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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 559: Empire Growing From Earth

There’s a feeling of searching through space in order to find out what is behind the sun, but the thing is we are likely never to know as there are so many factors in play that we cannot know. Still, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 308: A City that Does not Want to Let Go

A groaning city sits far on the plain from where we stand. It is quiet and on the opposite side is where the land meets the sea. The city has been as still as the desert that it once was. … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 295: The Carrot

It was a cold morning in which The Carrot rose to the occasion, preparing itself for something that was as daring as it was defying the conjecture that had been going o-n throughout the village of the greens. The Carrot … Continue reading

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One Thousand Word Challenge 20: Chickens will be the Dominant Species in the Future

Chickens. They are numerous and many. There are more chickens in the world than there are people. I’ve read that there’s somewhere around fifty billion chickens. The information I read probably said “more than”, which is something that I imagine … Continue reading

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A Short Polemic on Marriage Equality

Quite recently in the news in regards to gay marriage, Peter Dutton said that someone (specifically the CEO of QANTAS, although I’m certain that it applied to all CEOS) shouldn’t use a company  or shareholders’ money to push their agenda … Continue reading

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