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Steve Currence

@essdotcurr.bsky.social

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Some kinda hybrid of wordsmith and quasi-intelligent coatimundi, prone to frequent caffeine engulfment. Genius spilled here and there, but mostly nonsense otherwise. As always, grammarfails are baked into the final product.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 3d

The orator's tongue was a mighty blade. As I watched him hop from subject to subject with aplomb and verve, envy overtook me. For all of my verbal stylings, I doubted I'd ever come within a mile of this maestro.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 3d

The city grew exponentially fierce and brutal. More innocent blood was shed. But nary an eyebrow was raised. Apathy became a highly contagious disease, sullying the city more the omnipresent violence that gave birth to the apathy.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 4d

A diamond stud earring in each ear.
A toothpick hanging out of the mouth.
A near-endless supply of army fatigues, tank tops, and colorful sardonicisms.
The kid at age 16: some kind of rebel.
Legend in his own mind.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 4d

"I posit that, where mankind at-large is concerned, one resides either among the virtuous or among the vacuous. The former works for the benefit of his neighbor, while the latter works for the benefit of his self."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 7d

The mako shark was stunning in its beauty and its ferocity. In its belly were the remains of an associate of mine. The particulars that led to his fate were my pressing concern.

I had a notion: he was drawn to the waters.
But by whom?

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 8d

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 8d

2 in the morning.
My insomnia: resilient as ever.
I flip on the TV.
A bald gentleman speaks with urgency and authoritativeness about the shortness of our stay on Earth.
I listen.
I absorb.
Life: altered.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 9d

I'd prepared what came to be known as a "Paradise Tape": sounds of the beach, replete with prominent crashing waves. I placed my headset on and in moments, I was on holiday in Tenerife, baking in the sun, mimosa in hand and inamorata on my arm.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 9d

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One taste of butterscotch Schnapps.
Followed by another, and another, and another and . . .
Soon, I saw fit to loosen my tongue.
And say things better left unsaid.
It was captured by a would-be amigo,
set astray on social media,
and augured self-imposed pariahdom.

Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 11d

"Remorse, contrition, probity . . . these concepts are foreign to him. He has declared himself free from the
confines under which we operate. He maneuvers without fear of reprisal or regard for the consequences."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 11d

From thirty-thousand feet in the air, the world below was a varicolored oasis of beguiling geometry.

There was majesty down there, indeed.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 16d

The truth failed to assuage my fears. A lie would've ameliorated them, but at too great a cost. Deception, I've found, is never the better part of the valor.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 16d

Share.
Overshare.
Floodgates of scrutiny open.
Torrent of regret follows.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 19d

Death's eventuality offered no fear, only resolve. It was not of a question of whether I will pass. The pressing issue: what was I going to do with the time alotted until that morbid moment?

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 19d

"The world's a stage, n' we're all characters in some godforsaken show. Does this show amount to art, or chaos? The answer is both, always, n' it keeps the audience intrigued."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 19d

A solitary note
was struck on an out-of-tune piano.
More notes followed
and the villagers cried.
They'd been robbed of music
for such a prolonged, dolorous epoch,
that even the imperfect melodicals
lifted their spirits.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 20d

The overseer's acolytes grew more desparate and pungent in their impositions and proclamations. They knew nothing of the fury they were feeding among the populace.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 20d

"I sought to game the system, else it would game me, phase me, judge me in the balance, n' find me wanting. My act may be a crime by some, but I hope it's seen as a bellwether: the first, grand transformative action of its kind."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 20d

A bright field of flowering lavender is where we conspired. There was nothing extraordinary about it, aside from the fact we were there and that's all that mattered.

Amidst the fear of getting caught, we embraced and commingled right there.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 23d

Another temporal jaunt:
52 years, 2 months, and 3 days into the future.
A transformational catastrophe averted.
But the aftereffects are rising in intensity:
sensitivity to light and sound,
cluster headaches,
and every night, I awake drenched in sweat.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 23d

"Be wary of any mope whose spurious pontifications begin with 'They say'. 'They' is either nonexistent or it's a consortium of like-minded mopes who'd struggle to tell night from day."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 25d

Rumors of wars and turmoil sent stock prices tumbling. The spirits of the populace followed shortly thereafter. Bit by bit, the signs pointed to a disaster in the midst.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 25d

I entered with a silent, barely-controllable anger. Without breaking my stride, I took a seat, grabbed pencil and paper, and unfurled my missive. I poured every bit of my palpable frustration upon the page.

Two hours later, the missive was complete.

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 25d

"Eat or starve. That's the guiding force behind most action. N' in desperation, the prospect of going hungry will make many entertain some vivid ideas."

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Steve Currence @essdotcurr.bsky.social · 26d

A veritable treasure was lost in the river
by bumbling, stumbling mopes.
Down a winding path did it travel,
through many an estuary and many a branch,
finding its terminus down a storm drain,
to be unceremoniously forgotten.

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