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Issue 2, Vol. 2 – June 23, 2022
Welcome back, and we hope to find you well on this fine summer day, dear readers! It’s week two and we’ve got a new principle just for you. Enjoy the serials and we’ll see you back here next week! : : : Parallel Principle #2 : With new people come new experiences and you should…
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Hummingbird (Anomalie, Bad Snacks) – Shuffle – Playlist 2
When the spring comes, Nico looks forward to the flowers blooming and the spread of green on the landscape. He isn’t a fan of the allergies that turn his eyes bloodshot, itches the soft tissue of his face, and causes him to sneeze uncontrollably, but it’s worth it for the change from the cold death…
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The Black Man Who Was Thursday 1. … vs The Woke Brigade
Since meeting with the man who was called Sunday, Azalaan insisted on the use of his formal name. He refused to answer questions about his moniker, and when anyone insisted, he would end the conversation completely. He needed everyone to know who he really was, that he was no longer a mere mortal but the…
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Issue 1, Vol. 2 – June 16, 2022
Hello and welcome to the Parallel Serials 13-week course on human relations. Do you want a better life for yourself and your loved ones? Are you feeling stalled in a life that doesn’t make you happy? Well, you’ve come to the right place, dear readers. Over the next four months, you will meet people, and…
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April 28, 2022
That’s a wrap, dear readers. We hope you enjoyed the Interim Shorts, and we hope you’ll join us on PRL Day 2022 for Volume 2. It should be an interesting Volume, for sure. You don’t want to miss The Black Man Who was Thursday, or the continuation of the Shuffle Playlist 2, and we’ve got…
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Shuffle – Playlist 2 – 4 – Trip the Light Fantastic (Greta Van Fleet)
The year is 2186, and the sky is always dark. There is evidence of a sun behind the haze that moves through the atmosphere. From the ground, the sky is always moving, noxious clouds of green, yellow, and brown that occasionally rain down acids or heavy metals that damage plant material and erode structures made…
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Shuffle – Playlist 2 – 1 – Seventeen (Jet)
Enoch smiled with his whole face from the pulpit at the front of the church. He was seventeen years old and his father had summoned him from one of the two ornate, wooden chairs he occupied just behind the pulpit so that he could give his first Sunday sermon. He had prepared a twenty-five minute…
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April 3, 2022
Hello again, dear readers. It’s a sad time, the Interim Shorts period is almost over. But don’t fret, we still have the April series coming at you soon, or soon enough, and it’s a PRL favorite. Get ready for the return of the Shuffle Anthology with an all new playlist for 2022! I’m excited, I…
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Heart of Blackness – Epilogue – Come Sunday
Everyone around the table was stunned by the account of Marlo’s encounter with the man she presumed to have been Kurt Graham. It was hard to believe any of it, but Marlo had too much credibility. “Unchecked charisma, especially that belonging to a man with wounded pride, is a danger to everything and everyone,” Marlo…
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Heart of Blackness – 3 –
“I use the word idiotic in the chaotic sense that Leeland likes to write about. The Idiot Report, that’s such a good title for your column. It’s deceptive, right? It’s meant to disarm your readers, I imagine, the self-deprecating joke, and it’s instantly proven ironic once you start reading. But it’s code isn’t it? It’s…