nickname she always claimed she hated in life she feels herself laugh and is surprised when it doesn't become a shuddering, rattling, rasping through her chest.
She leans on her tip toes to kiss him on the cheek, inhales the scent of pomade slicked through his hair.
"One of these for me?" she asks tapping on the pack of cigarettes rolled up into the sleeve of his white t-shirt.
He tucks his aviators into his pocket and pulls out an engraved silver Zippo holding the flame out cupped between hands.
She blows out the smoke asking, "So where's this boat I've been hearin' about for so many goddamn years?"
His grin lights up his eyes and he swings a leg over the motorcycle kick-starting it to life with a growl.
"This road trip's just getting started. It's still miles until we reach the ocean."
You push yourself up and start walking again, fishing for the Bic in your pocket.
You decide you can't remain objective when recounting the tales of your grandparents who raised you on National Park Stamps and Highway Atlases, gave you a nickname to use over the CB radio, a taste for greasy spoon breakfasts and retro roadside attractions, and the bittersweet curse of wanderlust, that would one day give you the courage to live on your thumb and a prayer.
She was only fourteen when they met in a boarding house and he used to knock on the floor to signal he was home and they should sneak out together. Eventually, there was a shotgun wedding and four more children.
He had a heart attack when he was thirty-six and lived on disability for the rest of his days. He became the neighborhood handyman and an avid fisherman.
They liked to scare you with stories about a woman who gave birth to a monster that still lurked in the Pine Barrens and an eccentric heiress who was so convinced she was haunted that she never stopped adding rooms to her mysterious house in an effort to confuse the spirits.
To you all they ever seemed to do was fight but after he died suddenly and unexpectedly, while patching a hole in their roof, at the ripe old age of seventy-three she was never the same; and you learned that for them "leave me be," meant you're mine forever my darlingand "why don't you take a long walk off a short pier," was I still love you so much my heart might burst from the saying of it.
Three thousand miles away from New Jersey you mourn her death in your own way and hope she knows all the stories you never got to share and stumble drunkenly through through the city of San Francisco thinking that maybe, just maybe, when your grandparents threatened to leave you on the side of the road for the Jersey Devil they were saying: be brave kid, we love you.
675 Words
Dedicated with love to Robert and Mary (who is not a horse)
*You can take the girl out of Jersey but you can never take the Jersey out of the girl*
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To save the people of Earth, The Few must join as one.
The Final City will rise from the ashes of the old world.
All among the few who have survived The Final War and swear allegiance to The Final City will be become a part of the whole and reside in adherence to the Law of Conformity.
This is the Final Great Act of Humanity.
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This Is Only A Test
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It doesn't say Beloved Mother and Grandmother because she'd had it made up ten years ago before the oldest of her beloved stepsons had his children. Six years before she and I were reunited.
I read the stone again and start to slip through time and space as I have done before, existing at all times, feeling all things at once; a vaguely psychic awareness, or maybe just a symptom of a melancholy disposition.
We are here to visit my great grandmother who is interred two spots over. I miss her so much, my grandmother says and I touch her arm gently.
The warm southern winter breeze blows through the low hanging palms.
Some unknowable but surely inevitable future is reaching back to me from a day when I will be standing here and missing both of them.
My grandmother motions again, this time to the grave above her final resting place to tell me that this man never has flowers. They grow up, move away, never make the trip out, she explains.
Again time and space contracts around me. I make a promise to myself to make the journey back to this place when the time comes wherever my tumbleweed life leads.
I take a final look at the stone before we turn to walk back toward the car.
I feel her then, the specter of days yet to be, a thought form who will be born on the day that the blank space is filled in but for a moment I see her clearly, she is holding the hand of a lover; they are just passing through town.
This future incarnation looks younger that I would wish for her to be keeping our vow but then I'm constantly told I look nearly ten years younger then my actual age. I take after my grandmother. She never admits her age but her birth year is engraved in my memory now. I look over at her, dyed red spiky hair and meticulously applied makeup. The woman whose example has saved my life more than she knows.
The car pulls onto the paved road and the early afternoon sun spills over the dashboard. When I catch my own reflection in the passenger side-view mirror I close my eyes until we are back on the highway.
Inspired by the therealljidol break week topic: A possum ran over my grave.
Based on a roadtrip I went on with my grandmother yesterday,
I couldn't resist posting it even though I had decided not to enter the break week challenge.
**reposted becasue I totally acidentally deleted the orginal!
or It's All Just a Matter of Time
if he'll sit this one out,
AN: I guess I have a thing for even numbers so this one is 250 words
Down The Road And Back Again
"I didn't feel like going," I lie at the top of my lungs.
"Are you going to come down? Or do I have to go up there?"
When I don't answer She ties her blue and green flannel shirt around her waist and climbs up settling into the V of a branch next to me. She pulls out the pen that was poking out of her messy bun of dark hair and takes my arm; starts drawing on the back of my hand.
"Did you're mother get the tip I left on her nightstand?" She asks.
"Shut up," I mumble and try to pull my hand away.
"I'm just saying, it rocked my world."
"Stop." I try to interrupt her but She keeps going and I am really tying to pull my hand back now but also laughing and I gasp out. "You're going to make me fall."
She looks up then, directly into my lopsided gaze. "I would never let you fall." She says with a sudden hysterical deadpan and then drops the pen, letting it slip from her fingers to land on the ground.
"Oops," She laughs and swings down after it.
"You should try it," She says.
"No." I say shaking my head. She doesn't pressure me. Never pressures me, never gets angry that I don't always make eye contact and that I am afraid all of the time, and somehow makes me feel like I am cool anyway. We hide our secrets under Lisa Frank stickers and She always convinces me to go home.
"You can't leave yet, you got a part in the school play…you can't miss my birthday…the science fair…the battle of the bands," She says.
Don't leave…not yet. We beg each other.
She doesn't come to school for a week and I drive my bike over to her house. We watch South Park and pet her dog. Her mother makes us bagel bites or maybe spaghetti-ohs.
She's battling her own demons, hiding behind black lipstick, exorcising them in the desecrated dolls hung from the ceiling of her bedroom; spinning on their brightly colored nooses and staring blankly at me with their lifeless shiny eyes through the flickering candlelight as we listen to the new Marilyn Manson album while I write all the words that I like on the toes of my low top converse knockoffs with her red Sharpie. I pretend that if I don't name the monsters out loud, they aren't real.
I hope she forgives me for writing this because despite being born with flawless comedic timing I know how much she really hates being in the spotlight. She's the Hilary to my C.C. and if push came to shove I'd be the Louise to her Thelma but it's the Golden Girls theme song that really tells our story; thank you for being a friend.
Another flash fiction, this one is exactly 750 words (not including title)
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I end up as an eternal castaway. A diaspora of one; a nomadic lone wolf moving through life with all of my material wealth compacted into the space of a single steamer trunk that I grasp onto for dear life while trying to keep my head above water.
Marking the years by the beds/couches/corners I have slept in.
It's a curse, I realized eventually, but the thing about this curse is I never know until it's too late; until it's time to plot a course through the storm.
I wear out my welcome and I mosey on down the road. Riding out on the very bridges they'd built to bring me in on, letting the fires burn infinitely in my wake.
I keep my eyes on the horizon and never look over my shoulder.
I learn I thrive under pressure and find the most peace in the days it comes down to my basic needs for survival. I keep a bug out bag and carry a water bottle wherever I go. Semper paratus*.
It's all the same story and I live it over and over again until I am running out of money and vices.
I send out a distress signal.
I wake to 5am alarm clocks for eight hundred days; commuter busses and packed lunches. It begins to wear me down, like sea glass, dulling the senses. I'm squandering time and my own fullest potential.
I'm homesick for moments spent around campfires with guitars and complete strangers and for a time I burned through notebooks like forest fires; pouring whiskey on the ground. My heart beats a bluegrass ballad for the wind under the wheels and miles of Americana passing me by.
I cry out for mutiny.
* Latin phrase, meaning "Always ready". It is used as the official motto of some organizations, such as the US Coast Guard.
AN: This was my attempt at trying to write "flash fiction" and is exactly 300 words. (Not including the title)
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Just breathe
She whispers it to herself. It's a worry stone, a call to mindfulness.
She flicks ash off her fingertips; blows smoke into the air.
She needs a place to hide; thinks the pain in her shoulder is a pinched nerve.
She is given permission to seek refuge in the beat up beige and blue, faded but still mostly functional, Ford Conquest parked along the side of the sprawling corner lot community where she currently hangs her pointed hat.
She tries to remember to introduce herself by the right alias, making sense of her tumbleweed life: The place where she is Sparrow; the place where she is Rebecca, Becca, Bird, Faerie Ann, Wanderlust.
She flips through her latest notebook searching for inspiration.
She feels unoriginal. She is the metallic creak of the step up into the wood paneled and brown carpeted interior of the decrepit caravan.
She catches her reflection beyond the herons etched into a decorative mirror, runs her fingers through the bright purple spikes that took thirty two years to grow in.
She wishes she took more chances when she was younger.
She's jaded and armed with sharply edged rhetoric but still afraid of the mundane nothingness to which her path could lead.
Who knew it would be the pound sign and not bar codes that would brand us, she speculates as she opens the windows against the oppressive mid day heat.
She's trying not to forget she has wings and not so secretly wishing for rain; resisting the impulse to run away again.
She is the most at peace when she is in motion.
She reminisces about highs and bad trips. The most expensive thing she owns is her pair of hiking boots. She writes tawdry romance novels that she never lets anyone read. Has let countless cups of coffee grow cold at her elbow. Would almost always rather be reading.
She longs for wild Oregon forests, dusty Arizona truck stops, San Francisco rooftops, her best friend's front porch.
She reaches out across the wires and they trade favorite iconic cinematic introductions:
"Thank you Max, for that marvelous introduction."
"How do you do? I / See you've met my / faithful handyman…"
"When I introduce you, and tell them who you are, I don't think anyone will stay for dinner."
She can feel Saturn moving forward again. She has been reborn in the cosmos. She lives in a perpetual state of forgiving and forgetting and not actually giving a fuck.
Surrounded by blood this time she is trapped among palm trees and plastic pink flamingos.
She watches her grandmother conjure bubbling pots of the most delicious food to feed the tribe of lost souls the woman has taken in, and who fill the rooms of the way-station community that have currently sent her into hiding.
There is nowhere for her to write here.
She contemplates the park a few streets over but instead lays down on the flower print pull out couch. The sun slants across her face and she recalls that sensation of waking up covered in sweat as she tries to find a comfortable position for her shoulder.
Just breathe, just breathe, just breath… She whispers to herself.
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I got an email notification thattherealljidolis starting up again! I am so in!
I only ever got to do the "final" season and it legitimately changed my life. It's returned right as I was trying to get back into a regular writing habit so, you know, it's obviously a sign.
Coming back to this journal feels like entering an enchanted dust covered attic, a long disused place that I used to love; a place where my imagination ran free. I felt challenged and motivated and inspired the last time I participated in LJIdol and I'm excited to be a part of it again.
Charles Bukowsi once wrote "If you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it."
I was totally inspired by the prompt for LJ Idol this week so I'm kind of shocked to be hours away from the posting deadline with about three half-finished stories and a strong desire to take a nap (or just hide under the bed).
I had planned to work up until the deadline hoping to manage a suitable entry but my heart's just not in it today. I had a bit of a stressful morning at work and I can't seem to get my writing mojo activated.
I was really enjoying the challenge of LJ Idol and I really don't want to be out of the game yet but since I will be working and camping at the Faerieworlds Art and Music Festival the whole last week of July and will likely be without internet (and I am all out of BYEs) I might as well bow out now.
At this point I was mostly competing against myself to see if I could stay in the game until I left for the festival anyway. When I signed up I never imagined I'd make it this far and I exceeded my own expectations.
I can honestly say this is the first time I have done anything like this. I hardly ever shared my writing before with anyone ever so the feedback I've received during these last few months from friends, family and the LJ Idol community has been unexpected and overwhelmingly encouraging which makes it even harder to admit defeat.
I will Home Game as much as possible, and read and comment, and generally lurk around the LJI community. I truly wish I had found therealljidol before its final season. I don't think I would feel so sad right now if I could just sign up again next time. Maybe I can try to get back in during the second chance thing I've heard about if it happens.
I would like to take a second to thank the great and powerful Sir Gary who is just kind of amazing to take on this much work so that someone like me could have a reason to be writing and a community to share it with.
LJ Idol has made me a better writer, a bolder writer; someone who actually feels like I can call myself a writer (a poet…a wordsmith).
I leave you with a picture of The Poet's Chair on the third floor of The City Lights Bookstore one of my favorite places in San Francisco.
TL;DR This is a sacrificial goodbye post. Thank you for making a noob feel so welcomed and encouraged. Gary/LJI is awesome. Oh my gosh I'm a writer.


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