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181) The Key (A Fairytale) Only a Mild Interest- Chapter 10 - (Part 2)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Sahmad dispatched one of his attendants to summon a physician, while another stayed behind as an interpreter. Sahmad then instructed me to lie down, and he lit two large cones of incense, carefully placing them on my bare chest. He told me to concentrate on the pain that would soon come, as the incense burned down to my skin. He sat beside me quietly, as we waited for the physician.The doctor arrived quickly, and immediately listened to my heart. His face turned serious as he slowly s...
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182) Last Day in Ozark, Alabama (Short Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
1889-1890A day in Ozark, it would be the last day Joshua Jefferson would ever spend sin Ozark, Alabama; it was in November 24, of 1889. He was all of 86-years old, and in the 76-years he lived near Ozark, he had only been in the city a half dozen times, and to him that was enough, but his previous times, the times before this time, which would be the last time, was some forty-years ago, take or give five this or that way.Today, November 24, was his birthday, and he came down to...
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183) A Look at the Hulk Against Marvel Universe Gods - Hulk Vs Thor
Author:
Jj Jamson
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
We've seen the headlines: Hulk vs Superman, Hulk vs Wolverine, Hulk vs the Thing, and, basically, Hulk vs other superheroes. Classics that piqued our imagination. Who's the strongest? Who's the best fighter? Who'll win?Time and time again the Hulk has proven that he's more than a match to most, if not all, super heroes. But how does he fair against gods? Lucky for us, there are two gods in the Marvel comic book universe, one from Olympus and one from Asgard, who walk among mortals and...
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184) Actors on Acting - Part 1
Author:
Fernando Rio
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Whether you're starting out, or just thinking about becoming an actor, you're going to need to know how to break into the business and make a living as an actor! Chances are you've been sitting in a theater watching a movie, or at home watching TV, and the thought of you becoming an actor crosses your mind. Well my friend, you're not alone. Everyday thousands of people just like you dream of becoming an actor.But breaking into showbiz takes a little doing... let me correct that, a lot...
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185) Turning Back the Clock
Author:
Mike Greenhaus
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh--two of the original members of Mudcrutch alongside Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and later Benmont Trench--the band's reunion has been nothing short of a dream. And while the other three members have notched countless sold-out amphitheaters and arenas under their belts, not to mention this past Super Bowl halftime show, as The Heartbreakers, it's clear Mudcrutch has been revitalizing. We caught up with Campbell, Leadon and Marsh to hear how it was going half way through...
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186) The Peculiar Case of Judson Small (A Short Story, WWI)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(WWI, 1919, Part II of II)One morning, Lilly Ann Small, moved her chair up to the living room window for a long peaceful morning, gloating , not at the empty yard, since her husband had died in WWI, a year or so ago, it was now 1919, but on her new suitor, James Jason, who worked at the Huntsville, courthouse, he was an old boyfriend, one that didn't make the grade she had felt, one that was now contriving to ease her grieving pain by asking her to marry him. She watched the chickens...
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187) The Key (A Fairytale) Only a Mild Interest - Chapter 10 - (Part 1)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Sahmad began the secret instructions, "Close your eye and pay close attention so that you can precisely remember these directions. They are complicated but essential, and any deviation could prove disastrous. And remember; opening the centers should be done every time you begin your inner work."Start with a slow inhalation up the back and imagine it as a white ball of light, ending a few inches above the crown of your head. As you exhale, imagine the ball of white light above your hea...
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188) Full of Beans at Wallace Creek ((Adolescence) (1965, Chapter Fifteen, Summer of 1965))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Full of Beans at Wallace Creek
((Adolescence) (1965))Advance: In the spring of 1965, Wallace Creek was full of mud and cold cool fresh water, from the meltdown of a cold winter, when summer came the creek was flowing almost like the river it connected to, it was high; the sun likened to a fire from a winter's, plantation's hearth, which made for a great summer getaway down by the creek. Bees were buzzing, birds chirping, and dogs barking, and there was a warm wind that whirled its...
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189) Howard Stern - Yes, Him Again!
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Every so often I get an email, on Howard Stern, why I don't care for his kind of entertainment. I get actually both kinds of emails, negative and positive. Negative saying, I should like him, and how great he is, and I should not write about him negatively, which I have not for years, and positive folks saying: your right he is a bad news, bad entertainment, a bad example for our society, especially our kids.Years ago when I was writing for a website, I wrote several articles on him,...
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190) In a Dead Voice ((Vietnam, 1971)('Voices Out of Saigon'))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
((Story Fifteen) (March, 1971)
(Story told by Morgan, March 1986))Advance: Even to Sergeant Morgan Carter, he knew there were two sides to every man, even to him. One he could lay his life down for a county that did not appreciate his duty assignments, in a War that was not popular, as in his, that being, Vietnam, where he served five tours, or five years, even got two Bronze Stars for Valor, almost a Medal of Honor, for saving a man's life, in the middle of rocket fire, whereas...
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191) First Death (Sketch, Part of "The Last Plantaion, Series)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
First Death((for Langdon, Abernathy) (1956-1972))Occasionally, Jerome La Rue, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, had his friend from Elementary school over to his house, that being, Langdon Abernethy, to study for the next day's tests, or if it was a weekend, for Monday's tests.Jerome had a brother, Henry La Rue, two years older than he and Jerome being of the same age as Langdon.Jerome's father and mother (mother's name being Loretta) were split up, not divorced,...
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192) Granny's Palace
Author:
Glee Leah May Sanogal
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I felt dizzy when we got off the bus. I wanted to vomit but I hardly eaten anything. I haven't had breakfast yet. We left home too early in the morning and Mama just gave us milk. I didn't know how long the journey to grandmother's place took. I had fallen asleep despite the old morning breeze. I looked around and was greeted by the long cemented highway extended to the horizon. The sun was shining brightly in the east. There were some houses beside the highway but they were significantly ap...
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193) Wall-E a Hit with Fans and Critics
Author:
Robert Johnston
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
"The latest film from Disney and Pixar is proving to be a major success. There is a great amount of buzz among people who have seen it and, in general, all of the reviews have been spectacular. After seeing the film myself, I can see why.
WALL-E is about a delightful and utterly likeable robot in the year 2700. By that time, the planet Earth had been abandoned for centuries, and it is WALL-E's job to clean up the empty planet (he is basically a futurized trash collector). While he is wor...
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194) Josh's Christmas Fable (1962)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
"Lawd save us," Old Josh shouted, "here comes a bad wish, and everyone fell onto their backs and stomachs and everyone fell onto their knees, I swear they did, even onto one another, as the storm went through and picked them up, tossed them about, like cotton candy, they done rolled down hills, rolled up hills, tumbled like frogs off a lily pad into the water, picked them up like tornados do and done threw them every which place, that there wind did that, I swear it did... and all cus someon...
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195) Mayhem in the Countryside (1893, North Carolina - A Short Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Elmer Abernathy's StoryThe First house, the very first house, that really didn't look like a house, ever to sit on the Abernathy plantation property, was a shack with two rooms, and one room had a stove you fed with wood, that was back in 1853, when Elmer Abernathy was born, built by Aston Cole Abernathy (born 1771, died 1855), he built that shack in 1803, he would be Langdon's Great, Great Grandfather. Thereafter, Elmer, married a woman twice his age, and had a child by her, she name...
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196) 126-Men Over the Trench ((WWI, 1917-1918)(A Short Story))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
The three sergeants stood side by side in the trench, in the dim shade of the privates, the Ammo Humpers, a few corporals, that rushed artillery rounds across a field to the nearby trenches, two privates to a bomb, they also used donkey's when possible, they were part of a forty-four man platoon.The First Sergeant was a tall ugly heavy man, a Briton. And then there was the second sergeant, he was the Staff Sergeant of the Ammo Humpers platoon. And then there was the Buck Sergeant, he...
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197) Novice Off-Roading Adventures
Author:
Jennifer Bryan
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I really do not look like the typical off-roading, adventurous person. I'm just a 31 year old single mom of three children ages 10, 5 and 2. But I own a 1992 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4. It has a 3" lift, 31" Maxxis Buckshot Mudder tires, and Craggar Black wheels.Last year I owned a 2000 Mazda MPV minivan. My kids enjoyed it since it had a video player, but surprisingly they were not sad to hand it over to grandma and grandpa.In fact, all three of them are protective of "Princess."...
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198) Tricks For Everyone
Author:
Conroy Chiu
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Magic is as much fun to perform as it is to watch. You do not need a big audience: these tricks work best in a small group. The next steps give you hints on getting started and explain some useful skills and expressions.How to learn tricks
First choose one tricks you would like to learn, and try it our as you read the instructions. The pictures usually show the tricks from your point of view. Then practice the trick without the book. Once you have conquered one trick, start on ano...
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199) The Key (A Fairytale) Deeper in the Valley - Chapter 9 - (Part 3)
Author:
E. Raymond Rock
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
More years passed, and although the young man and I became the closest of friends, I could never tell him that his father was dead . . . or that I was the one responsible. All he could talk about was finding his father someday; he wanted so badly for his father to know that his only son had become a key seeker as well. I would have to tell the lad eventually, and then he would hate me, but I could never quite find the courage as each day we became more inseparable, akin to a father and son o...
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200) Life is Good - A Graceful Death is Not Too Bad Either
Author:
Benson Yeung
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Mrs Watson smiled at me. Her eyes were bright and calm, not the ones you expect to see on a dying patient. Her breast cancer had spread to her lungs and her spine. The chemotherapy was not working any more. She knew she was dying. Yet there was no sadness in the room."Thank you, doctor, I feel much better now." I was called upon to drain an abscess in her salivary gland, a side effect of the chemotherapy."You are welcome. I'm glad that you are feeling better." I have learned no...
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