Can you hear the mortars? They're silent again.After the bodies were piled into trucks and hauled off, we brought the stretchers to the creek.Washing the blood and guts off of the canvas, getting them cleaned up for the next wave to come in.We'd wash o

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A government survey found a dozen indigenous tribes living in the rainforest we'd marked for farming development.It doesn't take much of a bribe to get the numbers and GPS coordinates.The army doesn't patrol out here, so it's easy to fly in one of our o

Fifteen minutes with an epsom salt warm compress, the bump on my cheek comes to a head."Wash your hands again and squeeze it gently," says the virtual nurse.Yellow and white flow down my cheek, and I wash it out with deionized water and squeeze again un

Working from home and walking to stores, I don't drive my car much.After three and a half years, less than ten thousand miles.As little as I drive, I still ran over a nail and had to get a new tire.I figured I might as well buy 4 new tires, but the sto

It's National Lemon Day.I go through a bag of lemons a week.They help prevent kidney stones.Well, the standard ones.The uric acid ones, you also need to do potassium, keep your pH in check, and avoid foods with purine, and so on.Every morning, I put

The Flugelheimer Circus Train took the curve too fast and went off the rails outside of Morgantown.Right out by the ravine, half the cars rolling down the hill into the rocks.The others like scattered crushed boxes, spilling out broken animals and peopl

I work with a charity that builds schools in poor neighborhoods.Neighborhoods with run-down schools, not enough skilled teachers, old textbooks, and few after-school activities to keep kids out of gangs.We get a lot of grant money and celebrity support.

LisaLizzie RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZThe next topic is ValuesLISABroken DreamsThe sound of a siren wakes us. Its close and feels as if its above us. We scrabble together, unsure what to do, should we

Lucy was an old Series Seven.She did good work at the droid shop, and a vintage bot demonstrated to customers a bit of class, as opposed to the new Series Tens in the warehouse.But she had a hard time holding a charge, and those Series Sevens had an int