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Chris Benton
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Short story writer, intense spouse of 26 years, last limb of my tree, I like the gothic mode...
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I’ve loved the dark, sorcerous works of the poet and wordsmith Clark Ashton Smith for almost as long as I’ve loved horror. My tale “Clotaire of the Cross” ventures into the medieval world of Smith’s Averoigne to uncover the deadly secret that a sadistic Marquis is hiding…

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October 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I crack up when my spouse is away, it's primal, she's my only family left...
October 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The language of Christ isn't even included, it's only lone twisted signifiers, most Americans can't recognize any language because they're scandalously deeply retarded ...
It’s amazing how cynically Nietzschean right wing “Christians” are. They don’t actually believe in the faith, they just like the trappings of the faith.
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I like bluesky, it's the Jekyll of the Hyde...
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It's cool, you know who you are...
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Respectfully, The Thing is not a Halloween movie, it is an end of January movie
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Cash it and buy a skeleton Irish cottage and haul ass...
October 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The kingdom of darkness, etc...
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The majority of our SCOTUS contain the moral complexity of Spanish inquisitors...
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Opening Titles
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October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm very upset this evening
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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do you ever just want to slam your own head into a brick wall over and over
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
October 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Remember when we had air traffic controllers?
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
No outrage because the mass body constituency is a monstrous illiterate bestial fucktard, America was left to breed in vast remote wastelands with zero culture and education...
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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One Battle After Another is a fun fantasy film set in a universe where the entire federal law enforcement apparatus targeting leftist revolutionaries is one roughly five man team headed by a former border patrol camp administrator
October 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tubi's catalog is unbeatable right now...
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm grateful to have traveled through all deserts in my merciless country, south and north...
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Top advice on teaching creative writing: teach Keats' letter to Leigh Hunt.

"I’ll cavern you, and grotto you, and waterfall you, and wood you, and water you, and immense-rock you, and tremendous-sound you, and solitude you..."
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is the worst passage of 21st century America, and only we mid-agers have the moral rage to do anything, most kids only think in alienated cyber-ironies, they contain absolutely zero ancient terror of tyranny...
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Beautifully lucid, brave, eloquent, Schumer needs to go...
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"The enemy within," is psychotic propaganda for a psychotic bestial constituency on stand-by within and beside the military in the major cities when Democratic elections are declared dead in 2028...
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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.. the gurgle and the sway came to me, the tone of steel, the swelling, the sudden leakage to the West. The word: syzygy! — the smell of that gadget that moves and shines between azimuths, coordinates, parallaxes, etc., the height of the sun— everything!

- Valery to Gide, 1893
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM