Dangerous Love
/…lost in the mind is as dangerous as losing your way in a desert without boundaries. Rich with possibilities only found at great risk, the desert of love is treacherous with far flung…
By Buckspinster
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Larger Than Life
/Psychedelics produce….
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…a very tiny piece of paper”. “Yeah, but It’ll do the job”. “Alright, Jimmy, You never set me wrong, yet”. Jeff places the tiny bit of paper on his tongue and swallows. Jimmy hands him a…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAmbiguous Reality
/We live our everyday lives…
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…does it happen that two persons of equal intelligence, rationality, and good will can come to equally opposite interpretations of the very same set of facts? It is something that has puzzled me for…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreCourage To Fall
/…hit with a painful thud, swiftly followed by a crack as my head bounced off the hardwood floor. A thrumming throb began to grow in my left ear, as a nob swelled on the same side of my…
By Fay L. Loomis
Read MoreLaying-Up Treasure
/…childhood haunt where I’d buried treasure long, long ago. I found nothing. The landmarks I remembered were no longer there. It was the right piece of land, but no shrub…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIshmael And Isaac
/The modern world is convinced…
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…of one father and two mothers. The ages-long struggle between them began at their birth and has never ceased. Hagar was the mother of the first born, Ishmael. Sarah was the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreGoodbye, Rosalynn...
/A memory of meeting…
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…I can smell things frying: corndogs, doughnuts, turkey wings, and any number of other members of several food groups. The first tingles of the coming winter and blowing dust…
By Russell Willis
Read MoreDeath Becomes Us All
/I live content with…
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…remarkable how reliably our standing-in-life improves upon being buried. Scoundrels become saints. Misers become prudent. Nasty characters of all sorts become decent…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreClosing Time
/Health concerns…
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…things are as inevitable as closing time. Lives, films, Empires, and everything else comes to an end. "Last call for alcohol" is the classic example. Boasts, clever talk, and hopeful lusts…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHealthy, Wealthy...
/Health is as much a…
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…words are known to most of us as a single line from a truism made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his popular…
By K. L. Shipley
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