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Idle Hands

10/31/2018

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Idle Hands, Short Story, The Penned Sleuth
​Fire; one of the most interesting and useful discoveries in history. Unfortunately it’s also the most destructive. With these factors in mind fire can be used scientists to heat chemicals to create life-saving medication. Or, fire can be used to destroy something.

So it is in the interest of the common man that fire, if used destructively, should be used by professionals. Standing in the scorched building I concluded that's not what happened here.

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Happiness

10/30/2018

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Happiness
I didn't enjoy the silence. It was awkward and I didn't want to feel awkward in my last moments. Luckily, he decided to start speaking.

"I suppose it has something to do with the economy..." he said eventually.

"Hmm?" I replied breaking away from my thousand yard stare. "What makes you say that?"

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Halloween 1974

10/29/2018

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Halloween 1974, Short Story, The Penned Sleuth
Tensions were high this Halloween. Trouble in government, which affected everyone and trouble at home, which affected everyone I cared about. My father lost his job, my mother was sick and my sister was missing. I knew she ditched to go to a high-school party, which only annoyed me more. I was the one who drove from two cities over to see our parents, but I guess it was a three-piece Halloween this year. Still, I was glad to see them again. No matter what path of life you take it is always a pleasure to return home.

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Cloud 8

10/28/2018

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Cloud 8
"How is the subject?" Dr Roberts asked.

"All is well, sir. Project Q is doing just fine."

"Good and how was Z's transition?"

The scientist looked nervously up from his tablet at the doctor. Dr Roberts raised an eyebrow. The subject wasn't dead, but there was some sort of complication. That's what Dr Roberts read from the man’s face. Something inside him told him that another one of Z's complications had come up and despite the frequency of them, he still was afraid of being surprised.

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Echo

10/27/2018

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Echo, Short Story, The Penned Sleuth
I worked for a large school just off the coast off the Atlantic. It was a prestigious school and man was it the largest around. I could spend a good hour walking around it before I visited all the rooms. I am the janitor; unfortunately my family did not have the funds to send me to such a school. I wish they did.

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