Stories posted 3/20/2008
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Moving on

I held her close while she cried. Even while crying she looked adorable. I turned her face towards me, and looked into her e…
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Honor and Significance in Hindsight
James: To stem the tide of negative sentiment I offer only kind words and consolation to those lost. I forgive you, the young…
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Notes of the Past and Present (Part 1)
I used to come home from school and watch the ceiling. I had nothing else to do… The main reason being that I had no friend…
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Notes of the Past and Present (Part 2)

The other homerooms, I believe, didn’t discuss very deeply the message given by Mr. Brown, but my homeroom, well we talked. W…
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Never Look In The Dark
“There’s something you should see.” If are love is as strong as it is then you can understand what I have to show you.
“You …
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Love's Crime

Sleep covered her body, but she opened her eyes, no longer able to keep them closed. The Sun was dripping in through the wind…
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Soka. Tapin. Yu. L'tal. Gural.
“Are you ready?” she asked me.
My first lesson in meditation. “Yes. I’m ready.”
“Okay,” she told me. “First, sit on your ma…
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wahaha.....Geheim Sir Ayita Rap!!

Whats my name?
Sir!
Whats my name?
Sir
What’s my name baby
Sir!
Oh dam right…
the names geheim
im liking this cream…
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The Choice
“No way, man.” Jimmy was furious. How could they even think of asking him to do this?! “That is not going to happen!”
“J…
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Falling Out (I)
“Will. Will!” I ran to catch up. “Dammit, Will, what the hell’s your problem tonight?”
He looked at me like I’d just grown a…
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Watch For Falling Books (II)

I walked down the hall. Halfway back to my apartment, I could hear Robert and Jaime. Jaime was laughing as Robert make fun of…
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Jaime - Super Woman (III)

I never even saw it coming. I had been taking karate since elementary school, and I was pretty good. Robert, for someone who …
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Apologies All Around (IV)

Twenty minutes later (about fifteen minutes after Rob got to his car and engaged in some rather creative cursing), I got up o…
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One Week Later

As he walked towards the door, Seb wondered how many people had gone to a funeral parlour knowing they were neither attending…
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Life Is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans (V)

“Yeah, well, I did see it, and I will pay big money.” The more I thought about it, the more I regretted throwing Robert’s…
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Nighttime
Head back, I stare into the cloudy dark sky.The moon peeps a shadowy glow through the haze from time to time, like a returnin…
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Nighttime 2
So I sit here writing, alone on this peak, while I should be sleeping, because I can’t quite face my dreams yet.I can’t yet s…
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The Room (VI)

When I woke up, it was daylight. I opened my eyes, and noticed something very wrong with my apartment.
Namely the fact that …
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Castus (VII)

Jaime was an artist. A pretty damned good one, if you asked me. But what did I know about art? I can’t even draw stick people…
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Delisu Adrovan, 4th Wizard (VIII)

Delisu Adrovan, 4th Wizard, Master of the Golden Tower, Spellkeeper for King Hani of the Southern Vale, stode into the room w…
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Harsh Mistress
Kim typed exactly what she was thinking, “I’m about to freak out.”
The boy an entire city away, seeing this statement, told …
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The Blue Jay

Jeremy awoke early the next morning to the sound of a bird tapping on his little window. He opened it up, and the bird happil…
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A Moment's Silence

“Just hanging out”? Seb wanted to take off his shoe and beat himself to death with it. He was certainly in the right place to…
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The First Night

As he got into bed, he thought about where Jay would sleep. He quick got some branches off of the tree next to his house, and…
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The Difference Between Zombies

Did you know that to kill a zombie for good, you have to chant and offer up the proper rituals? That’s not easy to do when on…
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Flashing Lights 3

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Flashing Lights 3

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Dream A Little Dream (IX)

“Okay, look,” I said. “I know what this is. The role-play session didn’t go well last night. I fell asleep, and this is all a…
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A Subtle Shift

Sgt. Rollins continued, “Isn’t that right, Terry?”
The name didn’t bring a flood of memories, but it did give him an idea. _…
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I hate you
I hate you
If you’re going to talk behind my back
I don’t care
If you’re going to talk say it to my face
I don’t care
I hate… -
Bad Timing on Big Decisions

Life and death swirled before and within my mind, pulling me along every eddy and wave. So this is insanity, I thought with w…
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Who Had?/ Praise? (couldn't decide again!)

My eyes were closed as I prepared to touch the magic I needed. Magic without a spellbook was harder because when you usually …
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Zombie Types [Stovo's Zombie Challenge]

Did you know that to kill a zombie for good, you have to chant and offer up the proper rituals? That’s not easy to do when on…
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The Insane Knight: Answers

“Would you mind removing your pretend weapon from my neck?” Ted asked.
“Okay,” the Knight said, “But don’t try that staring …
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Tell Me!!!

“Where do I know you from?!” I loudly asked.
“You will never find out.” Colleen sneered.
“Why!?”“Because.”
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Clipping Challenge

Yup, that’s right. This is a challenge for people to take this clipping and make it into a story.
*...when angels fall to ea…
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Locked Away
“Is it a live father?”
“yes,” Father had spoken in a ghostly matter “The doctor had worked on this thing for many years in t…
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On The Run

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Logan
Logan had watched as a young teen was struggling for air.
Logan had started to smother her tighter and tighter as the minutes… -
My Child [Clipping Challenge]

You were always in the background, although you deserved to be the star of the show here on Earth.
I never realized how impo…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter One
The Blue Brain Project was a novel idea: if we can’t create Turing-primed artificial intelligence through conventional progra…
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Loveterror
I’m terrified in love.
Utterly, bewilderingly, happily terrified.
And I want to spend the rest of my life with you in my ar…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Two

Henry Markram was a genius in the same way that Victor Frankenstein was a genius.
As director of the Blue Brain Project, he …
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How to Save a Job
The tack was the only thing I found that worked. I had lost three jobs, and was well on the way to losing numero cuatro when …
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The Human Defect
The man with no face does not fear anything in life nor does he hold the very parents who had sold him away.
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Last Temptation of Hezidrixal (p.laure clipping challenge)

Hezidrixal was floating in the moonlight. Though he’d been warned, the moon was too bright and the sky too clear, he couldn’t…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Three

If the Blue Brain labs couldn’t support the simulation, it was time to scale up. Henry Markram was writing a virus.
Not a ma…
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Seriously, She Is More Important

The alarm sounded off. I stirred a little and sat up. I woke Brooke up too, apparently.
“Please stay?” She whispered.
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Reaching a Verdict

Walking beyond the campus into the dark tunnel, his worn-out adidas sneakers were wearing holes in his socks.He -didn’t want …
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Spinning and Spinning, Round and Round

As I was looking on towards the Italian Swings at this carnival, I noticed there was nobody on it. _Why do they run it when n…
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First Date? Part 1 (New Beginnings Series)

He came to the hospital to pick her up at 11 just like he said. They went to a near by coffee place. They ordered their drink…
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First Date? Part 2 (New Beginnings Series)

“Sooo a radiologist huh?” Teal said.
“Yes, I love my job, well I love both of my jobs,” she answered.
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Four (R_M)

The six months passed with agonizing slowness. Dr. Markram did what he could on the project with the budget he had, sometimes…
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First Date? Part 3 (New Beginnings Series)

“Oh dang, ok. I think I can handle that.”
“Good, because you have no choice,” she laughed. “You have siblings?”
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First Date? Part 4 (New Beginnings Series)

“First date?? No no no shawty this was not our first date. You gotta do better than coffee.”
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I Wanna Love You

_I know you see me lookin’ at you and you already know
I wanna love you (love you), you already know
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Four

The next day, Dr. Markram told the team that he had secured anonymous funding for the Blue Brain Project to continue, and tha…
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"Out of my mind."

I was living, but I was nonexistent. It was bliss. I felt like I was watching everything I had every experienced, in or or ou…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Five

Dr. Markram anticipated the computer cloud would cover 115% of the project’s needs. Hopefully more, but no less. 125% would b…
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The Slightly Offset Mind of the Hacker Type
I grab another can of Diet Coke and settle down for a night in front of the PC. It is vacation after all…finally hours of u…
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Only A Baby?!

I walked into the room and saw that Anna had awakened. “Anna!” I cried, hurrying to her. Her head turned toward the sound of …
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Six

Some of the developers on the team grumbled about scope creep. One even resigned, but he was easily replaceable; the Blue Bra…
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Life is Like a Poem
Life is like poem,
happy or sad.
Its just how you live it that you decide your faith,
I go through life with a positive attit… -
To Die Of Total Boredom And Mass Confusion or Not To Die Of Total Boredom And Mass Confusion (Or, How Professor Buttercup's Torture Was Planned In My Mind)

There were many reasons why the idea of going into Professor Buttercup’s room was the equivalent of 523 bombs going off in my…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Seven

Dr. Markram arrived at the lab one cold December morning to find the team in a panic.
“What’s going on?” he shouted.
One of…
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chapter 3

So here i am, rideless and drunk. I could call Maggies mom, she’s always been the coolest.
But she’d totally shoot me when sh… -
Recruiting for the Surprise

Eve sat on the park ench stunned and let Dante run off. She sensed that he needed to be alone, and she completly understood t…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Eight

Within seconds, the alert was silenced and the capacity levels climbed again, stabilizing comfortably around 250%.
A series …
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The World Will Keep Spinning

“Your methods of interrogation never cease to amaze me, Rollins. Supplying him all that false information. He’s a history tea…
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The creature
Alexa Buckman stood at the edge, staring at the amazing sight before her. Her two parkas, sealskin boots, and wolfskin hood w…
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And We Could All Use a Little Change

After a couple hours of looking, I found a clearing in the middle of a forest, a ways up a dirt road that didn’t look like it…
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The Importance of Commas
“Let’s eat, children!”
“Let’s eat children!”
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“Sh, it is in a library.”
Well, you can figure this one out on your own….
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Five (R_C)

As he approached the library in the early evening he realised that something was dreadfully wrong.
Normally at this time th…
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Mission Accomplished.

A couple of days later…
Andrew and Eric are sitting at their usual lunch table..
Eric says, “So… Andy. When you gonna m…
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Dream of His Life.

Andrew was ready for this date. He had put on a nice t-shirt and some jeans and some colonge and messed up his hair and, he w…
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Life is Like A Poet

Life is like a poet.
You probably won’t be appreciated until after you’re dead.
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Don't Have To Worry

I sat down at my desk. What am I going to do while he’s gone? It’s winter break and I have nothing to do. I shook my head.I…
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Ficlet Number CL: A Cup of Inspiration
I have finally reached the point of no return. That point was actually the day I wrote my first Ficlet but here I am on numbe…
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To The Stage

Joe and Wesley came back shortly after. We sat on the beach for a while, until Mrs. Jonas came and told us we had to head ove…
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She was Maritza
“Understand; I’m the baddest man alive. So let’s just…bend ya knees and do the G5.” I sighed. I’m going to die today, might…
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Life: It's in the Parenthesis [Ficlet CL Challenge]

I decided to go for an evening stroll (as is my occasional want). I walked about three blocks (which doesn’t take as long as …
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 9

A year later, the reawakened Firefox looked out upon a very different Internet. She quickly scanned Google News and other arc…
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Six (R_M)

With a shudder of revulsion, Markram shouldered past the…zombies? No, not zombies. Oddly-behaved people, that was it. Keepi…
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Horn of a Dilemma

The next day, Nina woke to a shrill whinny of panic in the distance. She glanced out from the shelter at the rain, still comi…
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Georgia Dee, Ironically, Is a Supporter of the EPA
As he scribbled the note in his narrow cursive, he thought of his beloved Georgia a thousand miles away. She had left for Ger…
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Georgia Dee, Ironically, Is a Supporter of the EPA
As he scribbled the note in his narrow cursive, he thought of his beloved Georgia a thousand miles away. She had left for Ger…
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Enjoying The Dream (X)

Okay, fine, I thought. I’ll go along with this little dream. Maybe it’ll give me some ideas for next week’s session.
“So…
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It Can Wait
Leaning against the wall before class, my ipod is running, I’m just waiting for a friend. Then, there she is. I wave. I know …
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I Will Survive

Then the horn was withdrawn by the unicorn who had stabbed it through her back. Nina blinked, feeling where it had poked thro…
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Very Late For Work (XI)

Weird though it was, the coin in my pocket was quickly forgotten when I saw the clock. It was almost 2:30p! My boss was going…
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The Beggining

“Bye Mom,” I said closing the door, watching my mom pull out of the driveway in her BMW.
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The Rapidly Deconstructing, Reconstructing Mind

Terry had another flash.
A hit of ecstasy.
The door of a bathroom stall.
A high school classroom.
His mother.His mind was …
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The Changing Season

Jeremy woke up the next day earlier than usual, because Jay poked his head and hands until Jeremy got out of bed. Jay was out…
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Fired! (XII)

“Four days…” I muttered, stunned. No. No, it wasn’t possible. I pulled the gold coin out of my pocket and looked at it. Sur…
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Caring for Jay

The days passed, and with each day, came colder winds and temperature. Nonetheless, Jeremy kept that window open, and Jay let…
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Moving On-Chapter 2

It had been one month, three days, and six hours since I last saw her. But who’s counting? I still remember the last words s…
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Ace Casecloser and the Toy Cars (part 1)

I was in the middle of class when the PA system said:
Ace Casecloser, report to the office.
I entered the chilly office an… -
Dmitri Alexei and the Buried Tomb of the First Emperor
It had taken years of paperwork, soil core samples, ground-penetrating radar, and arguing before the tomb of China’s first em…
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Ace Casecloser and the Toy Cars (part 2)

“Mark Everett, is it true that you and Jared Ejevett had a fight last week?” I interrogated him in the hallway.
“Yeah. What’s… -
Zen and the Art of Transformation

After a while, I figured out what the problem was. I was trying too hard. I thought I had to work out where every bit went an…
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The Happy Tortur - I Mean, Doctor

“So, how do you feel?” asked Dr. Sheing, fingers at the ready to jot down any feedback.
I didn’t give him the pleasure. But …
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pause.

The blankness of my mind illuded my senses. The world seemed to be on pause, although I was the only one who could not move. ...
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 10

The Firefox flitted through the worlds—virtual and real at the same time, as they were now overlaid on top of each other. If …
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Madeleine's, pt 2

She knew I was there but continued to serve drinks and banter with her customers in at least 3 languages as I sipped the pote…
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Bad Girls Really Put Away Their Dinner

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He's really gone...
“How close were you to him?” the reporter asked me.
“Very. He was my best friend,” was my simple response. I was still in sho… -
I Want Those Flashing Lights by Colin Munroe(music challenge)

_You saw the mil today; today I’m lucky if I could get paid…Your girls are fine; it seems a dime or two in every dozen. I o…
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Your Escape???
Sometimes, I’m sad.
Sometimes, I’m confused.
Sometimes, I’m frustrated.
Sometimes, I’m lost.
At those times, I just escap…