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Asteroid Eros
When I wrote the first part of Heavenly Potato, I had been reading about asteroids, and came across the mention of Eros. The shape of it reminded me of a potato, and the images NASA has of it could be an inspection of a potato in black and white. It is rather interesting to look…
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Heavenly Potato: Chapter 2
Demex looked at the probe data again. It appeared that yet another star system had the right conditions for life. Unfortunately, this one appeared to be already inhabited with semi-intelligent life. The indications were there, showing that they had the ability to harness energy from heavy elements. They don’t appear to be very advanced though.…
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How I Found a Pot of Gold: Introduction
Hi. I’m Georgie the leprechaun. I am not a boy. Most leprechauns think I’m a boy. Maybe humans are smarter than leprechauns sometimes and don’t mistake me for a boy. I hope so. This story is complicated. I’m just warning you now before you read. Oh yeah. I’ll tell you about life here as a…
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Monkey Fist
I took a writing class last year. The class was about the habit of writing, rather than the craft of writing. As such, it had daily writing prompts and weekly discussions about our writing with various types of exercises to get you writing. One of the class assignments was to bring an inanimate object. I…
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Images: Good or Bad?
One of the regular suggestions I see, (when I am looking) in the WordPress and online presence guidance, is add pictures/ images/ thumbnails/ icons/ logos to your work. I mean, I did that for my ‘professional’ blog. It has a logo that I created, from things that are important to me, and are a part…
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Heavenly Potato
This is one of my earlier starts. I wrote this about the time that I first got excited about the idea of writing a {story|book|novel}. I had an idea that I wanted to work with, and I took a stab at getting started. Unfortunately, I submitted it to my wife and (eldest) daughter right after…
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Argumentative Writing – Is TikTok Safe for Kids
Everyone loves TikTok, right? But is it truly safe for kids? I don’t think so. First of all, TikTok has inappropriate content. Some of the shots have swearing and violence that is not kid friendly. These clips can encourage young users to imitate inappropriate behavior. Nobody wants kids to be acting more… shall we say,…
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Unique Painting
I’ve got to admit, my titles are less than satisfactory. But never mind that. This painting is… shall we call it… unique because it’s painted on a paper towel. Bounty, to be specific. Whenever I think of Bounty I think of a quote from their ad. “Bounty, the quicker picker-upper.” It looks a bit messy,…
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Why Be Polite to AI?
I am one of those weird people who wants to tell Alexa ‘Thank you’ after I have asked a question or given an instruction. If you think about it, it really is kind of silly, right? ‘She’ is merely a complex set of digital instructions running on various computer hardware. She doesn’t have feelings, and…
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Excerpt: Escape of the AI
This was a rough start of a story, that I started writing a while back. Since I wrote this, I have figured out how badly this story starts. Probably a good thing I didn’t finish, don’t you think? Ed was nervous. Today was an important day, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him.…
