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3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney
Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...
1 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Wopney
Who are the real Pirates? “and so we overtook the sloop commanded by Captain Beer. We raided and stripped it to the bone. Most of their crew had been slaughtered by the time we managed to board but captain Bellamy wanted to keep the merchant vessel....
1 Jan 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Something Out Of Nothing
So, just a bit of explaining beforehand… At the time I wrote this I was making the trip to and from Florida every couple weeks to assist my Dad after he had an amputation. I was so bored with the trip that I wasn’t wanting to listen to music or podca...
31 Dec 2024 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Denise had done her homework before reaching this decision, slowly accumulating what she needed over the past couple of weeks. Even so, when limited to what one might carry on one’s person, running out of supplies remained a legitimate c...
30 Dec 2024 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney
LONDON 1780 THE BURNING OF NEWGATE PRISON “Strike, and let the fire spread, For in the ashes lies the seed.” The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliament. Criminals they held responsible for passing the Act. Yet, t...
26 Dec 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy knows enough about Denise to recognize when she means business. Therefore he makes a point of rising early himself in the morning, before the hysteria kicks in concerning her absence. He has business to conduct in Stokely, and knows th...
20 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments crywork
The buildings where people live and work, factories transformed into autarkic mini-villages, are decorated with hologram-projected lights. These projections sparkle in cool, futuristic tones of blue and green neon, evoking fir trees and crypt...
20 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments ROcrypton
What we're going to talk about today, maybe about the text I just wrote and didn't have the courage to post. It was about the Starlink signal being turned off in India after the seizure of equipment that was in the possession of criminals, but Elon...
19 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Something Out Of Nothing
I can put the AI to shame when it comes to transforming words into a work of art. My blood, sweat, & years flow through this pen combining to form a replica image of my heart. I could take the light of the sun and multiply it by a number that humanit...
16 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Jeremy’s seated at the round wooden table in his cabin, having just finished the task at hand. Underneath the bright floor lamp shining over his shoulder, he’s gone through every tree in the sketch book, comparing the names Drucker scribbled,...
