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“Made Cheap”
It was a Friday evening at about 6 or 7, and I was out with a group of friends from work who had essentially migrated from the office on Fifth Avenue to a small bar just around the corner. It had been a long day, and I didn’t necessarily want to be out- I wanted…
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Star Empires: Abbie
“What time is it in Phoenix, Abbie?” “Seven a.m., Sam. It’s raining.” “So she wouldn’t be on the porch right now.” “No, sorry.” “I’d like to see the house anyway.” “Give me a minute.” “Sure thing.” He rose and began to walk towards the rear of the cockpit. “I’m going to get a coffee. When…
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Sunset
It’s true that you couldn’t see the sun for most of the day, but once in a while, on a very lucky day, you could see it at sunrise and sunset just as it touched the horizon, as if the edges of the cover of filth over the world were burned away briefly to reveal…
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What is the greatest gift someone could give you? Their time
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Star Trek Adventures Captain’s Log “Bring Me the Head of Richard Gabriel Gloucester” Act One
(I used probability matrices for the basic setup and added my own flourishes. My Starfleet crew I’d created long ago, and I created the NPCs to fit the story. Dice rolls are matrices are just generally used to advance or twist the plot. One more note. While this sticks to the three acts, I’m not…
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Freedom
Freedom was a thing we read about in the papers. And after the last of the papers had been published and then read and then used to wrap fish in or insulate a drafty shack, freedom gradually became a concept. A catchphrase. An insult even. It became a word the kids used as slang that,…
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