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Part 7 of 12: The Child Exploitation Issue – V.I.V. is Real
Tracking down a specific issue of TAOT is difficult. There are no archives and there is no website to access. The issue about the incident at Kid Zone was a tangent that I was willing to take because I wanted to know how trustworthy Mr. Baucom really was. Of course he would defend his program…
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Part 8 of 12: Mountain Trip – V.I.V. is Real
I honestly jumped at the opportunity to take a trip to the mountains. I found out via the school’s website that Charles Tibbet was an assistant track coach at my alma mater. I hadn’t been to the school in a while, and my girlfriend refused to make the trip with me. “Every time we go…
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Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger – Issue 13 – The Bronx Avenger Meets the Old Man
Previously on Old Man Young… There is a lot going on in the city of Knoxville, TN. Lately, the uptick in crime in the city has been upsetting the natural order. Normally, a murder has built-in leads depending on the location of the murder; ie, if a body is found in the bad parts of…
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Silas in Hell Issue 7. Some Saints Go to Hell (continued)
The tentacled beast from the abyss is unsettling to Silas to say the very least. Throughout his day, he remembers the feeling of tentacles shoving into the orifices of his face, the pressure and the widening, like his nostrils would split at any second. He felt violated and it was not easy to shake. There…
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Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger – Issue 12 – When I First Killed a Man, Flashback
Previously on Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger When a man accepts a life of crime as his life’s work, he is accepting the grim reality that he may one day have to take a life. Some men do so with little reservation; the idea of killing someone is not particularly troubling to every…
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Silas in Hell Issue 6. Some Saints Go to Hell
Silas is convinced of his soul’s journey to hell during sleep, but he doesn’t know what to do about it. Knowing the truth and changing it are very different things. So Silas has decided to lean into it. He doesn’t sleep in the same bed with his wife anymore; there was an incident where he…
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Part 6 of 12: Westside Story – V.I.V. is Real
“They were printing TAOT there?” I asked Deborah. “I saw them. There was a big stack of the pages, before they were stapled together. It was the issue about pollution in the local streams.” “Could it have been one of the teachers or instructors or whatever?” I asked. “Only the owners were there that evening.…
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Silas in Hell Issue 5. The Coming Beast (Prelude to Illuminatos continuation)
Hello, I am Silas. The simple man who is made of money. The man who shook off the dust of his past to make something of himself and was determined to make a life that I had glimpsed in magazines. I am a black man, let me get that out of the way. I say…
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Part 5 of 12: Edwards Library – V.I.V. is Real
I won’t say that I dislike Edwards library, which is located on the east side and is the unofficial marker of the transition from populated east Ladoga to sparsely populated east Ladoga. I will say that nowadays I opt for the public library in west Ladoga because I think that they have the type of…
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Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger – Issue 9 – Fire and Reign
Previously on Old Man Young and the Bronx Avenger, In Knoxville, TN Fire is a family man and his family has lived for many years in a nice house with a high gate all around the perimeter of the property. His money is laundered through several small businesses and his wife and kids have no…