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A word map of Beyond a Dream
I've retitled my most recent novel once again to be a bit more fitting. I feel like I've been working on this book forever but by the end of tomorrow I'll order a proof copy for myself and a few friends to read over for a final edit.
I'm really proud of myself for what I've done with this story but I'm also terrified that no one else will appreciate it. I feel like I've poured my soul into this one, at least partially, and really hope my readers (few as they may be) can connect with the characters.
I can't wait to read it as an actual physical book so that I can get around to setting a publishing date. I'm hoping to get this done before the end of the year but who knows.
Tagged adult life, adventure, advice for new authors, amazon publishing, art, author, author charlotte cyprus, author update, autumn, blogging, book, book blog, book release, books, bpd, character development, creative writing, emotional writing, fairies, Fairy curse novel, fairy tales, fantasy, fantasy book, fantasy novel, female writers, fiction, novel writing
The Peelers
I was born for one purpose. My duty in life is to provide nourishment to the Peelers, to help fuel their lives by giving my own. My life was dark for some time, a flash of brightness before I and my brothers were taken away from our home. I don't know how much time passed between then and now, but here I sit surrounded by my brothers waiting to be chosen, to be given my chance to live.
I am still a young creature, firm and green like my brothers. I know that now, in the Choosing Place, is a critical time for us. If we are allowed to age on these shelves, we will die uneaten. Our coats will rot and we will turn to slime and there will be only regret and despair until there is nothing more. Our lives will be a waste.
We are thrown carelessly into a basket by a Peeler, all of my brothers and I. I am filled with joy to know that we have passed this critical test. We circle the Choosing Place as distant cousins and foreign things are thrown into the basket next to us. We come to the Gates of Freedom in the Choosing Place and the Handler puts us in bags for the Peeler.
Tagged banana, creative writing, death, domestic abuse, drama, fiction, flash fiction, poverty, random, short story, stripper, weird, writing
You know who I am. I'm the person no one likes. I'm the person no one wants to sit with at lunch. I'm the person who everyone knows is bad news. I'm the one person that you will always hate, even if you don't know my name. I'm the freak, the loser, the weirdo. The one who's different. I'm the one who no one will ever give a chance. The one who just can't take it any more.
And you know what? I'm everywhere.
And you know me. Don't pretend like you don't. I'm the girl you tease because I still have braces. I'm the boy you shove in lockers just because I can't fight back. I'm the girl you call a lesbian just because you don't like me. I'm the boy you strip naked and tie to a goal post just because you want to have a little fun.
Because, really, we're all just having a bit of fun. That boy you spit on for four years straight is having a real laugh with his therapist. That girl you teased until she took a blade to her wrist will smile proudly as she shows the scars from when she tried to take her own life. Its all just fun. Nothing serious, just a little joke.
That's the problem with the world. Teenagers shouldn't be taken seriously, as everyone knows. We don't know anything. We're just hormonal. There isn't anything for us to be depressed about, we're just kids. We can't be so pressured to get into good schools and make good money that we have mild psychotic breaks, because our moms still cook us dinner every night. Our problems aren't real, because we're the children of middle class families. Our fears are simply foolish, because what we fear is nothing compared to the horrible reality of life. Our tears don't matter, because a little name calling isn't enough to knock the earth off it's axis. Our love isn't real, because we haven't lived yet. We haven't lived yet, and some of us won't live at all.
That's how many teenagers will kill themselves each year. But its not that bad, right? It could be worse, right? It could be 5500, or 6000, or 8000, right? There are billions of people in the world, so 5000 doesn't matter, right? No one liked those 5000 kids anyways. They were just the kids who had bad hair and wore the wrong clothes and talked with a lisp and couldn't play sports. They're just the boy you make fun of and the girl you trip in the halls.
That's a much bigger number, right? That's the number of teens who try to kill themselves each year. Do you know how big a number that is? No? Think of Wyoming. The state. Look it up. See how big it is? About 500000 people live in Wyoming.
But its okay. No one really likes that state anyways. It's nothing compared with California, Pennsylvania, or even Idaho. Wyoming is just a nothing little state. It's unspectacular in every way. No one would even notice if everyone from Wyoming just died.
Excuses.
Would anyone notice if you died? Would the football team be able to find a new running back? Would the cheerleaders be able to complete their pyramid? Would your funeral be filled with crying friends and family? Would that girl that hates herself so much that she starves herself be missed? Or how about that boy who everyone is nice to, just nice, not friendly, because they all think he's going to come to school with a gun?
Are you going to take teenagers seriously now?
I know I'm not. We're just a bunch of whiners. I can't think about killing myself without picturing someone saying how dramatic I was by jumping off the bridge. Or hanging from a tree. Or laying on the floor with an empty pill bottle in my hand.
Isn't it sad that down to my death I'm thinking only of what others think of me? I can only think about if maybe someone will talk to me or even smile at me or even wave at me just so that I could have a little hope. Shouldn't I be able to go through life a strong, singular person?
No. I shouldn't wait for friends or life or happiness. I should be that strong person and take matters into my own hands. I know how to stop the name calling. I know how to stop people from stepping on me. I know how to make just about every unpleasant thing in my life stop.
By stopping my life.
So here's my plan. I'm not going to take anyone down with me. If someone else wants to stop their hurting, they'll have to have the guts to do it themselves. No, what I'm going to do is make as many people hurt as possible. Not physical hurt, mind you. Just guilt. Remorse. Sadness.
I want you to feel as bad I do. I want everyone to read this. I want you to go to bed at night wishing that you could die too because it was you who killed me. You are the knife that cuts my wrist. You are the rope that stops my breath. You are the bullet that blasts through my brain.
Oh my. A gun. I wonder if I could get that into school.
So, will you take things seriously? I wouldn't if I were you. I mean, 5000. That's it. Today, I'll be one of those 5000. You won't see anyone at my funeral. You won't see anyone asking me why I did it. You won't see anyone missing me.
You'll just see yourself in the mirror. Can you see yourself now? Look at that face. The face that everyone loves. That is the person who helped kill me. With your hate. With your actions. With your words.
Fat. Ugly. Freak. Faggot. Idiot. Spaz. Weirdo. Douchebag. Slut. Dumbass. Whore. Moron. Bastard. Twat. Skank. Dipshit. Asswipe. Asshole. Dult. Fatass. Bitch. Dork. Pussy. Jackass. Loser. Loser. Loser. Loser. Loser.
So after reading this, go to the empty classroom on the third floor. I'll be there. I'll be there and I'll be waiting to burn the image of my dead body into the mind of all the students in the school. Has someone, a teacher perhaps, stopped people from going in? Push past them. Push into the classroom to see me dead. A real live dead person. Is there a lot of blood? And I a swinger? How did I do it? I don't know yet. But you'll know. You'll know and you'll remember it forever. Are the cops there yet? Did someone call the police? Did anyone scream? Faint? Puke? I bet you'll faint if you haven't seen me yet. You big chicken. Go look at me. I can't hurt you. I'm dead as dead as dead. Someone trying to keep you out again? Tell them I sent you. I want you to look at me, no matter what! I want you to help everyone else get a look at me too. Step right up, folks, and see a real dead person! No gimmicks, no scams, and it's only five dollars!
Just kidding. I won't take your money. You can't buy anything when you're dead.
If you're having suicidal thoughts please call 1 (800) 273-8255, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
This is a complete work of fiction.
Tagged bully, bullying, death, depression, fiction, flash fiction, high school, mental health, short story, suicide, suicide note, teenagers
Original Fairy Tales – The Pretty Girl and The Ugly Girl
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There were once two sisters, both the daughters of a poor cobbler. One sister was very pretty, the prettiest girl in all the land, and her name was Aurora. The other was very ugly, uglier than the ogres that ate wandering travelers, and her name was Aria. These two sisters were the best of friends, and neither of them wanted anything to do with the other children of the town, for they only wanted to befriend Aurora for her looks and Aria they despised.
However, it came to be that the girls grew to be young women, and Aurora became tired of her sister's presence. "Your ugly face gives me pain," Aurora said one night, "and you are as boring as wood. I will go make pretty friends and we will flirt with the boys in town. It is too bad that you are too ugly to join us."
Aria locked herself in her room and cried for hours after this, for Aurora was her only friend, and she loved her. A mouse crept into the room while she was crying and said, "Aria, why do you cry?"
"My sister has called me ugly," she replied, "and said that I am boring."
"I think that you are beautiful," the mouse replied. "And not at all boring."
"But you are just a mouse, what do you know of such things?"
"I know much. Can you sing for me?" Aria nodded and dried her tears, and she sung for the little mouse. "You have a beautiful voice, my dear Aria, but could you match it with an instrument?" the little mouse asked.
"My father has a flute," Aria said.
"Then go fetch it," the mouse said. Aria did as she was told, but when she blew into the flute it produced so horrible a screech that the mouse had to cover its ears.
"See, I'm good at nothing," Aria said, and she began to cry again.
"Don't cry, my dear Aria," the mouse said. "I will come back tomorrow and bring you a better instrument, and I will teach you to play it, and then no one will be able to say that you are boring." Aria said goodbye to the mouse and went to bed, still saddened over her sister's insult.
"I am going out to flirt with boys," Aurora said the next morning. "It is too bad that you are too ugly to join us. Thomas is going to buy me flowers," and she flounced out the door and left her sister behind. Again, Aria locked herself in her room and began to cry.
"Aria, why do you cry?" the mouse asked when he'd crept in once more.
"My sister has called me ugly, and said that a boy is going to buy her flowers. No boy will ever buy me flowers."
"I would buy you flowers, if I were a real boy," the mouse said. "But for now, all I have for you is this harp. Would you play it, please?" the mouse asked. Aria took the harp and began playing, and it produced the most wonderful sound. From his workshop, her father heard, and he came up to see where this beautiful sound came from.
"Daughter, who knew you could play music so beautifully!" he said.
"And she can sing!" said the mouse.
"Oh daughter, won't you play with me?" the man asked. "Not since your mother passed have I played music with another."
"Yes, Father," Aria said, and as her father played his flute she sang and played her harp, and it was a fun song that set the mouse to dancing, which caused both the father and Aria to fall about laughing.
The next minute, the door opened, and Aurora called that she was home. "I must go great my beautiful daughter," her father said, and he kissed Aria on the forehead and left the room. This saddened Aria, so the mouse began dancing again, which did cheer her.
"I played music and sang with him, yet his favorite is still Aurora," Aria said. "Nothing will ever match her beauty."
"Do not fret," the mouse said. "Tomorrow I will come back and teach you to cook. If it is your father's love you want, good food will surely earn it." Aria said goodbye to the mouse and went to bed.
"I am going out to flirt with boys," Aurora said the next morning. "It is too bad that you are too ugly to join us. David is going to buy me a new dress. It will be green, like my eyes," and she flounced out the door. Again, Aria ran and locked herself in her room and began to cry.
"Again, dear Aria, why do you cry?" the mouse asked.
"A boy is going to buy my sister a dress to match her eyes. No boy will ever buy such things for me," she said.
"Cry not," the mouse said, "for what do dresses matter with a voice such as yours?" And the mouse crawled into her hand and laid in her palm a flower, a tiny blue flower that matched her eyes.
"Oh, thank you, Mr. Mouse, that is so very sweet of you," Aria said.
"And now you shall learn to cook! Quick, we must run to the market and buy ingredients for dinner. It will be the finest meal your father has ever eaten!"
"But the girls will make fun of me if I go into town," Aria replied.
"You cannot fear such silly girls," the mouse said. "If any of them make fun of you, I shall jump out and scare them." And so the pair of them went to town and bought the things for their dinner. One girl did tease Aria, but she was so startled when the mouse jumped out at her that she spread the word that Aria was guarded by a fierce beast, and so the mean girls avoided her and she was happy.
"Daughter, what is all this?" the father asked when he came in from work to see a full table.
"I baked you dinner, Father, for I love you."
"Thank you, daughter. And will you play for me while I eat?"
"I shall!" And so Aria played on her harp and sang while the mouse rested on her shoulder and her father ate.
"I declare, this is the best meal I've ever eaten! Where did you learn to cook like this?" But just as he asked this, Aurora walked in in her new green dress, and so their father became distracted and Aria took her harp back into her room.
"Still he loves her more, though I cooked him a fabulous meal and played and sang for him," Aria said.
"Do not fret," the mouse said, "for tomorrow I shall come back and teach you to sew, and you will sew such pretty things that they shall outshine any dress that your sister wears."
And so it was that every day the mouse came and taught Aria some new skill, for each morning Aurora would brag of her plans and Aria would grow sad, then the mouse would show up and she would be happy again. He taught her to dance, to garden, to make a fire, to mend a wound, to make a doll, to fix a roof, to skin a rabbit, to paint, to clean a house, to help her father in his shop, to manage money, to calm a horse, and to make a crying baby smile.
After all of this, Aurora came to breakfast and said, ""I am going out to flirt with boys. It is too bad that you are too ugly to join us. William promised me a kiss."
Aria ran up to her room and locked it, but she did not cry, for the mouse was already there. She told the mouse what her sister had said, and cried, "Oh, if only a boy would promise me a kiss! I shall never be pretty enough for that!"
"You could kiss me instead," the mouse said.
"But you are just a mouse! Oh, but you are my dearest friend. Very well, Mr. Mouse, crawl into my hand," she said. The mouse did as he was told and Aria brought him up to her mouth and kissed him on the head. In an instant, he transformed into a man, and since he was very naked she turned away and hid her eyes. When she turned back he was gone, and she cried for the loss of her friend.
The next morning, Aurora said, "I am going out to flirt with boys, it is too bad-" and she was then interrupted by a knock on the door. Aurora said, "It must be Logan, ready to take me on my walk!" but instead it was an old man who wished to speak to their father. Their father was brought forth from his workshop and the old man introduced himself.
"I have two sons who I need to marry. Both have large farms, and both are very wealthy. I heard that you have two beautiful daughters eligible for marriage, and I have come to meet them."
"You are mistaken," the cobbler said. "I have two daughters, but only one of them is beautiful."
"Nonetheless, may my sons and I come in?" the old man asked. The cobbler agreed and the three men came in. One son was tall, strong, and very handsome. The other was fat, short, and smelled of pigs. Both of them smiled at the girls.
"I am Wilson," said the fat son.
"And I am Gregory," said the handsome son.
"I will marry you, Gregory," Aurora said, going to his side. "Wilson, if you shall have my ugly sister, both of you will have found your brides, and no longer shall we want for husbands."
"Wait just a second," Gregory said. "Before I chose you as my wife, can you sing?"
"No," Aurora said. "Of course not, but I'm beautiful."
"Oh. Can you play an instrument?"
"No, but I'm beautiful."
"Hmm. Can you cook? Sew? Dance? Make a fire? Skin a rabbit? Fix a roof? Make a crying baby smile? Mend a wound? Manage money? Clean a house?" Gregory asked.
"No," Aurora said. "Why would I need to do any of that when I am beautiful?"
Gregory turned to Aria. "And you?"
"I can do all of those things, sir."
"And can you calm a horse?"
"And paint?"
"And make a doll?"
"Aria, it would be a pleasure if you would be my wife," Gregory said.
"No, sir, you are far too handsome for me. Marry my sister instead. You will have beautiful children."
"It is you that I chose," he replied, "and my name is Gregory, not sir." He bent down and whispered, "And you may also call me Mr. Mouse." Aria's eyes widened at this, and she accepted his proposal. This upset Aurora greatly, for she was the beautiful sister, and so she deserved the handsome husband.
"I will not marry this ugly man," Aurora said, stomping her foot. Wilson lowered his head at this, for it saddened him to be shamed so, and he had not the time to shed a tear before an old woman appeared in the room.
"Grandmother," the cobbler said, "what business do you have with us?"
"It is your daughter that I've come for," the old woman said. She turned to Aurora and spit at her. "You shame your beautiful, for your insides are rotten. You've been blessed with a pretty face, yet you throw this gift away and act like a pig. Well, a pig you shall become, and not until you can secure the kiss of one who loves you will you be freed." And the old woman disappeared in a puff of smoke, and behind she left a squealing pig where Aurora had been.
"Oh, my poor daughter, my beautiful daughter," the cobbler said, starting to cry. "Now I will have to build a pen for her!"
"That was the same witch who turned me into a mouse," Gregory whispered to Aria. "There may be a hope to save her."
"Oh please, won't someone kiss me," Aurora squealed from her place on the ground. "I can't bear to live as a pig for a single second longer. I am uglier than a frog, uglier than my sister."
"Aurora," Aria said, getting down on her knees. "We had been the best of friends. Why did that change?"
"Because, Sister, I wronged you, and now I shall forever live as a pig. Wilson, won't you kiss me?"
"I love you not, little pig," Wilson said, for he was still not over her insult.
"Oh, Sister, I am sorry for calling you ugly, and you too, Wilson. Truly, I am the ugly one, and forever shall I stay like this. It is time I go outside and live in the mud, where pigs belong."
"Wait, Sister," Aria said, "though you have made me cry many times, I accept your apology. You will always be my sister, and I love you." Aria kissed the little pig on her snout, and a human girl she was once again. The cobbler gave her his coat to hide her nakedness, and once she had put on a proper dress she agreed to marry Wilson.
Side-by-side the sisters lived, and together they raised their families. Each day they'd have lunch together and talk about their day, and again they were best friends, and lived happily ever after.
Tagged children, children's story, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, morals, original fiction, short story, writing
Let the music carry us away
Source: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/vintage-radio-marco-oliveira.html
There's a girl floating in a back-country creek
In an old patched inter-tube bleached by the sun
Just a lazy Sunday to relax and enjoy
She looks up as the clouds pass by
Such beauty in such a simple thing
Who doesn't look at the sky and feel joy?
Whether it be clear skies of blue or the excitement of a storm
Or the vast dark skies filled with twinkling lights of distant lands
"In the summertime, when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky"
Music drifts to her ears from a worn radio
She hums along to an old song her mother used to sing
Just a sweet little melody about the summertime
The girl enjoys the sun now and soaks it in
Her skin darkens as sweat rolls off into the cool water below
The sun makes rainbows in the water, reflecting enchanting beauty
Little minnows dart back and forth, going about their day
The girl allows herself to drift further downstream
The music grows fainter now
"We love everybody but we do what we please
When the weather's fine
We go fishing or go swimmin' in the sea"
Laughter is carried on the wind from a group of men fishing
The girl closes her eyes and allows luck to guide her past their lines
She's drifted farther than she ever has before
The breeze is picking up, blowing cold against her skin
The trees rustle and she enjoys the music of nature
Water rushing, wind blowing, birds chittering gossip
The trees clack together from the fierce wind
You got women you got women on your mind"
The breeze has grown freezing cold
The girl shivers as she drifts down the creek
The cold hands reach out and claw at her, tearing her flesh
The tube deflates and she's pulled under the water
She can't breath, she's gasping for air
She can't hear anything but her own struggle to reach the surface
Her lungs burn and her skin sear as the fish slice at her skin
"We're always happy
Life's for livin' yeah, that's our philosophy"
There's yelling now, telling the girl what to do
The radio in the corner plays on, the singer chipper and relaxed
The girl turns over on the bed, begging for it to be over
She smells blood and sweat, then the breath of her abuser
He's on her again, digging his nails into her skin
He brutalizes her until he's satisfied and leaves her to her tears
She reaches under her bed for help
The white powder will make all her pain go away
One good sniff and she's drifting down the creek again, humming along to the radio
"Sing along with us
Dee dee dee-dee dee
Dah dah dah-dah dah
Yeah we're hap-happy"
The song, for anyone who doesn't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
Tagged abuse, drugs, fiction, music, poem, poetry, prose, rape, summer, writing
Friday Fiction – Doctor's Demise
Source: http://randalrauser.com/
You are sitting across from one of the most dangerous super villains in modern times. His arms and legs are chained to his seat, and his blindfold is made of lead. He has been given a strong dose of a medicine known to repress superpowers. If it wasn't for the fact that you'd felt the drug's affect firsthand, you would not consent to be in a room with this man.
"Tell me, Arnold, why you started killing people," you say. Arnold remains silent. He struggles silently against the chains surrounding him, but they don't budge. Arnold is a tiny, ugly man who has no hopes of breaking out of prison now that he has been caught. "Well? Was it something someone did? Did they push you over the edge? Make you mad? What was it, Arnold?"
"I will not respond to that name," he replies. You nod.
"Very well, Asphyxi. Will you answer my question now?"
"Of course." He grins. His teeth are yellow. Luckily, the blindfold means that you don't have to hide your look of disgust. "My first kill wasn't a who."
"Come again?" you ask.
"It wasn't a who, but rather… a what. You're asking the question wrong."
"Fine. What was your first kill?" you ask. It had not been your original question, but you'd take what Arnold was willing to share.
"My sister's puppy," he says. He is smiling, as if caught in fond memory. "She'd just gotten in as a present from our grandmother. Grandmother had never given me any gifts, so I'd tried stealing the puppy into my room one night. I got mad when he wouldn't listen to any of my commands, when he so obeyed my sister, and all of a sudden he stopped breathing. It was the first time I'd used my powers."
"And how old were you?"
"Six, I believe."
"That's an uncommonly young age for someone's powers to manifest."
"But then again, there's nothing common about us, is there, Doctor?" Arnold is grinning again. You have the feeling that he can see right through his blindfold, though that would be impossible.
"How do you know who I am?" you ask calmly. Doctor had been your superhero name. You'd had a brief stint with the local superheroes– flying around on Arrow's back and covering for Bolt when raiding evil lairs– but you'd quickly grown tired of using your powers in such a way. It wasn't exactly evil, as you'd been helping the heroes, but it still left you feeling ill inside.
Your power is the ability to give or take away the madness within a person. Since you hadn't been cut out for a superhero– nor a super villain, for that matter– you retired your mask and buckled down for eight years of schooling until you could call yourself a Psychologist. You immediately began work at a mental institution. Innumerable people had been cured under your care, and you were able to work anonymously.
That is, unless the local league of superheroes decided to call in a favor. As they had been the ones to pay for your schooling, you couldn't possibly turn away their request.
"Oh, please. I've killed hundred, and yet I'm not in jail yet? They tie me up and have me interrogated first? Do you think I'm an idiot?"
"Interrogation is standard for new prisoners," you say.
"I'm sure it is. This kind of interrogation isn't, however. Except for Ooze, perhaps. She was one mean son-of-a-bitch."
You look at Arnold. "Let us return to the topic at hand."
"Of course. So would you like to talk about the first person I killed, then? Because the puppy wasn't the only animal I'd done away with."
"Yes. The first person, please," you say, rubbing your temples. Arnold is a psychopath, no doubt about it.
"I don't know her name, of course, because I just hired her off the street. May have called herself Ruby, or Scarlett, or something like that, 'cause she had bright red hair." He pauses. "We went behind a dumpster and she got down on her knees, but I choked her without even taking my pants down." His grin is savage. "I remember the feeling of it. I took the air out of her lungs, bit by bit, until she couldn't breath at all. She tried fighting me, but she didn't have the strength. I teased her a bit, letting her breath just before she was ready to pass out, but that grew old after a while. The fun in killing is seeing the life leak out of them, don't you agree?"
"I wouldn't know. I've never killed before." You glance at the guards in the corner of the room, the ones who'd been there silently the whole time. They look ready to beat the prisoner within an inch of his life. You know that they'd never been faced with a criminal such as Arnold. Their usual super villains had solid motives for killing. For him, it's just because he's a sick bastard.
"Oh, surely you have. I saw some of your tapes from your moonlighting days. (Nice spandex, by the way.) I watch the way you could just look at a person and scramble their brains. They'd be weeping and clawing at their eyes and talking to spirits in seconds. Didn't it ever tempt you to turn the whole world mad?"
"The world is mad enough as it is," you say. "I returned each of the villains I cursed back to their original state. I don't enjoy watching people suffer."
"What differences we have, Doctor," Arnold says. "Watching people suffer is what I live for."
"That's enough." The comment is directed at the guards who have taken a step closer to the madman. Arnold smiles up at you.
"What? Had enough? Am I too mad for you?"
"Don't worry. I can still help you." Your powers are greatest when making physical contact so you reach forward for Arnold's shoulder. He jerks backwards violently.
"I don't want your help," he hisses, and then it seems as if all the air is suddenly gone.
"A-Arnold." You struggle, grasping your throat and falling to your knees. The guards act the same way. The drug has either worn off or has no effect on the madman, for he is calmly releasing himself from his bonds while choking you to death. "Asph…yxi," you say, once he ignores you.
"Yes, Doctor? What have you to say?" Arnold asks. His hands are freed– you struggle to think how this could be happening– and he takes off the blindfold and stairs down into your eyes. You are curled up on the floor, now, still gasping for air that has fled the room. "How pitiful you look. And old, too. I confess I expected something else. Those tapes are outdated."
Stop this, you want to say, but you can't get the words out. Your vision is growing fuzzy. You wonder what has happened to the people monitoring the room.
"Goodbye, Doctor. You think any jail can hold me? You're wrong. All of you are so wrong."
You vision turns completely black, and then there is nothing.
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Tagged dark, death, fiction, flash fiction, interrogation, link up, madness, psychology, psychopath, short story, super villain, superhero, superpowers, writing
All is Black – Friday Fiction
The voices are back. Never left, in fact. They're always there, always whispering in my ear. Telling me nasty things. Telling me to hurt, telling me to die. They're screaming now, screaming that I'm worthless. I cover my ears, but their voices only grow. I scream, and someone grabs me. Someone real, more solid than my voices. I find the world to be fading, and the voices go with them.
All is black.
New voices, different from the others. Talking about the weather, about their medication. These voices don't bother me, not like the others do. These voices are connected to bodies, to people. People not unlike me. They sometimes talk about their own voices, during the times when we sit in a circle and talk about our feelings. But I never hear their voices, only the voices in my head.
A voice has asked me to move over, and so I do. My lunch tray slides across the table. Not paying attention, my tray knocks over another patient's water.
USELESS! PATHETIC! WORTHLESS! YOU CAN'T GET ANYTHING RIGHT! YOU CAN'T EVEN EAT WITHOUT MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF, YET YOU EXPECT TO LEAVE HERE ONE DAY? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? PATHETIC! YOU'LL NEVER BE A NORMAL PERSON!
The other voices try to calm me, try to stop my tears. They tell me that everything's alright, but I don't believe them. I can barely hear them over my voices. I grab at my head again to get them to stop, I'd do anything to get them to stop, and my food falls to the floor.
NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE! ALWAYS MAKING MESSES, ALWAYS INCONVENIENCING PEOPLE! WHY DO YOU STILL LIVE? YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BURDEN! PATHETIC! PATHETIC!
Voices in uniform grab me, tell me to calm. I listen as their drugs enter through their needle, that ever-present needle. Calm. So calm. The voices go away, the world goes away.
Lots of voices now, none of them my own. They're steady voices, gentle voices. Happy voices, some of them. There are artificial voices coming out of a box, laughing voices surrounding them. I'm on my own, sitting in the corner. Every once in a while a uniformed voice comes to check on me, make sure I'm okay, as if I've ever been okay.
The voices leave me alone, for I'm always alone, alone except my voices. My voices never leave me.
We're the only one you've got. You're alone. No one wants you. PATHETIC!Give up, why don't you? Look at you, sitting in a corner, talking to yourself. No one will ever love you. You're nothing but a burden. PATHETIC! Your family hates you, everyone hates you, you're a blight on the world.
I curl up in my chair, wishing the voices away. No one notices me. I look around and spot a table. An old, breaking table. Metal runs around the edges. Solid metal, sharp metal.
Look at that. Look at that! There's your chance. No one's looking. Come on, get up. See that bit? You can use it. Use it to end things. You want me to stop, don't you? You'll do anything to end the voices. I'll never leave you if you don't take it. Never! You'll always have me, you'll always be pathetic. PATHETIC!
Up I go, slowly, shuffling to the table. No one takes notice, I'm never noticed. I lean on the table, pretending to study the picture hanging on the wall behind it. My hand goes to the metal edge, the metal edge that slowly peals off and drops into my hand. It's thin, but sturdy. Twice as wide as my finger. I look around, but no one sees. I slip it into my underwear.
I turn to go back to my seat, to wait to be alone, but someone is behind me. An old voice. I don't stop in time, and I hit her. She falls down, her voice is all pain.
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT! PATHETIC! YOU'LL BE BETTER OFF DEAD! THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE BETTER OFF WITH YOU DEAD!
I fold into myself and whimper, my real voice crying out. Uniformed voices grab me, but I twist away. I don't want them to take my secret weapon, my way out.
CAN'T YOU CONTROL YOURSELF? YOU'VE MESSED EVERYTHING UP! DO YOU THINK YOUR LIFE IS WORTH LIVING? NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE! PATHETIC! Pathetic! Pathetic…
Alone in my room, I wake slowly. It's night. Real darkness. I feel something in my underwear, the piece of metal. The voices start again, but they're quiet. They're edging me on, not forcing me. Not yet.
You know you want to… Come on… Do it!… You know you want to…
I feel around the metal, finding the jagged edge where it broke away. It lightly touches the tender skin of my wrist. Pressing, not cutting. I stare at it.
Do it! Do it now! Before you're caught! Before you mess up again! What are you waiting for? This is what you want! This is what you need! You have to die! If you don't die, you'll never be free of me!
I hesitate, studying the veins of my arm.
PATHETIC! CAN'T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT? YOU'RE WORTHLESS! NO WONDER YOUR PARENTS NEVER LOVED YOU! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT! PATHETIC!
I press harder, the metal cuts into my skin like it's not there. But it is there. I feel it splitting, feel the metal sinking in. I hiss and close my eyes.
Good! Keep going! You're so close! DO IT! END IT! NOW! NOW!
I drag the metal along. Suddenly, I'm soaking. Blood everywhere. Pain everywhere. My arm hurts. It hurts so much. I hurt so much.
Almost there, keep going! You're so close! Almost!
The other wrist now, this one more difficult. Both arms cut open, the metal falls to the floor. Tears mix with blood. I'm getting dizzy now, getting tired. But I've always been tired. So tired, so weary.
Good… good… It won't be long now… You've done good…
My eyes close, the world fades in and out. Distantly, so far away, I hear panicked voices. Lots of them. I don't care. They aren't my voices.
I slip further away. I hear nothing, I see nothing, I am nothing. No pain, no voices; nothing. Nothing. Sweet nothing.
Tagged depression, fiction, flash fiction, link up, mental health, short story, suicide, writing


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La iglesia de Santa María es un edificio de culto católico ubicado en la localidad de Torregutiérrez, barrio o arrabal del municipio de Cuéllar, en la provincia de Segovia, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León.

Se trata de una construcción levantada a finales del siglo XVI o comienzos del XVII. Destaca en su volumen la torre, realizada en mampostería para el cuerpo y sillería para las esquinas, aunque después de su remodelación hace no muchas décadas quedó rematada de ladrillo visto, entorpeciendo el conjunto.

En el interior conserva un cristo gótico y una virgen románica revestida, que tiene advocación a la Nuestra Señora del Rosario, patrona de la localidad, cuya festividad se celebra el primer fin de semana de octubre con una procesión por las calles de la localidad.

También destaca la pila bautismal gallonada, el armonio y varias estelas funerarias repartidas por los alrededores, en el espacio que fue utilizado desde la Edad Media como cementerio de la localidad.

Bibliografía
SEGOVIAYPROVINCIA.COM, Segovia, 2006. ISBN 84-96145-57-3

Maria
Iglesias de Castilla y León del siglo XVI
Sexmo de Cuéllar
Torregutierrez

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The keys to sustainable competitive advantage are seldom embedded in a Knowledge Management (KM) Framework. The ephemeral and dynamic nature of knowledge, (especially in the health care sector, tourism, financial services, and the education sector), often diminishes the imperative to plan for sustainable economic growth. In fact, a systemic lack of understanding regarding sustainability and its deployment in practice has often resulted in tokenistic references to sustainable strategies and objectives. Dr. Allam Ahmed and Mr. Mohamed Elhag have created an innovative Smart KM Model to promote both KM and its sustainability. The SMART KM Model integrates rigourous suite of elements that can drive organizational performance and excellence. The framework is quite simple, as compared to many KM frameworks that are currently in vogue. Moreover, the volume of case studies described by the authors provides a rich knowledge base for new professionals who need to become quickly familiar with examples of KM deployments. Dr. Ahmed and Mr. Elhag begin many of the chapters with the questions that often vex new KM managers, sponsors, and stakeholders. Such an approach helps to guide the reader into greater insight about the knowledge-based economy, organizational learning, KM integration, culture, strategic alignment, transformation management, and governance. An easy to grasp KM lifecycle furnishes the foundation for discerning the four stages: 1) initiation, 2) development, 3) deployment and business change management, and lastly, but most importantly, 4) sustainability. Useful checklists are provided throughout to direct the reader in the pragmatic application of the Smart KM Model. Finally, the Business Components Chapter outlines significant best practices and lessons learned for the reader in order to help the reader avoid barriers and embrace successful processes. My business and MBA learners will benefit immensely from this significant addition to the KM Body of Knowledge (BOD).


#116 - Into the Nexus: "Get Your Gul'dan!"
On Into the Nexus #116 Garrett and Kyle had to prepare themselves for a lot of talking because the patch that went up on the PTR this week is a massive one! The ITN duo dove into their first impressions on Gul'dan, the massive amount of buffs, nerfs, and reworks, how much the lane game is going to change, and shared overall thoughts on if this many changes are good for the game.
Come on out to CreateCon in Orlando, Florida on July 30th to see a live recording of Into the Nexus. For tickets and information check out http://CreateConvention.net.


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When Joey King went to the premiere of her upcoming Hulu show The Act, she didn't anticipate watching the entire thing through her fingers, but the role was so personally and professionally momentous that she couldn't bear to watch herself with clear, open eyes. "I was sitting in a room full of people that I knew, but I was sweating the entire time. I was so nervous—I'd never felt so vulnerable about a performance before." The show, based on a real-life story of Gypsy Rose (played by Joey) and Dee Dee Blanchard (played by Patricia Arquette), explores the dark and disturbing dynamic between a teenage girl who wants to live a normal life and a needy, over-bearing mother who suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy and intentionally makes her daughter ill.
Although Joey's been acting since she was four, she rose to global fame nearly overnight after the release of the unexpected Netflix hit The Kissing Booth, a feel good teenage romantic comedy. Prior to The Act, playing a typical teenager who navigates friendships and relationships in the gauntlet that is high school had been commonplace for Joey but she was dying to try something different, to lose herself completely in a character. "As an actor, we dream of doing things that take us out of our comfort zone that we never thought we'd get the opportunity to do—wear fake teeth, shave my head, sit in a wheelchair, and study someone else's movements. As an actor, it feels so good to do something like that."
Joey joins Off Camera to talk about why getting fired from her first pilot was a blessing in disguise, where she got her gift for tapping into emotions on command, and how she uses her social media platform (and her nearly 9 million followers) for the good of humanity and for changing chicken corsage protocol at KFC.

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Taylor Russell joined RJA in 2015 after completing his Master in Finance degree from Princeton. Prior to that, he was an analyst at BlackRock and a mathematics teacher at Northfield Mount Hermon School. He holds an Sc.B. from Brown in Applied Mathematics-Economics.


The summer after my first year of teaching I packed up my old Toyota 4Runner with my camping gear, fly rods, and books on tape. Then I headed west to Grand Teton National Park where I spent weeks hiking and fishing. It was a place I had wanted to see since I was a little kid thumbing through National Geographic and Backpacker magazines in the Robertson Elementary School library. Today, kids can be inspired by browsing through Google Earth's tours of 31 U.S. National Parks.
This morning Google announced the launch of a new series of tours available in the web browser version of Google Earth. You can access the list of tours here and then select the park that you want to visit. Each tour features a series of images and information cards to scroll through. At each stop in the tour you can use Google Earth's navigation tools to zoom, scroll, and pan through the views.
You can share a specific Google Earth view with your students by clicking on the share icon on the lefthand side of the screen. Google Classroom users will have an option to share a view directly to their Classrooms. Other users can simply copy a link and paste it wherever they would typically share links. Watch my video below to learn how to share Google Earth views to Google Classroom.
Eat & Move-o-Matic by the Learning Labs Game at New Mexico State University is a free iPad app intended to help teachers and students get a better understanding of the impact of their food choices.
The app runs on a simple premise. That simple premise is to show students how many calories are in their favorite foods and how many minutes of an activity they would need to do to burn those calories. The app shows students common activities like riding bikes, jumping on a trampoline, and doing homework. Students can scroll through the food menus and activity menus until they find their favorites in each category. The app provides tips nutrition tips about each food including how to make a snack a little bit healthier.
Eat & Move-o-Matic could be a good app for increasing students' awareness of the healthiness of their favorite snacks. Likewise, it is good for showing students the benefit of regular exercise.
This post originally appeared on one of my other blogs, Free Technology for Teachers.
Last week I spoke at the MACUL Conference in Detroit, Michigan. One of the talks that I gave was titled 5 Ways to Blend Technology Into Outdoor Lessons. You can view the slides here, but they're not worth much without my explanation of the key points. Those are outlined below.
Geocaching is an activity in which you use your mobile phone or a handheld GPS device to find hidden caches. You can find lists of caches in your area by logging into Geocaching.org and exploring the interactive map.
In digital mapping students can use Google's My Maps, Google's VR Tour Creator, ESRI, or Scribble Maps to create maps. All of those platforms will let students incorporate their own images and videos of interesting things they've found outside.
Students can also use Google's My Maps to plan safe running and biking routes.
Pokemon Go was the first popular, mainstream use of augmented reality in outdoor settings. With tools like Metaverse you and your students can create own educational augmented reality applications to use outside. I recently used Metaverse to create an Amazing Race game and a couple of years ago I used it to create a history mystery game.
Project Noah is a program that I have been promoting for years. It's a community-powered project (with some backing from National Geographic) in which users submit pictures and written observations of nature in their neighborhoods. There is a classroom version of Project Noah that provides projects for classrooms to complete together.
Does your class have a fitness goal? Perhaps a goal for a cumulative time spent playing outside in a week? Using Google Form along with a pivot table in Google Sheets is an easy way to track progress toward that goal. And starting in June you could use the Moki activity tracker to keep track of steps. Unlike activity trackers made for the general public, Moki doesn't use Bluetooth or GPS tracking.
I'll be talking about all of these ideas in much more detail in next week's Practical Ed Tech webinar, 5 Ways to Blend Technology Into Outdoor Lessons.
Wow! Garmin Fenix 3 is $180 Off!
Back in January I purchased the Garmin Instinct fitness watch. As I detailed here, I considered some other Garmin watches but they were all out of my price range. One of the watches on my preliminary list until I saw the price was the Fenix 3. At a list price of $499 the Fenix 3 was out of my price range which is part of why I ultimately purchased the Instinct. Amazon now has that watch listed at $319.
I don't at all regret buying the Garmin Instinct. Other than the minor annoyance of it or the Garmin Connect app not always syncing with Strava, I'm very happy with the Instinct. That said, if I could have gotten the Fenix 3 for it's current sale price, I would have jumped on it.
Should You Buy a Fitness Watch?
the decision to buy a fitness watch depends on your goals, needs, and budget. If you're just starting to work on your physical fitness, there are much better places to spend your money (better food, a trainer, yoga classes, fitness class). If you already have the exercise habit and want to improve your training, a fitness watch could help you get a little more out of your workouts and or create a little more accountability in your fitness habit.
When students read feedback on their written work, it can sometimes be hard for them to understand the tone of your comments. This is particularly true when the feedback is critical and the student is fairly sensitive. That's when hearing your voice can be helpful. A voice comment from you can help them understand the tone of the feedback you have provided.
Kaizena is a free tool that you can use to add audio comments to your students' written work. To add voice comments to Word documents and to PDFs. To do this you need to create a free account on the Kaizena website and use the Kaizena web app to create a "group" or list of students or other collaborators. Once you have done that you can create a conversation based around an uploaded Word document or PDF. In the following video I demonstrate how to add voice comments to a PDF.
For Google Docs users Kaizena has a free Google Docs Add-on that makes it easy to add voice comments to your documents and to the documents that students share with you. That Add-on is demonstrated in my video that is included below.


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Transthyretin Amyloidosis: Update on the Clinical Spectrum, Pathogenesis, and Disease-Modifying Therapies
Neurol Ther. 2020 Dec;9(2):317-333. doi: 10.1007/s40120-020-00210-7. Epub 2020 Sep 18.
Haruki Koike 1 , Masahisa Katsuno 2
1 Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. koike-haruki@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
2 Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
ATTR amyloidosis is caused by systemic deposition of transthyretin (TTR) and comprises ATTRwt (wt for wild-type) amyloidosis, ATTRv (v for variant) amyloidosis, and acquired ATTR amyloidosis after domino liver transplantation. ATTRwt amyloidosis has classically been regarded as cardiomyopathy found in the elderly, whereas carpal tunnel syndrome has also become a major initial manifestation. The phenotypes of ATTRv amyloidosis are diverse and include neuropathy, cardiomyopathy, and oculoleptomeningeal involvement as the predominant features, depending on the mutation and age of onset. In addition to variant TTR, the deposition of wild-type TTR plays a significant role, even in patients with ATTRv amyloidosis. The formation of amyloid fibrils tends to occur in association with the basement membrane. The thickening or reduplication of the basement membrane surrounding endoneurial microvessels, which is similar to diabetic neuropathy, is observed in ATTRv amyloidosis, suggesting that common mechanisms, such as an accumulation of advanced glycation end products, may participate in the disease process. In addition to direct damage caused by amyloid fibrils, recent studies have suggested that the toxicity of nonfibrillar TTRs, such as TTR oligomers, participates in the process of tissue damage. Although liver transplantation has been performed for patients with ATTRv amyloidosis since 1990, late-onset patients were not eligible for this treatment. However, as the efficacy of orally administered tafamidis and diflunisal, which stabilize TTR tetramers, was suggested in the early 2010s, such late-onset patients have also become targets for disease-modifying therapies. Additionally, recent studies of small interfering RNA (patisiran) and antisense oligonucleotide (inotersen) therapies have demonstrated the efficacy of these gene-silencing agents. A strategy for monitoring patients that enables the choice of an appropriate treatment from comprehensive and long-term viewpoints should be established. As many patients with ATTR amyloidosis are aged and have heart failure, they are at increased risk of aggravation if they are infected by SARS-CoV2. The optimal interval of evaluation should also be considered, particularly in this COVID-19 era.
Keywords: Angiopathy; Cardiac amyloidosis; Electron microscopy; Microangiopathy; Pathogenesis; Pathology; Protein misfolding disease; Schwann cell; Therapy; Ultrastructure.
H29-022/Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
17K09777/The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan


Snapchat is secretly testing a new line of location-specific filters in New York and Los Angeles.
The firm has been testing the feature on its iOS app, using the iPhone's GPS system to pinpoint users and show the filters.
For instance, Snapchat users who use the service in Brooklyn are shown a clear filter with the word 'Brooklyn' written in an artistic font, while those in New York's financial district can unlock filter featuring a shower of dollar bills.
Enthusiastic Snapchat users in New York show off their custom filters featuring the word 'Brooklyn', when in Brooklyn, and a sea of cash when pictures are taken near NYC's financial district.
Go to the app's settings menu, scroll down to 'Additional Services' and click 'Manage'.
Once there, ensure that you have the 'Filters' setting switched to 'on' and that you've given the app permission to pull your location.
Users in Manhattan's theater district receive a custom filter with the words 'Broadway' in yellow lights.
Other users have received customized filters around events such as Gay Pride.
The new smart filters don't offer any photo-editing effects, and are simply clear filters with a graphic overlay.
They look similar to they type of stickers that have been popularized by stand-alone photo editing applications.
The filters appear to be a hit with users of the service - although Snapchat has not yet acknowlegded their existence or officially launched them.
'Super cute snapchat filters based on your location the future is now' @juliacosette, one Snapchat user, tweeted.
'What is this new snap chat filter? I like it.' tweeted another user, @debzshin.
Snapchat currently doesn't offer sponsored filters, however the company did recently debut its first customized branded filter at Cannes Lions advertising festival.
Snapchat partnered with a publisher to add a corporate logo to snaps taken at a party along with the phrase, 'Yes we Cannes'.
It's easy to see how branded stickers and sponsored filters could become a potential revenue stream for the company, which isn't currently making money.
In February Facebook bought hugely popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion (£11.4 billion), after failing in a previous $3 billion to buy Snapchat.
At the start of April, Vine revealed its 'Vine Messages' service that enabled users to send messages to each other.
This directly followed once-popular social network Bebo's attempts to get back into the game with Blab, their own video messaging service.
Facebook, meanwhile, is busy trying to increase the profile of its Messenger app, with rumors that it will shift WhatsApp users onto its native messaging client.
Facebook announced a selfie feature for Messenger that makes it easier to send people pictures of yourself.
Instagram announced Instagram Direct, a direct messaging service last December.
In May, Snapchat released the ability to chat with friends in real time via messenger.
Brands such as Taco Bell and Rebecca Minkoff have sent out hundreds of snaps, and the ability to add their logo to Snapchat content could add extra legitimacy to their efforts.
Last December, the app released its first major update when it added its first line of filters along with a 'replay' function.
In May, Snapchat unveiled its own in-app instant messaging and video chat service.
Last week, the company announced it was testing a new group-sharing feature for concerts and live events called Our Story.
Both Apple and Facebook have released similar ephemeral messaging services in attempt to capitalize on Snapchat's runaway success.
Facebook released Slingshot, its own service for sending self-destructing messages to friends in mid-June.
Apple also added the ability to send self-destructing audio and video messages via iMessage.
To enable new smart filters, update the app, go to the app's settings menu, scroll down to 'Additional Services' and click 'Manage'.
Snapchat founder, Evan Spiegel, in the company's California headquarters.
The company is based in Los Angeles and is run by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, two former fraternity brothers at Stanford.
The service was first released in 2011 and quickly gained a following among high school students in Southern California.
The company does not reveal the number of people currently using its service, but says more than 700 million messages are sent each day.


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Charming and spacious top floor 3BR apartment in vintage building on amazing East Lakeview street. Close to lake, restaurants, boutiques. Hardwood floors, large living and dining rooms & eat-in kitchen. Sun-porch off kitchen can be used as second living room; shared yard. Heat, water, gas included in rent. Basement storage locker included. Washer and Dryer in basement.
Recent renovation of this 1BR/1Bth Coach House apartment in Vintage Bldg on lovely tree lined street in safe & walkable neighborhood. Small but updated unit features newer updated kitchen with dishwasher, large bath with tub & shower, bedroom with closet and side-by-side laundry is included. Great price in a great location. Available immediately. No pets preferred and street parking only.
Charming and spacious 3BR apartment in vintage building on amazing East Lakeview street close to lake, restaurants, boutiques. Hardwood floors, large living and dining rooms & eat-in kitchen. Sun-porch off kitchen can be used as second living room; shared yard. Heat, water, cooking gas included in rent.
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Beautiful Lincoln Park 2Bd/2Bth South facing corner unit in elevator building. Corner unit has windows on two sides with lots of light and downtown skyline views. High end finishes throughout. Gorgeous kitchen w/stainless steel Bosch appliances, large island w/seating for four. Granite countertops and tons of cabinets. Hardwood floors, recent custom window treatments & designer paint throughout. Living room features a beautiful stone fireplace and large balcony. Large master bedroom has walk in closet and spa master bath with double sink, soaker tub & separate shower. True laundry room provides plenty of extra storage. Easy access to CTA, Metra, 90/94. Close to Costco, Target, & new Mid Town Athletic Club. 1+ rated Prescott Elementary School & Lincoln Park High School. Indoor attached heated garage included in rent. Also available for sale for $459,000 incld garage space.


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Jamie Foxx is fired up about bringing back "Showtime at the Apollo." When Foxx took the stage at the Apollo in the Hamptons benefit at Ronald Perelman's East Hampton estate Saturday night, he announced that he'll be bringing back the variety show that ended its 21-year run in 2008. It included performances by professionals and amateurs who were sometimes booed off the stage, including Foxx as a young comedian. He said, "The Apollo did it long before 'American Idol,' except the audience were the judges." Foxx will executive-produce the show for BET. Other performers at the bash, which raised more than $1 million for Harlem education programs, were Alicia Keys, Jon Bon Jovi and Apollo legends Ben E. King and Bettye LaVette. Those in the audience included Matt Lauer, Richard Gere, LA Reid, Ron Meyer, Penny Marshall, Pharrell Williams, Jimmy Buffett, Google's Eric Schmidt, City Council Speaker Chris Quinn and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
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However as you know from my previous posts, 2018 is when I grab the bull by the horns! I'm motivated and excited to see what next year brings.
So if your not looking forward to January and for the holidays to finish just remember we have another season coming soon which means new styles, fresh fashion and a whole load of shopping!
Just to get you in the mood I'm giving you some snippets of what our high street brands have new in. Spring is looking sleek, sophisticated and bold with fresh colours and patterns.


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Can you believe it? I've NEVER been to a Cheesecake Factory till now. It's taken me 25 years to make a visit and taste their cheesecake. I've never seen the allure of huge slices of cheese cake and horribly prepared food. I've always just had that impression in my mind.
On our recent trip to Seattle, we stopped by Cheesecake factory for an early dinner. It was really early…it was so early, they still had their lunch menu. What can I say? We had a schedule to keep if we wanted to go shopping.
The place was huge, but there always seem to be a line up near the door. It's super packed during lunch and dinner.
Complimentary bread arrives and you have brown and white. We actually didn't touch the bread since we had to save our tummies for our meal and dessert. No need to waste space for plain bread.
M ordered himself a coke. Free refills!
Koreangirl got herself a lemonade. Free refills too!
Tomato, basil and cheese pizza ($11.95) from their lunch menu is pretty crappy. There's no tomato sauce, so it's just the 3 basic ingredients over the pizza dough. I will not order the pizza again.
The pizza did come with a salad. The salad was pretty good. No complaints. It had a balsamic vinegar dressing. I definitely enjoyed the salad a lot more than the pizza.
Famous Factory Meatloaf ($11.95) comes with 2 sides. M chose corn and mashed potatoes with gravy. The lunch size was still huge but the dinner size is even larger. M likes the portion for lunch as he could actually finish it.
Renee's Special ($10.95) comes with half a turkey sandwich, a cup of soup and a green salad. You definitely get a little bit of everything. The portion is large for lunch and its very filling.
Fettuccini with chicken and sun-dried tomatoes ($11.95) was ordered by Scarface and looked good.
30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake has layers of their original cheesecake, fudge cake and chocolate truffle cream. M gets this every time he comes here.
Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake ($6.95) has chocolate cheesecake with a layer of Belgian chocolate mousse and whipped cream.
Fresh Strawberry ($6.95) has the original cheese cake topped with glazed strawberries and whipped cream. It's been their top seller for 30 years. The strawberries were huge and fresh. I really liked it and its a good cake to share. The classics are always the best.
Overall, cheesecake factory is ok. It's a good price for their huge portions. I wouldn't come back for the food but cheesecake is worth it.


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REVIEW & GIVEAWAY of Seized by Love at Seaside by Addison Cole
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Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers features a group of fun, flirty, and emotional friends who gather each summer at their Cape Cod cottages. They're sassy, flawed, and so easy to relate to, you'll be begging to enter their circle of friends! All books can be read as stand-alone novels.
Seized by Love at Seaside by Addison Cole is the sweet edition of New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster's steamy romance novel Seized by Love. The stories and characters remain the same and convey all of the passion you expect between two people in love, without any explicit scenes or harsh language.
In Seized by Love at SEASIDE…
Lizzie Barber runs a successful flower shop by day and secretly hosts the Naked Baker webcast at night to help pay for her younger sister's education. To keep friends and family from finding out about her sexy secret, she's put her social life on hold until her sister's education is paid off and she can stop filming the webcast.
Blue Ryder fell hard for Lizzie when he met her a year ago, and he hasn't been able to get her off his mind since. Everything about the feisty little brunette, cuts straight to his heart. Though Lizzie has turned down every invitation he's extended--Blue is not about to give up trying.
Renovating Lizzie's kitchen brings Blue further into Lizzie's life, and the oven is not the only thing heating up. One night and one powerful kiss changes everything. But when Lizzie's secret is revealed and the safe bubble she's hidden in shatters, true love may not be enough to put the pieces back together.
Seized by Love at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seized by Love by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Blue and Lizzie are meant to be together. They have been circling each other, teasing each other, and loving each other for a year yet Lizzie refuses to date Blue. Together they make sense, they even each other out, they protect each other, and they belong together.
I have been curious about Blue since he was first introduced as a character in Seaside. When he met Lizzie he knew instantly that he wanted to know her better but he had his work cut out for him to win her over. I loved his persistence. He dealt with being put in the friend zone by Lizzie yet never gave up hope that she would come around to his way of thinking. There were a few times that I didn't love Blue's reaction to Lizzie's life decisions but he managed to redeem himself, to prove that he was deserving of loving Lizzie.
Lizzie has a secret and it is a big one. I liked that this secret was something that proved how giving, open hearted, and loving she was. While Lizzie struggled with this secret and knew that it could cause problems in her life with a boyfriend, her friends, and her family she wasn't willing to give it up or share it just to make her life easier. Even when the secret comes out she stays strong to herself.
Seized by Love at Seaside is part of the Sweet with Heat: Summer Series by Addison Cole. The books are fun, loving, and sweet without the language and the explicit scenes. I find myself devouring them and anxious for more from Addison Cole. I recommend picking up your copy and enjoying these wonderful and fun characters.
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Bestselling author Kurt Remington lives to write. He spends twelve hours a day in front of his computer, rarely leaving the seclusion of his beach-front property, where he's come to finish his latest thriller — that is, until free-spirited Leanna Bray nearly drowns in the ocean trying to save her dog. Kurt's best-laid plans are shot to hell when he comes to their rescue. Kurt's as irritated as he is intrigued by the sexy, hot mess of a woman who lives life on a whim, forgets everything, and doesn't even know the definition of the word organized.
Leanna's come to the Cape hoping to find a fulfilling career in the jam-making business, and until she figures out her own life, a man is not on the menu. But Leanna can't get the six-two, deliciously muscled and tragically neat Kurt out of her mind. She tells herself she's just stopping by to say thank you, but the heart-warming afternoon sparks an emotional and unexpectedly sweet ride as Kurt and Leanna test the powers of Chemistry 101: Opposites Attract.
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Bella Abbascia has returned to Seaside Cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, as she does every summer. Only this year, Bella has more on her mind than sunbathing and skinny-dipping with her girlfriends. She's quit her job, put her house on the market, and sworn off relationships while she builds a new life in her favorite place on earth. That is, until good-time Bella's prank takes a bad turn and a handsome police officer appears on the scene.
Single father and police officer Caden Grant left Boston with his fourteen-year-old son, Evan, after his partner was killed in the line of duty. He hopes to find a safer life in the small resort town of Wellfleet, and when he meets Bella during a night patrol shift, he realizes he's found the one thing he'd never allowed himself to hope for—or even realized he was missing.
After fourteen years of focusing solely on his son, Caden cannot resist the intense attraction he feels toward beautiful Bella, and Bella's powerless to fight the heat of their budding romance. But starting over proves more difficult than either of them imagined, and when Evan gets mixed up with the wrong kids, Caden's loyalty is put to the test. Will he give up everything to protect his son—even Bella?
Dreaming at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seaside Dreams by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Hearts at Seaside (Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers Book 3)
Jenna Ward is vivacious, spontaneous, and confident—except when she's around the man who stole her heart years earlier, strikingly handsome, quiet, and reliable Pete Lacroux. After years of trying to get his attention and overwhelmed from dealing with her mother's new cougar lifestyle, Jenna's giving up on Peter—and is ready to explore other men.
As the eldest of five siblings, with an alcoholic father to care for, boat craftsman Pete Lacroux always does the right thing and has no time for a real relationship. He's looking forward to seeing his friend Jenna, a welcome distraction who's so sexy and painfully shy that she equally entertains and confuses him.
When Jenna picks up a hard-bodied construction worker, jealousy ignites Pete's true feelings, and he's unable to ignore the desires for Jenna he never realized he had. But Pete's not the quiet guy he appears to be, and his life is anything but conducive to a relationship. Can Jenna handle the real Pete Lacroux—the most alpha male she's ever seen—or will she crack under pressure? And can Pete reclaim the life he once had without tearing apart his family?
Hearts at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seaside Hearts by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Sunsets at Seaside (Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers Book 4)
Jessica Ayers has lived a sheltered life with little more than cello lessons and practices taking up her day. Now a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she escapes the prim and proper symphony to vacation in the Seaside community in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, to determine if she is living life to the fullest or missing it altogether.
For the first time since developing the second largest search engine in the world, billionaire Jamie Reed is taking the summer off. He plans to work from the Cape and spend time with his elderly grandmother—and falling in love is not in his plans.
From the moment Jamie and Jessica meet, the attraction is white-hot. Once-overly-focused Jamie can think of little else than sweet, smart, and alluring Jessica, and Jessica discovers a side of herself she never knew existed. But when Jamie's business encounters trouble and his attorney and best friend intervenes, he proves that the brown-haired beauty is too distracting for Jamie. To make matters worse, it appears that Jessica might not be who she says she is, turning Jamie's life—and his heart—upside down. In a world where personal information is always one click away, Jamie must decide if he should trust his heart or watch the woman he loves walk away.
Sunsets at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seaside Sunsets by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Secrets at Seaside (Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers Book 5)
Tony Black is the hottest surfer on the planet. He travels the world throughout the year and spends his summers on Cape Cod with his friends, at the Seaside cottages in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He's got his choice of women, but Amy Maples is the one he wants. Fourteen years ago she was his for an entire summer, until a devastating accident changed everything, and what they had seemed like it had never existed—at least for her.
Amy Maples is as consistent as the day is long. She's spent summers on Cape Cod forever, she always does the right thing, and she's spent years trying to reclaim the heart of Tony Black, the only man she's ever loved. She's back for a summer of fun with her friends at Seaside, only this year she's been offered the opportunity of a lifetime thousands of miles away, and she's decided to try one last time to reconnect with Tony. But having a relationship with Tony means dealing with her past—and dealing with her past may knock her to her knees.
Secrets at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seaside Secrets by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
Nights at Seaside (Sweet with Heat: Seaside Summers Book 6)
Sky Lacroux has finally realized her dream and opened her own tattoo shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She's happy as can be, preparing the shop for its grand opening and renting a cottage in the Seaside community while renovations to her new apartment are being completed. The only thing missing is the one thing she longs for, and has no control over—love.
Sawyer Bass, a professional boxer, plays his guitar at a local bar to escape the painful reality of his father's deteriorating health and a recent health warning of his own. But when he spots a stunning brunette across the room, escaping reality goes out the window, and the beautiful woman becomes the focus of his next song—and maybe even the rest of his life.
When Sawyer walks into Sky's tattoo shop and sees the woman from the bar—Sky—the chemistry between them is instant. Sawyer is everything Sky could ever hope for in a man. He's honest, loving, sensitive, and potently virile—but boxing goes against everything Sky believes in. The closer they become, the more she realizes that her alpha boxer is waging his own emotional battle—only the battle she thinks he's waging isn't the one that threatens to tear them apart.
Nights at Seaside is the sweet edition of the steamy romance novel Seaside Nights by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.
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Addison Cole is the sweet alter ego of New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Melissa Foster. She writes humorous and emotional sweet contemporary romance. Her books do not include explicit sex scenes or harsh language. Addison spends her summers on Cape Cod, where she dreams up wonderful love stories in her house overlooking Cape Cod Bay.
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