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Morgen Bailey returns with some invaluable advice about writing and writing essentials. Welcome back, Morgen. Your posts are always captiva...
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A book accepted by Mockingbird Lane Press Oh, yes, lol, when I got home on Saturday night I found an email from Regina at Mockingbird...
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Use your Memorial Day holiday to ponder on this, kids. Do YOU make decisions, think, act? Or is it...doo doo doo doo...the ZOMBIE WITHIN ? ...
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A bee or wasp sting can be fatal to someone who's allergic to it. When I was a child I was stung by honeybees but my mother put a paste ...
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Morgen Bailey biography Based in Northamptonshire, England, Morgen Bailey (“Morgen with an E”) is a prolific blogger, podcaste...
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To use or not to use the Oxford comma (serial comma)? It depends. In Canada, don't use it. In the USA, use it. But it's not that s...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013
APOCALYPSE
"I want you both to know I love you very much."
The man sat hunched beside his sister and mother, with the news of the terminal
illness which would take his life within a few weeks.
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Somewhere in the darkness his father waited, dead for 41 years, long and difficult years for Steve without a father.
Difficult years for the growing boy, whose mother in the past was an alcoholic and
mentally ill, and whose stepfather abused him emotionally and physically. Happiness
eventually trickled up from high school friends, work friends, school, work, play, and
family. He loved to sit in his boxers after work and be a geek. He loved
robots, video games, expert tunes on his guitar, computers, and reading.
The robot was a kindly automaton, patient as death for the crossover
between worlds. Its eyes glowed in the black outside the open curtains where
Steve lay in pain, the cancer snaking throughout his entire body from the
original source.
"We were made for each other," the robot said, and spread its arms. Steve stepped into the void between them, which was kindlier than the world, full of stars and darkness—he took a breath then did not take another one, and was gone.
"We were made for each other," the robot said, and spread its arms. Steve stepped into the void between them, which was kindlier than the world, full of stars and darkness—he took a breath then did not take another one, and was gone.
His sister had waited for the last day of summer. He
had waited, too. The night closed on a light snuffed out and a little bit of love
gone from the world.
***September 21, 2012***
"Take it to the Limit" - The Eagles1976
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Our loved ones are with us for too short a time. What good would hope be if it didn't include being with them again?
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