Danival worked his way behind the serving counter. He walked to the coffee machine and pretended to look at it. He tried breathing through his teeth to filter out the smell of the place but that just put it on his tongue. He couldn’t concentrate.
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Caterpillar On The Lip
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You couldn't count the number of buses Behvos and Felipe had thrown each other under. When they played their alliances into war, either one would emerge from the wreckage.

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Danival remembered a time where Xiao Lin had pretended a canister of mints in his pocket was a weapon. "We got a problem?" Xiao Lin had said and held his hand over his butt pocket.

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Danival had always imagined Carlos Wen as one of those smooth nerds who wore suit jackets and bracelets. Found a way to skim some extra dollars from a job that didn’t pay him enough. Now, Danival pictured Carlos as a guy who never wore a shirt because his body

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He swallowed a soupy ball of saliva. He decided on "sympathetic energy" because that sounded like something he had heard on a news article about winning arguments. "I need some help with getting around customer service." What was "sympathetic energy" anyway?

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“Nice to see you again. Ha. Ha.” The sound didn’t come from Xuan Ji’s face, but the distorted speakers embedded in the stand itself. ... His head was pounding. Every time he pressed one area of his skull or neck, the pain moved like noodles slipping off a spoon.

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FOUNDATION IS BACK

"Xiao Lin talked about compound interest and leveraged assets and supply backlog plus a few other terms Danival thought rich people made up to stay busy memorizing facts in school."
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an object floating on the horizon stuck at the same level despite any attempt you make to change your perective.. does it approach or is it going away.. a view into a future that will never be.. the owls may know.. s a t u r d a y

Pantheon season 1 is a blast. I really enjoy the Michael Crichton story of nerds standing around talking about nerd-stuff while the world potentially crumbles around them.

"pizza ramen" so.. pasghetti?

Real talk re: technology - I get far more daily utility and quality of life value out of my "smart" toilet, with its heated seat, lighted bowl, automatic flushing and massaging bidet functionality, than any bit of "AI" currently being foisted onto the market, with far less environmental degradation.

Recently finished Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's MONSTRESS book 1

I've started using wordcounter.net to sniff out repetitiveness in my writing. I have my dangerlist of words. Getting my Top 8 words that show up in a passage uncovers a lot of subconscious bias. I really like the x2/x3 feature. There's lots of "thinking about getting rich" in this one... 🤔🤔 #writing

"When he died, his mind faded into obscurity with the blossoming of the universe. An amalgamation of everything his minuscule, meat sack of a brain could ever hope to comprehend or had experienced through the blip of a couple decades."

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