The ambulance rolled the stretcher in, but the patient was already gone.An attendant wrapped a barcoded band on the guy's wrist, and a doctor tapped NEW PATIENT on his pad before tapping the red icon.Ten hours later, the pathologist looked over the body

I'm not impressed with a lot of forms of pride.Especially when it's pride in an attribute and not an accomplishment.In the end, most "pride" is about genital attributes.Their color, their size.Where your ancestors' genitals came from.Or if you've had

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The cyclone hit around midnight.Winds. Lightning. Tornadoes.Floods and fires.A storm surge rolled across the city, smashing buildings and dragging debris out to sea.Thousands died, thousands more missing and presumed dead.Hospitals filled up, the blo

They say that Edwin Block didn't write any of his stories, and that's true, to a degree.Edwin would sit at the bar and ramble for hours about things, and Martin the Barkeep wrote everything down he heard.He couldn't keep up, so he got a tape recorder, h

There are ten villages in the Storytellers' Circuit, one Storyteller for each.At the end of the year, they load up their wagons and head to the next village.That way, their stories don't become old, and they learn new tales from each village they visit.

Lonnie wrote books, and they were a modest success.The movies adapted from them were a bigger success than his books.Box office, awardsThey paid well, but it bothered Lonnie that people preferred to watch others interpretations of his stories than his

Gymnastics is a nasty, ugly sport.So many injuries, so many child molesters among the trainers and coaches.And yet, mothers allow their daughters to participate in this body and psyche wrecking sport.All for what? Trophies? Medals? Ribbons?A documenta

I'm not close to my family.I don't even think of them as my family or family anymore.They're just people.So, every now and then, I get word somehow that something happens.A wedding. A baby. A hospital stay. A funeral.And then they ask "How are you?"

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