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by mettle fatigue
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on Thu May 09, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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And here we are, finally at the end of our adventure. Strephon, the retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, has descended into the depths of the earth beneath the City of Redemption and battled the ancient being and part-time newspaper publisher...
by quarkstomper
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:41 PM PDT
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I had hoped I would have the final chapter of Dark Redemption finished this evening, but I’m still working on it. For those who have been following my story, I will post the chapter later tonight if I can. If not, I will either post it later this week,...
by quarkstomper
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 05:32 PM PDT
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 05:07 PM PDT
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
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4.5 of 5 stars
Same Bed Different ...
by pwoodford
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Snoring harshly, the dragon twitched in its sleep now and then, as if striving through bad dreams for a less miserable position on the gold coins, jewelry, gems, and bones layering the cavern floor. Two dozen paces off, at the turning of the...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 07:15 PM PDT
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 05:46 PM PST
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3.5 of 5 stars
System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries #7)
by Martha ...
by pwoodford
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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For many years, I have sought a break from the pain of politics and taken refuge inside of fiction. When this wasn’t enough, I began creating my own. For your Halloween moods…. This is an excerpt from my unpublished short story work (copywrited). “A...
by MorganMidlothian
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:28 PM PDT
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“You know you’re the only one of us who can do this.” Gerald Holloway, the chief of the prehistoric archaeological team, was speaking. Grace Ling nodded. She was barely five feet tall, had ...
by Diana in NoVa
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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4 of 5 stars
Bridge
by Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes' novels are radically different from one another, ...
by pwoodford
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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I’d just finished putting up this sign when I saw a little kid walk onto the far side of the overpass. It looked like a boy, maybe nine, with nobody else around. I thought “Something’s wrong...” the way one normally would seeing a little kid by himself...
by freewayblogger
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 08:27 AM PDT
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As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world, you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury Our ideas for fiction come to us from our own experiences, but never...
by strawbale
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on Thu Dec 28, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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To this reader, the best writing competition, bar none, is the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest...for an opening sentence so bad it’s funny.
Our whimsical literary competition honors Sir ...
by Youffraita
165 comments
on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 03:30 AM PDT
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���� I first posted this lovely story some years ago, as an adaptation from public domain sources including a 1950s version by my father. Title transliterated from Yiddish [thank you, word is bond!],
by mettle fatigue
38 comments
on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 03:30 PM PDT
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In my first piece on author-gpt, I noted that the app was basically unusable because at the time, GPT-3.5 was in general use and only a few people, including Matt Shumer the app author, had access to GPT-4. Very briefly, this app uses a lot of tokens...
by Adventurist
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on Fri Aug 11, 2023 at 05:16 PM PDT
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I have been addicted to books since around the fifth grade
You can read the longish introduction to the series in either
Let’s Talk BOOKS 2023-04-02 Genre: Romance
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by Angela Marx
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on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Paul’s Music A fairy tale yet to happen on the Isle of Skye “Probably spam,” Paul thought, reading his messages in his flat in Glasgow, and he almost deleted the email, but he remembered in time that spam wasn’t likely to have his name in the header....
by Aashirs nani
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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This is my fourth novel — and my first political satire. It exposes the insanity, bigotry, xenophobia, and most of all, the grift, at the heart of the MAGA phenomenon. It’s also hilariously funny (if I may say so as the author)! It’s called CULTURAL...
by acrawf2
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 03:56 PM PDT
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