If you agree with Larry King and the news media and all the masses of people who have stated that the death of Anna Nicole Smith was a tragedy, then you should be put to death. You should be flogged and skewered, beaten and choked, knifed and shot, and dragged around the United States [...]
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You’ve all read stories that didn’t amount to crap. Well, this one might.
It’s happened a few times throughout my life. I awake in the middle of the night to pressure in my gut. My entire body is just waking from some deep state of peace that only sleep can bring.
But my guts [...]
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Night Quill
by Shane Ryan Staley
© 2007 by Shane Ryan Staley
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The head-cold of the year hit me a few days ago. It started with a headache and progressed into a full-blown cold within an hour. Watery eyes, runny nose, sore throat…and that was before dusk. Nightfall was hell. The germ inside me [...]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007 •
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TALL TAIL
by Shane Ryan Staley
© 2007 by Shane Ryan Staley
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The creature was pulp. A bloody smear across the road, bones ground almost flush with the asphalt.
“What the hell is it?” my brother Josh inquired.
I cringed at the mass. “Dunno.”
It could have been many things: a farm cat, a skunk or even [...]
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