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Mister Dancer - ch 1
When did jogging get easy? Okay, not easy, exactly. At some point these sweaty walks got faster, steadier and maybe even routine. The when doesn’t really matter. Now it’s easier than … work, maybe. But work will always be hard. Why else would they pay us. Hustling along the empty sidewalk, the late-morning haze filters the sunlight to a distant warmth. A tiny mail car shoots down the empty street, slowing only when it goes past me. Another streaks through an intersection far ahead. Factory identical houses, one after another. Dirt lots, maybe an unkempt flower bed, empty driveways next to flood floors. Each home has a few visible differences: window curtains, deck furniture and other outdoor garbage mostly. Back when they were built, each of the thousand or so houses in the neighborhood had been painted one of a hundred pastel colors. Are they able to use different colors in other places? I turn at the corner. A few houses down the road, an old lady stands, water can and cutters
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Mister Dancer
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Pokemon: the Risen - E1 - HTML
Chapter 0
This time around, things are going to be different. The usual narrator is away and I'll be filling in. Don't worry, I follow his rules, mostly; just a brief introduction and then let the story tell itself. But I should warn you, I don't see this world the way he does. Things will be different, definitely so; I like to think a little realism will go a long way toward making things more interesting. Reality bites, but is all the more wondrous for it.
We begin our adventure listening only to night's dry heat. It's too hot for the Kricketots to be still playing and even the Zubats and Hoothoots have gone to roost early. The only creat
Pokemon - the Risen
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Literature
My Mind of Murder - E1
Chapter 1
"Ready? Steady … Fight!" The stands must hold some billions of spectators, world populations seated in a space that questions sanity, tier upon tier of them screaming bloody murder at the two combatants. When one tier of stands has reached far back enough to make viewing the arena impossible due to the sheer distances involved, another tier sits above it, and another and another. Each successive tier is a little higher and a little more sloped, creating a hemispheric dome completed by a small circular glass platform at the very pinnacle for fans to watch down through. The fans in the upper sections must be buckled in, or usin
My Mind of Murder
19 deviations
Literature
Family Matters - E1
INT. FAMILY HOME KITCHEN – MORNING AT SUNRISE
Warm kitchen that serves as the central location of the Family house, comfortably cluttered counters but all have recently been tidied and wiped clean. FATHER sits in his favorite chair at the head of the small dinner table, he sips his coffee and places dry cereal food before BABY in the nearby high chair. Father is a somewhat-bald man in his early forties, Baby is at most a year old. The creak as the kitchen's door opens causes Father to snatch up a section from the newspaper, previously a coaster for his drink. DAUGHTER enters the kitchen slowly, a girl of around twelve. She wears her nor
Family Matters
66 deviations
Literature
Character - Sorrow
INT. HOME OF IRE AND WEEP, LIVINGROOM – LATE MORNING
The room is small and concise, the livingroom of people who prefer to live elsewhere. A few chairs sit together, made of a woolen fabric that looks very uncomfortable. A flame lamp on a low table struggles desperately to provide light to the gloomy room, as the very air around it seems to choke out all light. A man of around thirty, IRE, sits in one chair; he glares up at the ceiling and looks constantly angry as if by long practice. A woman slightly younger than Ire, WEEP, sits across from him; she continues to cry loudly in to her damp sleeves. Both have gray skin and wear strange,
High War
91 deviations
Literature
Pokemon: the Game - Chapter 24
“This will be a one on one battle. Use as many Pokemon as you have. Winner takes half of the loser's Pokedollars.” The young woman is sitting in a harness that hangs down from the cliff edge above. Below her is a long drop to the canyon floor.
Zack steps out from a ledge to a harness opposite his opponent. Between them is a stretch of vertical climbing wall mixed with ledges. Several of the ledges have holes in the dirt wall large enough for an average sized Pokemon to walk inside. Cid and a herd of Scraggy watch from above, only their heads poking out over the edge of the canyon wall.
“Oh, and if you return a Pokemon that
Pokemon - the Game
25 deviations
Literature
Heroic Spider-Man - Season 2 Issue 1
Spider Man
“Happy Birthday, MJ!” Peter Parker says in unison with Harry Osborne, his best friend in the whole wide world. Across the table is Mary Jane Watson, the redheaded girl of his dreams. MJ blows out the candle resting on some sort of cupcake covered in palm leaves and brown grass.
Harry leans back in his chair with the biggest grin. “Hope you like this place. It usually has a two month waiting list, but I pulled some strings to get us a table for tonight.”
“It sure is unique.” Mary Jane looks around the room.
Large tribal masks and folk art cover all the blank spaces on the walls. A live band pla
Other Sequential Stories
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Aus Akasha
12 deviations
Literature
Character - Halfling Summoner
Greetings Master Vega,
I had wished to send you word of my survival, but on consideration I now wonder if I will indeed be alive for much longer. Still, I live now due in part to your lessons and wished to thank you for all that you taught me. So a quick recounting of my planar travels is due, then I will fill you in on current events.
Never again will I doubt your ability to send this halfling tumbling through the curtain separating us from those dangerous outside realms. When you unceremoniously tossed me into the portal, wishing me luck in such a good-natured way, I had hoped to end up somewhere relatively safe, Syrania at best or perhap
Craw-Land
17 deviations
Literature
Page 1 - VV's story
The story changes depending on who you ask. Ask the proud Shoanti chieftain, he will say he snuck into the largest Chelaxian estate he could find and stole right from under the noses of an army of corpulent guards its most valued treasure, which turned out to be the eldest daughter of the baron living there. Ask the free-spirited Chelaxian heiress, she will tell you the most handsome man in the world came into her room one night and swept her away from a dreary world of stifling balls and haughty politics, not to mention the most disgusting marriage proposer she had ever laid eyes on. Ask most any gossipy local who heard about the incident th
Gypsy Tales
52 deviations
Literature
Monthly Webcomics - Volume 7
Elsie Hooper
by Robert Krzykowski
Colors are not the only way to create a mood, but they do provide a significant contribution alongside the basic methods of what happens and how the characters react. Vivid or glow-y colors can make a world feel futuristic or dream-like, dull earth-tones are often associated with realism and a hum-drum existence, solid colors can show that the world is simple while shading can be an identifier of complexity. Blues and grays can feel sad, reds and yellows can feel happy, greens and oranges might just make you feel sick. The two most potent though are not technically colors at all; in the West specifically bla
Webcomic Reviews
22 deviations
Literature
3 Tips for Thick Skin
I've heard so many people say they want thick skin. Having developed a pretty good thick skin care routine myself, I thought I would share some tips. Frankly, the people I hear wishing they had thick skin seem to have one wrong idea to begin with: they talk like thick skin means being invulnerable to emotional pain. We might call this the Stoic method – Is there any pain right now? I don't notice any. I can't feel pain because I have thick skin. Now I'll admit there's a bit of Stoicism mixed into my thick skin care routine, some “fake it until you make it” confidence that you can gain by believing in the process. But denying pain is not going to help you in the long run. Instead let's think of thick skin as a sort of armor against the pains of the world, something we can put on or take off as needed, with gaps and flexible joints for maneuverability. And just like a quality set of armor, thick skin must be put on in steps. 1) Smile & Laugh Proper thick skin care starts with
Nonfiction
35 deviations
Literature
Lean - A Work From Home Future
When did jogging get easy?
Okay, not easy - at some point these sweaty walks got faster, steadier and maybe even routine. The when doesn’t really matter. Now it’s easier than … work, even though I’ve been working way longer than jogging.
But work will always be hard. Why else would they pay us to do it.
I hustle along the empty sidewalk. The late-morning haze filters the sunlight to a distant warmth. A tiny mail car shoots down the empty street, slowing to about a third its speed going by me. Another streaks through an intersection far ahead.
Factory identical houses go by one after another. Dirt lots, maybe an unk
Complete Story First Chapters
10 deviations
Complete Story First Chapters10
I've written a number of complete stories, from short to novel length, and in prose or script style. This folder is the first page or chapter of each, and in the description you should find a link to the next part. Some of them are a bit old as far as the writing goes, but I still like the ideas I was exploring while writing them. I hope you will enjoy them too!
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