Stories tagged “origin”
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Gaea and Children
The Thunder ran through the house like a hyperactive two-year old. Which, of course, he was. Gaea looked up sharply, causing the mountain she was working on fill with magma. “Thunder!” She yelled out. Yelling was the only way you could get ...
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A Camp Out He'll Never Forget
“Dude, why were you just pissing in your gas tank?” “Oh, uh, heh. I didn’t think you could see that. I can, uh, well, my piss is flammable.” “Your piss…what? Did you just decide one morning to fill up your tank...
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Where Poets Come From (part one)
Poets are more than conceived. They are transformed to meet the eye of life. What do I mean by this? A poet has unparalleled depth and passion blazing inside of them throughout time, and they have the remarkable ability to convert that into words. The ...
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Where Poets Come From (part two)
So to conclude this matter, poets come from the deer prancing through the meadow, or the flower blooming in the field. Though many flowers may be blooming with it, there is no telling which of them will be picked. Poets can come from the sky, or even f...
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Myth
Sea and Moon were lovers once. They were one, moving through the nether, each completing the other, made for each other. Both knew they would be together forever, but it was not so. Moon and Sea soon found themselves near a new world neither of them ha...
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Myth 2: Electric Boogaloo
They remembered the moon. In those brief moments before the old gods most had forgotten stopped dreaming, when the moon fell and the ocean rose in anger, they remembered the moon. Not just that it existed, but what it meant. They remembered the times t...
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The Beginning
He lived in a cave just like everyone else. He liked to tell stories. He was single, so one night he stared sleeplessly at the stars, wondering how to increase his reproductive fitness. (It was still a big deal back then.) And he spun a tale to tell ev...