Reverie
/Echoes of all we've ever …
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…continued his whispering exhortation, “Boredom is a sin against Allah, all of life has beauty and taste . . .
By K. L. Shipley
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Echoes of Assisi
/As my mind drifted…
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Justin is odd. That’s the plain truth of it. I’ve known him since he was born. He was a gentle, kind, daydreamy, sort of …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWishing
/Wishing is a tricky business
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My Mother would often say to some overexpectatius wish of mine, “ If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”. Clearly an expression with years of use. Moreover, an expression of brutal reality. Had I taken it to heart, I might’ve avoided…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Spotless Life of Mr. Potts
/A hollow drum holds…
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… his life was really spotless. It was only that he considered it so. Not that he really considered anything. Michael Potts was impervious to legal niceties, moral turpitude, and common sense. Whatever he did was okay…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreIn the Time Before Time
/Echoes in time..
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…history had barely begun, when ideas were replacing instinct, when grunts were becoming speech, a mysterious people were unknowingly laying the foundation of both western and eastern civilization. Their proto words and beliefs spread across…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreTick, Tick, Tick
/How often does,” Go, Go…
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…sympathies are completely with old Plautus. Yours, too, I imagine. The sun-dial was bad enough. Now we have ever-more refined ways of slicing our days into ever-more itsy-bitsy pieces. We are obsessed by time. We never have enough…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA Reckoning
/Suicide, preceded by three…
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…rounds from a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun took the lives of four souls - Floyd Sanford (shot twice), Bessie Lee Sanford, and Rosalie Sanford. Each died from close-range blasts that splattered blood, flesh and bone. The fifth shot was delivered to the chest of the murderer …
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Mindlessness Of AI
/“I have an idea, let’s …
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Vat, now I must argue with my toaster about my toast shud be lighter or darker?
…whole life everybody tellin’ me vat to do. Now my toaster tells me vat my toast shud be! No, no, no. I throw that blabbermouth in der trasch and toast my bread over the fire. The fire don’t talk back to…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThoughtless
/Virtue almost demands …
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…word with implicit implication. Careless people are thoughtless. Selfish people are thoughtless. People who don't give a damn about other people are…
By K.L. Shipley
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