Ceremony By: Robert Thompson So there I am, sitting in one of those wooden church pews, you know, the kind that’s stiff and impossible to sit in comfortably. I’m sitting there, not feeling time, not feeling my body, feeling only the pain of the moment, and the weightlessness that accompanies a high. I toked...
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Flight By: Robert Thompson I was nine at the time. The memory still interrupts my dreams from time to time, and nowadays, it occupies even my waking thoughts. My grandfather, a great man, was lying withered in a hospital bed, hooked up to all kinds of tubes and machines, most of which I didn’t...
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Static By: Robert Thompson When you’re stuck in a wheelchair this long, you believe whatever anyone tells you. Part of this is naïve optimism, part of it’s because you don’t want to be a burden, and part of it’s just because you wish it was true, no matter how unlikely. Tweet This Post
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So close. I woke up with good intentions today. I got my hair looking nice (no shave though) and brought in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to read during downtime. I got settled in and was almost done going through my emails, buzz, and reader when all of a sudden nintendo8 shows...
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We’re all you total dark over- the porch with a cig in my hand: the rain pattering my hood a plane roaring overhead the thought of you in my bed like Buddha made sense again and my feet on the deck reminded me by losing me floating in my head with everything going on...
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Google, authors and publishers Nov. 13 narrowed the scope of their agreement to let Google sell access to millions of out-of-print books online, limiting it to include works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the U.K., Australia, or Canada………Watch Interesting Video Here Tweet This Post
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Lost in the cigs, chafing, years add up. - No matter. The pants still fit. Shirt slightly spoiled, new shoes though. - It’s deserved, and I of course never leave it. . . . Ryan Le’Roy Shellenberger Tweet This Post
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Google Inc. is now launching a new online service that will let readers buy electronic versions of books and read them on such gadgets as cell phones, laptops and possibly e-book devices. Check out some more here Click Me Tweet This Post
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Barnes & Noble is coming out with an eReader to challenge the Amazon Kindle. Images have now been leaked out. Check out a small blurb about it here Tweet This Post
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Philadelphia author Kerry L. Marzock’s second novel, Raven’s Rage, Order Of The Claw is available starting Today, October 13th. You can order her novel from soulasylumpoetry.com. Get this awesome horror novel just in time for Halloween! For more information on Kerry, check out an awesome interview here at roysrants.wordpress.com Tweet This Post
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