But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain. – Bob Dylan, May 1963

Paranoia strikes deep.
Into your life it will creep. – Stephen Stills, Dec 1966

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on.
You don’t really want to know just how far It’s gone.
Just leave well enough alone. – Don Henley, Oct 1982

The day they blew out the brains of the king,
Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing. – Bob Dylan, Mar 2020

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“Maybe I should be a superhero next.” Truman stood by the fireplace facing the empty living room of the abandoned house. Not a single person was in the room to listen. Lots and lots of bacteria, but they didn’t care and wouldn’t pay attention anyway. He decided he needed someone or something to talk to. Reaching out a hand, he conjured a squirrel, sitting on the floor facing him.

“Aye, but what would your powers be?” it replied. “Besides, you already have a job, you are a Homeless Space God.”

Truman stared at the squirrel, “Mind how you say that, it’s not ‘Homeless pause Space-God’, it is correctly said ‘Homeless-Space pause God’. The distinction is important.”

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Margot Fontaigne looked down her Prada prescription glasses at her iPad. She adjusted her designer skirt by resting the pad on her knees and pulling at her thighs side to side- like a boa constricter making room. She was slightly overweight to her dreadful husband but to herself she knew she was a cow, and would always be a cow. She looked up at the parade of young girls striding down the runway- fresh meat to the game.

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For Round 8 I wrote some more non-fiction... um, it could be fiction. It's more of a theory, really. If I was studying for a PhD in Theology, this would be the subject of my Doctorate thesis, but I'm not, so I wrote a short essay instead. At its core it's about religious tolerance. So, deep thoughts:

As a religious person, there's a subject I have often pondered on but spoken only rarely of, and it is simply this: a Christian knows fully the Ultimate Truth, that there is but one God who created all the Universe and appeared to us in Jesus, and a Hindu knows full well the Sacred Knowledge that there are three gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva - and their progeny, a full pantheon. These faiths appear to be, at first glance, contradictory. How could two opposite Truths, both, be true?

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Salvenger Rook
A Sketch
As dictated by
The Narrator

Hello._
I am what is known as the Narrator._
I picked this name in this language as it best describes what I do. And someone else already picked Watchers._
I Watch._
I Note._
I Dictate._
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Jeremy was walking down Hollywood Blvd. Jeremy was carrying his usual cardboard sign that said, 'Homeless. Every bit helps.' Under his right arm. He was dressed in his best jacket. By his best, he meant a jacket with the fewest holes. The stains only added to the looks in his opinion. While walking, Jeremy ran his left hand through his long, black, and greasy hair in an attempt to make it more orderly.

He approached the 101 off-ramp, right next to the foreign car repair shop. As expected, the Dude was already there with his own sign.

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