OT: Fire

Apparently there was a fire in one of the apartment complex buildings in my subdivision. The apartment-syle buildings are all up the hill from me, as opposed to near the river where the single-family homes are. In a number of cases a couple of apartment buildings are actually connected, and this seems to [...]

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Yet Another at Writerscafe

Pacione has been busy posting another old story, if you can call it that, at Writerscafe.org. This one is “In the Eyes of a Skull.”
The words itself cannot even relate to what they saw or related but the nightmares of what lives within a child’s tormented mind were in the sense true when they [...]

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HUH?

WTF? Seriously, wtf? I received word of this from a friend. Eight years into the future, I’ll never “get” it.
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Ain’t No Stinkin’ Blue Orchid

I have these two blooming at the moment. I’m still waiting for my Cymbidium to rebloom from its two spikes (should happen within the next week or so).
First up, we have a red Tolumnia (Rodricidium Apple Blossom x Tolumnia Elfin Star).

Next is a run-of-the-mill orange Epidendrum. These grow like weeds for people in SoCal [...]

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British Fantasy Society

This excerpt arrived in an email:
I hear Dagstine wants to join the British Fantasy Society (see Whispers of Wickedness threads  ‘chat’). I respect the BFS and sent the secretary an email about Dagstine.
[. . .]
All I know is that if they let him in, he will drag their reputation down.
That probably is true, given the [...]

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