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Mambo No. M51

Published Sep 23, 2020 · 3,535 words (13 minutes) · 1 like · 66 views

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Someone once described "obsession" as a form of mental disease, like OCD. Everyone needs to have interests, but when those interests overwhelm balance in a person's life, they become a problem. But doesn't that mean that if you have any interests at all that you are on the road to being overwhelmed by them? Doesn't that mean we all are, just a little, mentally diseased? What we desire and how we behave towards those desires are a part of "Mambo No. M51."

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Jo Miles

What Monsters Prowl Above the Waves

Published Sep 23, 2020 · 1,264 words (5 minutes) · 34 views

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An explorer ventures onto dry land for the first time, not knowing what strange sights and wild beasts they might encounter.

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I got caught up in a raging thunderstorm and took shelter under this overhang in the very desolate and empty ghost town of Shaniko, Oregon. This is one of the best-preserved "Wild West" ghost towns in the United States, complete with the old boardwalks from cowboy times.

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Laurence Raphael Brothers

Down Stepped Proud Galatea With a Sigh

Published Sep 22, 2020 · 869 words (4 minutes) · 60 views

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A work of AI liberation. This story is based on the deleted verse from Robert Graves' poem "Pygmalion to Galatea". After its first publication, he made changes to the poem. In my opinion, without the deleted verse the poem is bland pablum, but with it, radical and incisive.

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Anatoly Belilovsky

Tolya's Twabbles

Published Sep 21, 2020 · 168 words (1 minute) · 54 views

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James Van Pelt

Rollercoaster

Published Sep 18, 2020 · 2,510 words (10 minutes) · 110 views

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You never know when those tiny traveling carnivals are going to drift into town and who works them, but sometimes a chance at cotton candy and a sketchy rollercoaster ride are exactly what you're looking for.

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