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Gagged on pop culture, polluted by depression, comes Mantula! A special fiction series! Glenn seemed to have a much easier go of walking than I did. Maybe because the bird only had two legs to work with, like when he was a human, so it wasn’t difficult to get used to. I had eight…
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Gagged on pop culture, polluted by depression, comes Mantula! A special fiction series! Since waking up in the body of an ugly, hairy tarantula earlier today, my life has gone from weird to just plain insane. If being a large arachnid wasn’t bad enough, my goal of “doing something else” – which meant springing to…
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Gagged on pop culture, polluted by depression, comes Mantula! A special fiction series! Airplanes always scared the crap out of me. I can’t understand why something so heavy stays up in the air without just dropping like a brick from a window. Passenger jets, to me, are like coffins with wings. I felt like I…
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(News article from the Sedona Daily Reader) Raining tarantulas? Drone spots flying arachnid over red rocks By KIP MOONEY Sedona Daily Reader SEDONA, Ariz. – Sedona Eye’s maiden flight took a turn for the weird on Tuesday when the controversial drone’s robotic cameras captured what appeared to be a tarantula flying through the air. A screen…
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Gagged on pop culture, polluted by depression, comes Mantula! A special fiction series! It might have been all of two seconds or maybe it was less than that. One look at those beady little black eyes and that seething dark carapace and I scrambled off. It seemed so alien, so ghastly, that I could barely think straight.…
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Gagged on pop culture, polluted by depression, comes Mantula! A special fiction series! I’ve woken up inside the body of something I cannot identify; only I know it isn’t what I fell asleep in. Falling asleep isn’t exactly accurate I suppose. I passed out. But I know I didn’t look like this, or feel like this. Everything is…
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Dear ROM: Spaceknight, I fear the Dire Wraiths have returned once again. You left our verdant world at a time ripe with tragedy and conflict. Challenger exploded, Reagan sat in office, and the Middle East waged war when you left our world for the depths of space. But the conflicts and tragedy continued – are…
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“Talk Jock Twits” takes a trippy, frank look at the odd little world of AM conservative talk radio. In TJT, young writer Josh White finds himself immersed in the seedy occupation with little training, or common sense, to guide him. He’s soon in too deep, however. He’s become addicted to the small town fame,…
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Small town writer Josh White thinks he’s on the road to notoriety and, better yet, popularity when he begins working for a local talk radio station in Trapper, Arizona. Instead he finds himself immersed in a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and backstabbing bastards. Welcome to the world of Talk Jock Twits. My upcoming…
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Let me just take a moment to sit on your fine old couch and put my feet up, figuratively speaking of course. It’s been a great war so far, right? And you’ve done your part like a champ. But it’s not easy. It may look easy, but this crap leaves me tired. From all reports it’s…
Patrick Whitehurst 