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Made in America – Issue 6 – Tales from the Universal Translator: Brolic and Colic/Royal Jeffrey and Queen Caroline the Terrible One-Shot
Brolic and Colic Colic is a fussy guy. He is sixteen and he spends most of his time keeping his home free of litter that rolls down the hill where cars zip by on a road that leads out to the beach. Colic lives near a stream in overgrown hills in a place scarcely populated…
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Superman Lover Part 1
How You Like Me Baby, by Ghostface Killah I’ll start at the beginning. Valeria and I met years ago because my Uncle Thomas and her father Hugo worked at the same restaurant in Brooklyn, NY. When my first wife and I moved to DC, Valeria was already living there working for the Smithsonian. Maybe it…
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Superman Lover Intro
My Uncle Thomas was in Asheville the first week that I moved there to live with Valeria in 2011. It was good to see him, I hadn’t seen him in a very long time, and he cooked dinner for us every night that he stayed with us. It was amazing food too, southern staples that…
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The Origins of Magic Part 3 of 3
The inside of the Hall for Druinte Cognitive Disorders (a rough translation of the facility that Belfrat operates) is very sparsely decorated, which isn’t strange for any of the many halls of science on Druont, though it is noticeably sparsely populated by scientists. The DCD is located in a small rectangular building adjacent to the…
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Made in America – Issue 5 – Wendy, the IBF Receptionist One Shot Part 2
Maria trashes her phone and goes inside of a Walmart to buy another for cheap. Maria doesn’t trust the CIA or the NSA, any government organization really, not since it came to light that they were listening to average people like soap operas. The last thing she wanted was for some government drone to find…
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The Origins of Magic Part 2 of 3
The technologies of this alien race, that is an unfathomable distance from the Earth, make them appear to be capable of bending reality to beings on other planets, even to the most advanced populations in the universe. It is a society of beings that is not completely dissimilar to societies of people on Earth, but…
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Made in America – Issue 4 – Wendy, the IBF Receptionist One Shot Part 1
The view from the front desk is excellent for people watchers. The Institute for Brain Function, a little know lab and research center in rural GA, is a fairly busy building with three floors of mostly scientists, and some patients, a few lab rats, and Wendy, who is the receptionist who sits at the front…
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Let the Beat Build Part 4: Permanence
All of that preamble leads me to the most important reason that music matters so much to me. Permanence. In a fickle world where things are constantly changing, music seems to be a constant. Even though genres may evolve with each new generation, the old stuff still exists unadulterated, in the same form from its…
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Made in America – Issue 3 – Eakran and the Interstellar Panel One-Shot
This is a transcript of an Interstellar Panel meeting that took place about 100 Earth years ago. Only one member of the Panel is named in the original recording that produced the transcript (it has been roughly translated here into the Earth language known as English): [“Earth is sentient, that alone is enough to warrant…
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Let the Beat Build Part 3: Instruction
I have said it many times before, and I don’t mind saying it again, I love and respect my uncle Thomas. His aesthetic more than anyone else’s has had the greatest impact on my own sensibilities, though I must admit ignorance when it comes to his favorite musical genre, jazz. He will spend an evening…