No Middle Name's Favorites
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Isolation [I'm in the Mode for Love Challenge]
by THX 0477 10 months ago
“It is time,” she says. Her inflection is for a question, but it’s a statement.
“I’ll help you power down,” I say, my voice …
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Language Wars at the Ravens Gate Pool
by Randal L. Schwartz about 1 year ago
We knew it had to come to this, eventually.
The Ruby on Rails gang had moved in first, fueled and aided by the bloggers wh…
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Believing and seeing
by Mycroft about 1 year ago
Some people wear tinfoil helmets and keep away from windows. Some analyse photos endlessly. Some make constant requests for u…
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The Last Roughneck Starts Fresh
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Back in Alaska, my crew had quite a collection of adventure stories to tell, most of them revolving around me. I was somethin…
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The Last Roughneck Makes a First Impression
by uselessness about 1 year ago
“Have you ever worked a wind harvesting operation before, Stanton?”
“No sir. 25 years on a rig off the North Slope, Alaska.”...
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The Last Roughneck Enters the Storm
by uselessness about 1 year ago
We’ll be descending to the power station in a glorified cable car, an insulated pod riding on carbon nanotubes. It’s a rectan…
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The Last Roughneck's Welcome
by uselessness about 1 year ago
I can hear the storm raging outside but it sounds more distant now, muffled. Have we arrived? Surely we’re not in the station…
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Writing in the Digital Age
by uselessness about 1 year ago
1,025 characters.
1,025 characters!
What am I to do?
Let’s… revise.
Aha, it says “large.” Well that’s extraneous. Backs…
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What's a nice kid like you doing in a mess like this?
by The Dod about 1 year ago
Way back when humans used to sail the seas and bitch about it, they used to have a ridiculously large hall called mess hall...
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Hi, I'm From the Internet
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
“So where are you from?”
“Oh, the internet.”
“Really? Which part?”
“Oh lots of places. I’ve been around since the beginnin…
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Yoda Addresses The Gathering At Gettysburg
by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, hmm, sought a galaxy, our fathers did, yes. Conceived in Liberty, it was. D…
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It's All Intramental
by Fyora Cartagan about 1 year ago
I walked into the therapist’s office and looked around. The place looked like Puff the Magic Dragon had eaten the teletubbies…
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The Endless Corridor
by Stovohobo about 1 year ago
They didn’t call it the Endless Corridor for nothing. It really was endless, stretching off into infinity. In fact, it’s st…
