The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank Go...
The guard thought about this for a few moments. When they first brought him here we did the standard strip search, no orifice overlooked.
That’s what’s called a ‘valley fill.’ What they fill it with the coal companies call ‘overburden.’ That’s basically everything they tore off the land: trees, soil, and rock that the coal companies swe...
That’s what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.
That’s about what most of us will get, thought Decker. And then we just live on in memories and fading pictures set on tables and hung on walls.
Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge. He read the names off the
Something always leads to something else. - John Puller
Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their...
Sheep follow blindly. We’re not supposed to be sheep.
Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.
People like to talk about other people’s misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn’t.
More guns! No guns! Second Amendment! Guns kill! No, people kill!
Min had innumerable questions, and Chung-Cha tried to answer them all as best she could. Is the Supreme Leader really three meters tall? I have never met him, so I do not know. They say he is the stro...
I’m not
It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.
In his trip to Bethlehem Mark Twain had reported that all sects of Christians, except Protestants, had chapels under the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. However, he also observed that one gr...
Important man, they say. Lot of important men in this world. But they die just like the rest of us. God’s way of making life fair.
Her face held the wonderful enthusiasm of youth as yet unblemished by life. That age was a nice time in anyone’s life. And it was necessary. To get through what was coming in later years. If we all st...
He didn’t like having to pay for a phone that had Internet access, but it was like having a huge library and an army of research assistants on the cheap. He
He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And