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Come Close – Dribble (Anomale) Part 2 of 4
2. Toxic Love (Your Old Droog) “Who Uncle Thomas fucking?” my brother, Cedric David Livingston, asked, obviously drunk, and he laughed at himself. “I bet it’s a bad bitch with all the money you got.” “Shut up, Ced,” I said quickly, “you wouldn’t know a bad bitch if you got her pregnant and she had…
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Sun of the Morning – L’homme A La Moto (Edith Pilaf) Part 1 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z Afonso stole the motorcycle that he rode into Ladoga, North Carolina in the early 1950s. He cruised into the Bottoms with a leather jacket, black bomber helmet, and dark shades, and everyone on the street watched him with wonder, like he was a visiting…
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Come Close – Dribble (Anomale) Part 1 of 4
1. Personal (Otis McDonald, Mani Draper) “I met someone,” my uncle, Thomas Livingston, said smiling. We were in Ladoga of all places, in the backyard of my grandfather’s house. The men of my family; including my brother, my father, uncle Thomas, my aunt’s husband, and my grandfather; had met to discuss the meat situation for…
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Shuffle – Playlist 2 – 3 – I Hate U (SZA)
The world is black before the light show. The world comes alive with colors and movement, and soon the black is a spacescape with spaceships zooming into the foreground. They look real, or realistic, Solana has no idea what a real spaceship looks like, but she would imagine they would look something like the ones…
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The Needy – 5 – Partners in Devastation
The Needy seaps the seams of the planet. He is all around, ubiquitous in the present day, always looking for permission to move in and claim a victim who has given up on life. His inky, black form has expanded, and during the recent Ill Nights, he has only been bolstered; there was much despair…
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The Needy – 4 – A Dark Emergence
Jit’s body was blasted back into the lake by the force of the explosion. He was hit so hard that he burrowed through the sand, then through the water where his body collided with rock and cracked the lake floor. Molten lava that was black on cooling issued from the cracks and wrapped Jit completely…
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The Needy – 3 – The Birth of the Lightning God
The light of first creation is a powerful source of energy used to fuel some magical abilities that exist in the universe. This is a neutral source of energy, meaning it was not created by the AEther for the propagation of life in the universe, nor was it created by Past in its attempts to…
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The Needy – 2 – Origin Story
When the planet Earth was much younger, still newly protected by the neighborhood of the Sun system to which it belongs – that discouraged destruction from asteroids and gave the planet just the right amount of heat – giants roamed the land that was a conglomerate of all the continents that currently exist on the…
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The Needy – 1 – His Mission
The world is a despicable place. The cosmos is a garbage dump and everything inside is the refuse of more splendid forms responsible for a vaulted and unimaginably glorious existence that is incomprehensible to the life inside the dump. There is a glorious existence that you will never know, that you can never attain because…
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Remarkable – Issue 10 – The Gangs All Here
“I have finally returned to this plane,” the giant said, inspecting his body and surroundings. “I require food to sustain this form and you will do nicely.” He lifted one of his giant hands that from Issac’s perspective moved in slow motion and tried to pluck the man out of the sky, but Issac was…