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The Golem 2. Crone
The forest was Sarah’s entire world. Nothing existed beyond the furthest reaches of the woods’ edges because everyone in the forest told the same story, that their world owed it’s existence to a creator who blanketed the entire habitable world in a lush forest, even through the bodies of water that sometimes stretched as far…
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The Golem 1.
Sarah lived alone in a dark forest. The forest was beautiful in the light; the bushy tree tops blurred into a green mass with patches that let pure rays of light fall through as columns at varying degrees depending on the position of the sun. In the light, Sarah could see the immense height of…
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Superman Lover Part 4
No No No, by Ghostface Killah Valeria made breakfast the next day because she was up before either me or my Uncle Thomas. The smells of the pancakes and bacon and eggs woke me up, and when I went down, Uncle Thomas was already at the table while Valeria served him. “I hope you like…
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Superman Lover Part 3
Paragraphs of Love, by Ghostface Killah We got enough food for the week and Uncle Thomas filled the table the first three days with more food than we could eat, but the three of us sat around the table for hours sharing stories and laughing. We hardly left the house and my uncle filled it…
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Made in America – Issue 7 – The Universal Translator One-Shot
Dr. Thomas Eakran does not like visitors to his basement level office at the Institute for Brain Function, also known as the IBF. He mostly finds the other doctors at the institute annoying and undeserving of the title of doctor, and the administrator that he answers to is a tight lipped CIA agent who always…
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Superman Lover Part 2
Walking Through the Darkness, by Ghostface Killah Months later I was moving to Asheville to live with Valeria. There was an adjustment period, the cabin-style house Valeria rented was relatively remote; everything important like grocery stores and gas stations were about twenty minutes away by car. We lived close to Valeria’s job and I made…
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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…