HONESTY PAYS_Artistic Sacrifices_The Pros and Cons of a Super Position_Love's Repast
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HONESTY PAYS
Isidore Beckerman relished sitting down with a good book on the weekend. He had always loved reading, favoring detective mysteries and adventures, with the occasional how-to manual or inspirational text a close second choice. Following his usual Saturday morning breakfast of oatmeal with maple syrup and a banana cut in, Isidore made himself a nice, steaming cup of coffee and ambled over to his bookshelf to peruse his extensive collection and select his next read. As he shuffled through the spines of the books, his eyes suddenly focused on an old book from his teen years. Pulling it out from th...
Artistic Sacrifices
“I need to get something off my chest.”“Oh, do you have a pimple? No big deal. I get those on my back all the time, and…”“Gulliver, shut up. I’m serious. I think I want to stop being a dragon.”“You can’t do that, can you?”“I don’t know if I can or not, but I have to. I’m done killing knights and gathering gold. I want to do something else.”“I get you, Lars. I’m a little tired of the knights hiding in that armor. Farmers are easier on the teeth.”“No, I’m done with it all. Don’t you ever want to do something else? Something bigger or more important? Don’t you want to do something tha...
The Pros and Cons of a Super Position
PROS AND CONS OF PUSHING THE BUTTON By the One Who PushesPRO: The world has never (not even once!) ended. Neither as a direct result of your having pushed the Button, nor in any other way. This is optimal.CON: The world (your world, that is) has indeed never, not once, ended (nor even changed in the slightest) as a direct result of your having pushed the Button. And not to be too down on yourself and your sad life and everything, but let’s be honest: This is suboptimal. (You need friends.)PRO: The people you pass on the street, on those rare occasions you dare to go out, may well have you, a...
Love's Repast
The Athenaeum. Joliver Muses. Dessert.In the City State of Nodderton, there is a secret library filled with dusty scrolls, lost manuscripts, memoirs of wizards and ghosts, long-forgotten books and essays, uncensored forbidden plays, and the rarest maps.There are only two ways to find this library. The first is through rigorous investigation and study; one only requires an unyielding curiosity. Whereas the second way, the more magical way, is to stumble across it by chance, precisely when it is needed.Joliver Barleywood, a learned bard and a halfling of the Aevalorn Parishes, discovered the lib...