Tag: Short Story
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Key is exchangeability between credit and debit ratios; or in payment of taxes
Trust. Fiat currency’s previous metal. The key to value inspire trust. Fiat currency derives its value from the trust placed in the issuing government or central bank. A physical commodity like gold or silver does not back these currencies. Instead, they rely on the issuing authority’s stability and the users’ confidence. Fiat currencies issued by…
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Read, try it on even if it doesn’t fit. Make it work; you’ll find answers
Answers follow questions. What is the full meaning of the word answer?: something spoken or written in reply, especially to a question.: a correct response. answer (n.) Middle English answere, from Old English andswaru “a response, a reply to a question,” from and- “against” (from PIE root *ant- “front, forehead,” with derivatives meaning “in front…
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first and foremost – build a good relationship with your needs
“When you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at you, and when you point at yourself, there’s three pointing at them.” THERE’S A FLY IN MY SOUP In every life, we are constantly confronted with situations where a stranger will do something acutely irritating or discomforting: perhaps they’ll turn up…
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Science fictional fabulation deals in futurity
The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy, by rendering it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience the vagaries of…
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readier to listen, warmer, less prickly
“Friendship begins, and loneliness can end, when we cease trying to impress, have the courage to step outside our safety zones and can dare, for a time, to look a little ridiculous.” (Pg.118) The Fool tarot card is the number 0 of the Major Arcana, which stands for unlimited potential. Therefore it does not have…
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I am sure I am not mad–and that wasn’t my fantasy
By: Dmitri Malyga, February, 20. Kyiv, Ukraine. For the wildest yet most common for some people, what I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. It might be madness; would I expect it when my senses deny their evidence? I am sure I am not mad–and that wasn’t my fantasy. But I need…
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This figure is about freedom, sensuality, and awe, like the number 5
According to numerology, a system ascribing meaning to numbers based on patterns and ancient context, the integer 20, a master number implying high potential, symbolizes new beginnings, abundance, and manifestation. The prime and natural number 23 represents change, progress, and innovation, new beginnings, revolution, and transformation. The digit 23 also denotes adventure with a touch…
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the fermion should travel at almost the speed of light
Neutrino, a difficult-to-detect fermion, is a subatomic particle similar to an electron but with no electrical charge. Nearly massless, long thought to be zero, the fermion should travel at almost the speed of light, approximately 186,000 miles (299,338 kilometers) a second. However, to the astonishment of OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) team scientists, in collaboration with CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Laboratori Nazionali…
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“Okay. Just go in. You know how to conduct yourself, I’m sure,” the man told her.
A Smile Worth a Million Dollars By: James Corporon Chicago, IL. 2022 Seduction, as Amelia had been taught it, was worth everything. “You got all in the bag? Everything he asked you to bring?” the guard asked her. Amelia didn’t know why some rich guy needed her to bring him extra stuff. What was more important…
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I felt bitten by a dog, but the bite strengthened me.
It’s a scary story and suitable for your collection. A singular person appeared around the same time as you with the seduction work. I can’t describe how it happened. It was gradual, but I could see the line between reality and fantasy. During the six months of our contact, the demon changed me. I felt…
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An Illustrated Atlas of the world. What extraordinary treasures you’re going to come across.
The Journey When I go back to this story, I realize abruptly that everything started earlier than it seemed to. I was a five-year-old girl. That day dad came back home from a business trip, and I was waiting for him on the stairs of the porch. A red fourteen-apartment fourteen-story building was our place…
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Alina didn’t want to say goodbye to the moment, cherishing the feeling of newborn hope
Alina Morozova was a writer born in Aurora, a small town on the banks of the Northern Dvina River in the county’s northwest corner. Aurora was insignificantly small, like many other equal-minded rural cities in the country. For Alina, growing up along the Dvina River meant winter lasted nine cold months, and the snowy landscape…
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