The Next Circle of Hell, Vol. 2
Welcome to volume two of the deeper fiery pit! This thread is more or less for those of us with or without agents, on sub, and wondering if only one spezna is really enough to get us through. Here's...
View ArticleIs Jack live here?
Obviously that's wrong in grammar. I know it should be "Does Jack live here?" But when you hear people talking, it is "'s Jack live here?" So when I put it in writing, in dialogue, Is "Is Jack live...
View ArticleThe Mindful Gratitude Thread
One of the admittedly simple things that's gotten me through the last year and a half is practicing deliberate gratitude for at least one or two small things, every day. At first, I was actually...
View ArticleCreative Couplets
The object of this game is simple: To pair two words, that together form an interesting turn of phrase, idea or expression. And each person who posts, uses the second word in the previous pair to begin...
View ArticleLast goes first:
The object of this game is to write a sentence beginning with the last word of the previous sentence. Example: Post # 1: It was a dark and stormy night. Post # 2: Night and darkness frequently turned...
View ArticleThe Double Letter Game
Name a word that has double letters in it, ie: Mully The next person then needs to start another double letter word with the letter that is the same as the double letters in the previous word. ie:...
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mRNA vaccine against tick bites could help prevent Lyme disease
mRNA vaccine against tick bites could help prevent Lyme disease An mRNA vaccine that causes a red, itchy skin rash in response to bites by ticks may allow them to be removed before they transmit Lyme...
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Do You Think You Could Respond To This? (Part II)
You can only respond to the question with another question? Did I studder? Can I go First? Did you eat that?
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Say the First Word that Comes to Mind, part III
This is an old game played on other forums with this template: Without thinking about it say the VERY FIRST word that comes to mind, reading the word the poster before you has written..... I say Book...
View ArticleFortunately...unfortunately
Here's a game I play with my drama students. Someone starts a story and, depending if things are going well or badly, ends the sentence with "fortunately" or "unfortunately." The next person repeats...
View ArticleHello from a UK based self-published cookbook author (traditional offset...
Hello, I've just been granted access (thank you to the admin team), and thought I'd introduce myself. I'm UK-based and have self-published 3 cookbooks about Indian food. Before I started publishing 3½...
View ArticleHi! Call me Bill.
Hey Everyone! I write to resurrect the dead emotions buried in the graveyard of my soul. It's nice to meet you. And please, call me Bill. Sincerely, Bill
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US Houses passes Build Back Better act
House passes $1.75 trillion Biden plan that funds universal pre-K, Medicare expansion and renewable energy credits The House has passed the largest expansion of the social safety net in decades, a...
View ArticleIn Sad But Hopeful News -
Now that we're agreed lobsters and crabs (and all sorts of other wet creatures) can feel pain and joy, we can stop boiling them alive. I'm very pleased about that.
View ArticleFood Recalls in the USA and Canada
Lime Green Grocer, Inc. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Soy in the Thai Delight Burrito Lime Green Grocer, Inc. of Seattle, Washington is recalling 783 individually wrapped Thai Delight Burritos,...
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Harper Valley PTA comes to our House of Representatives
You just have to laugh at this stuff if you want to decrease your daily dose of stress: Rep. Omar slams colleague Boebert as ‘insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert’ In an unhinged speech from the...
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How to fight fascism from a position of strength
How to fight fascism from a position of strength We don’t need to build our political identities around what we’re against. www.opendemocracy.net The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been...
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THE INDUSTRIAL AGE--Patty's self-publishing thread
My book is live! I don't whether to , , or maybe . I hit 'Publish' on KDP on Saturday morning at 9 AM (after reading the proof in under 2 and half days--and I still missed a typo, a repeated that that...
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