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Just when I thought I’d laughed harder in days-at the audio drama, Mom practically had me rolling on the floor. The topic was Zweier’s, who are coming tomorrow, and whether I have soup or pot pie left over from last week. I replied that I have one container of soup, at which time Mom enquired whether I’d be able to tell the difference between the new stuff and the old, as the older needs to be eaten first. She assumed, based on past actions, that I just sat there while the delivery person put the food away. “I open the refrigerator and put my hands on the shelf where I want it,” I explained. ‘So, y9ou’re in the refrigerator?’ Mom asked. “Yes, I am,” I answered. ‘I didn’t know you could sit in there!’ “Maybe you should try it sometime.” ‘I just might. I think I’ll be able to lay down in there as mine’s bigger than yours.’
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Reply #821. Jun 15 12, 8:31 AM
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As I sit and listen to yet another digital talking book, my name wanders back to my story ands--pecifically, to the characters Naomi, Lynda, Bizanti, Chendori and Vhoteyra—and an idea hits me like a double-decker bus: ‘He plays both sides,’ I thought to myself’ ‘pretending to be one with the Scenorian cause, while remaining true to his home Qirynse; for there’s a schism within Cehrvanakavreyda, with those under the leadership of Bizanti Cannelahra favoring the cause of Qatavoreya Univahris. And so, being the Ultimate Commander, Vincent Cobeyra is likewise able to manipulate the outcome according to his own pleasure; what he seeks, above all, is the throne of his enemies. So when Chendori Dorsevahrtren captures Orelio Ordevahran, what he doesn’t realize Cobeyra calls the shots; and as slaying the boy outright is counterproductive to Qatavoreya Univahris’ objective, Vhoteyra has the other group of Cehrvanakavreyda operatives “stumble upon” their fellows in the act of beating the life from the child, and thus makes arrangements through ?Cannelahra to take thee boy elsewhere; and once having accomplished this, is content to wait.’
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Reply #822. Jun 15 12, 8:33 AM
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COULD YOU BE MORE VAGUE?
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The names are the same. I’d never noticed that before. Different surnames, but still the same.
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Reply #823. Jun 15 12, 9:25 AM
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Early in Megondrian history, King Zarkona Esswenta married Jasmyna Olemka, sister of the renowned warrior Jomehna Olemka. For several years, they were unable to produce an heir; then, during The Year of the Wanderrer, Jasmyna announced she was expecting twins. Their subjects were thrilled, then saddened as news of the king’s mysterious illness spread. And then, as if to make matters worse, the oldest of the two babies was born during a tremendous storm, and the queen died giving birth to the youngest.
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Reply #824. Jun 15 12, 9:26 AM
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Centuries later, in a small Qiryntian village, young Jasmyna Aorseveyno fell in love and married Scenorian-born Sevahriano Voliyno. In time, Jasmyna—whose Qiryntian name is Qaseydra—gave birth to twin boys Qodiehnto and Qorteviyno, dying soon afterword. Arranging for a friend of his late wife’s to look after Qodi, Sevahriano returned to his home kingdom with his youngest son.
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Reply #825. Jun 15 12, 9:27 AM
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“And out of your greatest despair shall come your greatest hope.” – ‘The Book of Prophecy,’ pp. 6 and 217.
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Reply #826. Jun 15 12, 9:27 AM
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HOW I HATED GOING TO CAMP\
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It’s funny how a word can jar so many memories. Camp. The very thought makes me tremble inside. Not that I don’t have any positive remembrances, but so many of them aren’t…
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Reply #827. Jun 15 12, 9:33 AM
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I attended at least three camps when I was younger: Beacon Lodge, located in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, was for eleven days each summer; the one in Avalon, New Jersey, whose name I can’t remember, was a week in duration; and girlscout camp, I believe it was in “Elizabethtown, was for just three days. Most of my memories concern Beacon Lodge, either because I went there for more years, or otherwise because some memories just stick to a person rather than others.
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Reply #828. Jun 15 12, 9:34 AM
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I can’t match ages with the incidents, except for one or two, but the events themselves are still there…the summer Lauren Childress and I got up and started walking and wound up in the campfire, what I like to refer to as the “blind leading the blind” incident; the year I caused a commode to tip over and break, necessitating stitches and an early homecoming; the year all the other campers were sick with the flu, but I was in bed with bronchitis and a temp. of 102-that year, Grandma and Mom had to pick me up early, too; the year I broke my front teeth on the swings and required my food be processed in a blender so I didn[‘t have to chew it; and “the overnight,” when we slept in an a-frame and went to the bathroom in an outhouse. Those are the clearest, the most vivid, of my memories. And some of the campers are more memorable than others—there was ‘Dominick, whom everyone called Nicki, the camp piano prodigy who, at age six, gave me a slobbering kiss—I was ten at the time, and remember thinking how disgusting it was—and who would spit on everyone he didn’t like-or, maybe there was a different reason; and there was Chad, who terrified allthe campers by biting indiscriminately like a mad beast; and there were those whose names I’ve long forgotten, but for one reason or another didn’t get along with. And I remember feeling so homesick each and every year, sitting on the bench on the first day, and feeling like I was all alone and didn’t belong-with hindsight, some of this was caused by my undiagnosed balance difficulty, which has made me feel self-conscious for as long as I can remember.
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Reply #829. Jun 15 12, 9:35 AM
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IT'S ONE OF THOSE SCENE'S THAT'S ONLY ACCEPTABLE IN THE IMAGINATION
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I was playing Ninjas’ Daily Challenge when the idea occurrd to me: if I’m focusing on the earlier days of my characters’ lives, why not have Alonso invite Anastasia to a dance *before they’re officiaolly boyfriend and girlfriend.
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Reply #830. Jun 15 12, 9:38 AM
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I’m not sure what ages I want yet, but the detail I do know3 is that their friendship evolves from helping each other study. Secretly, each thinks of the other and, well, when Maria announces an upcoming dance, he determines to ask Anastasia to go with him.
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Reply #831. Jun 15 12, 9:39 AM
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Unfortunately, when he’s nervous he has this annoying tendency to… uh, blurt out stuff that make him sound insensitive and rude. He’s always been shy, but now the problem’s been compounded with nerves. “Every time I speak, it’s like my tongue gets tangled up,” he once remarks to his identical twin brother.
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Reply #832. Jun 15 12, 9:39 AM
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On the night of the dance, as soon as he sees Anastasia, the words he’d planned to say take flight like so many frightened birds. Instead, he says, “Come on; we’re late.”
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Reply #833. Jun 15 12, 9:40 AM
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Her reaction is immediate: Before the poor boy knows what hit him, her hand flies through the air and connects with his cheek in a resounding smack with enough force behind it to send him sprawling. And she’s so upset that her magical energies activate, delivering a powerful burst of electricity to his system, causing him to black out for a few seconds.
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Reply #834. Jun 15 12, 9:41 AM
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Perhaps one of the funniest parts of tape five is the interrogation of Santiago, one of the two men who kidnapped Alonso and attempted to kill him. He’s perhaps the sorriest excuse for a bad guy I’ve ever created!
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Reply #835. Jun 15 12, 9:43 AM
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Devlyn: Santiago, I have two questions: the first of which is, what happened to *you? (Long pause) Let me guess: that battle ten thousand years ago, you never fully recovered from it, so when They brought you back you were already missing so many nuts and bolts it wasn’t even funny!
Santiago (trembling): Well, did you see that guy?
Devlyn (looking at Santiago like he’s nuts): What guy? What the hell are you talking about?
Santiago (faltering): That guy, he… I saw him… kill my… brother. He practically blew him up!
Devlyn (rolling his eyes): Your “brother” was under a tree when it was storming. That’s hardly “blowing him up.”
Santiago: It wasn’t storming!
Devlyn: He was, and as the tree he was under got struck, so was he. It’s a common occurrence in some places.
Santiago (voice risingJ There was no storm! I’m telling you that guy… he’s a monster!
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Reply #836. Jun 15 12, 9:43 AM
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Devlyn (trying not to laugh): Well, what did he look like?
Santiago (gesticulating wildly): Uh… this tall… and, uh, he had fangs.
Devlyn (laughing hysterically): What? (Takes a deep breath) Anything else, because that sounded utterly ridiculous.
Santiago: Uh, yeah… he had horns!
Devlyn (roaring with laughter again): What?
Voice: I think you’re mixing him up with Satan.
Santiago: Oh, and he weighed a ton!
Devlyn (clutching his side): What, you measured him or something?
Santiago: No, but he did!
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Reply #837. Jun 15 12, 9:45 AM
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Devlyn (choking back laughter): OK… that wasn’t the serious question. (Takes another deep breath) The serious question is, what the hell happened to Antonio Ramirez?
Santiago (confused): Who? Never heard of him.
Devlyn (dryly): I’m sure… One more time, Santiago: where is he?
Santiago (fearfully): I’m afraid I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Reply #838. Jun 15 12, 9:46 AM
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Grandma’s home from the Surgical Center. “She’s loopy and borderline grumpy,” Mom told me when she called me. “I thought she was going to make a scene. She has a bandage on her chin, and she says she’s going to rip it off because she wants to see it!” She paused, addressing my grandmother: “Sure you do.” ‘Yeah,’ I thought, ‘she wants to see it like she needs another tumor!’
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Reply #839. Jun 15 12, 9:47 AM
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The fifth tape isn’t as hi,larious as tapes three or four, but it contains some great material. The first funny part is after Maria hears an explosion coming from somewhere near her room, and goes to investigate. She thinks her son’s involved somehow, but the real situation turns out not to be so clear-cut.
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Reply #840. Jun 15 12, 9:48 AM
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