December 2010
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Part II of "The Watchmaker's Apprentice.
The saga continues and comes to some sort of end this quarter in part II of “The Watchmaker’s Apprentice.” Check it out if read you read part one in the last issue of Steampunk Tales. If you haven’t read part one, I’d recommend you start there. It takes place in a fictional 19th Century Manhattan, local police are puzzled by a series of very strange bodies that begin...
Dec 22nd
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Hey There, Red
Hey there, Red. Come here often? No? You sure, I feel like I must’ve seen ya before. What? What’s so exciting over there ya can’t look over here? S’cool. I get it. You’re hard to get. Whatevs, I’ll keep talking. You need another drink? Bartender, get this lady another of whatever she’s drinking. Whaddya mean no? I got money, ya got a register....
Dec 10th
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Two Random Word Stories: 12/5/10
“owlish, ancient, heartbeat, fire-engine, salient, elusive, earth-tone, boney, grasshoppers, restored, Hungarian” The Grasshoppers  The grasshoppers are fire-engine red and they’re not happy with me, while I sit here blinking owlishly and trying to collect what’s left of my shattered intellect. Earth-tones surround the room, and calm finds me guilty by association. A...
Dec 5th
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Tradition on a Saturday Night
Walking up north fifth, I’m heading toward Bedford when I hear the first sharp crack of flesh on flesh in the Saturday night air. My head snaps but I can’t spot the source yet, so I walk a little further, head on a swivel. I’m past them when I finally see. In the shelter of the corner of a stoop, a man in a leather jacket pins a woman’s hands to a gate. She’s...
Dec 2nd
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