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The Savage Queen (Part I)

22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Kull of Atlantis

Visions (Introduction) It was another world, the world of the Savage Queen. To you or I, it would be barely distinguishable from a dream, for so much like a dream it was, and so alien to our senses, so foreign to our comprehension it remains. It was...

How My Wife Gave Me My Username

17 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments tipplenurkey

   As a husband, one of my many duties in life is to annoy, irritate, or otherwise provoke my wife's ire for my own amusement whenever possible.  At the time this story takes place, we had been married for seven years, so I'd already had plenty of ti...

I might be a closet politician...

17 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment tipplenurkey

   Okay, so I just posted this literary masterpiece about why I support a cashless economy.  The problem is, I totally stepped on my own crank and repeatedly made mention of a fact that hasn't been the case for nearly 50 years, which someone pointed...

MLB 2020: Clash of Clans

16 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Wharved

Baseball season is almost upon us, you guys! Let's go, 2020!! I grew up in Chicago, that toddling town just on the western shore of Lake Michigan (you may have heard of it). In this stomping ground of all kinds of trade and culture, two baseballing s...

How I used ChangeNOW for weeks and didn't notice

14 Jul 2020 9 minute read 26 comments ProngsDark

I thought about whether or not to enter this writing competition and I initially settled against writing anything since I had no prior experience with ChangeNOW and their services. I thought it wasn't really my place to write about things I don't kn...

A warm summer

26 Jun 2020 1 minute read 2 comments PhoenixDev

A warm summer This summer has started being very warm, with high temperatures. Everyone is looking for a place in the shade or how to cool off. Even animals look for a place to cool off and drink water. That is why I was attracted to take this photog...

Sack the Bank: A Splinterlands Tale

24 Jun 2020 7 minute read 0 comments Chris Roberts

  On a dark and hazy in night in the western foothills of the Seed Mountains, a quite uncommon outfit of criminals was gathered. The largest of the deviants was the Stone Golem, reclining stoically against a boulder. Finding a Stone Golem among such...

A walk in the woods

18 Jun 2020 2 minute read 2 comments RandomMusings

"I know it sounds silly, but you have to trust me," Billy says, his voice quivering. We're sitting in his room, and his hands tremble as he narrates the story. "That's ridiculous. How do you even come up with something like that", I say astounded at...

To the moon? Seriously, what moon??

12 Jun 2020 1 minute read 3 comments papaPutra

Today I wanna tell you a quick thoughts of myself about this crypto-thingie term from these coin minded people. coin minded, lol.na, I meant crypto communities. My English is ugly.Anyway.. All they said in few years ago was something about moon or d...

Spiritual healing. (Claustrophobia case) non-fiction

6 Jun 2020 8 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Usually, Rachel preferred walking on the 5th floor to her apartment rather than using the elevator. After this exercise, her legs felt like cast irons and she had to take a shower, but it was still better than being in the elevator. She didn’t know...