Avalin Lee Baird
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The Bootstrap-Mentality in America (Political Article)
There is something of a Bootstrap-Mentality in America that has been dealing major damage ever since our founding, and has only gotten worse with time. Laziness, especially in America, is perceived to be fixable (usually through self-reliance, hard work, and sometimes physical, violent discipline). And the idea of applying these methods is more palatable to…
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Gif Art: The Curse of the Netflix Foreign Language Subtitles Coming to a Theater Near You!
Pictured Here: The Not So Distant Future, the same AI that does Netflix subtitles does all subtitles now and drive-in movie theaters became popular again.
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Dead Dog (Short Fiction)
T.W: Death (Human, Animal), Murder. “I’m real tired of all that touristy shit.” Imani grumbled, crossing her arms on the table and leaning in, “Café du Monde and all that bull.” Jocelyn’s eyes drifted to the side to observe the pigeons getting fat on table scraps, sugar-loaded beignets from the tourists. “I swear, if I…
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Living on God’s Emotional Support Pet Rock (Sample)
It began in the void as a feeling. It was the first feeling, which became something of a thought, which ultimately wasn’t voiced as anything much more than a soundless scream. Full of feeling, but silent, like everything before that had been. It was the same kind of scream that was later gifted by the…
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Beginnings of a Sci-Fi Book. Untitled.
The general public of the multiverse, microverse, macroverse, places damned, divine, and/or definitely not either announced themselves to us, and for like, fifty years, we were total assholes about it. After the so-dubbed “cataclysm” in 1983; we were still mad about it, but we just found a way to work alongside the powers that be. …
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Chapter 4 of Cthulhu’s Dead, And We Killed Him
Download full chapter below sample: “If there’s a lab, Shatley and Donovan will send it there. I, personally, can’t send it to a lab. And I want to keep this out of the hands of local police at all costs, given their current state.” I patted the flat, dried bundle of evening primroses in my…
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