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TBT #84: If Love Could Kill It’d Kill Us All

“Stan Tropp’s gonna die tonight!” the woman yells, waving her sign in the street. “Bastard gonna fry tonight!” She dances and cheers down the streets of Somerside. Later she’ll pile into a bus with the rest of her church group and drive down the highway to Nickerfall prison, where they’ll watch him go, smiles on [...]

2006

Mar

Posted by Matt at 04:29 am
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TBT #77: Foreverman and the Two Earths

Face front, True Believer! It’s time for another astounding adventure starring that venerable Titan of Tremendous Toughness: Foreverman! Celebrating sixty years of terrific tales jam packed with astonishment, Foreverman is now set to go on his greatest adventure yet! And if you think your favourite Leviathan of Light, the Herculean Hope for all Mankind, the [...]

2006

Jan

Posted by Matt at 07:09 pm
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TBT #75: So What Now?

You can hear everything through one of the air vents at the MacIntyre building. I work upstairs, taking papers from folders and putting them in other folders. It’s a boring job and I don’t like it. It took me three months of long days before I found the vent. It happened by chance and is [...]

2006

Jan

Posted by Matt at 02:54 am
3 Comments published
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TBT #72: Bob Barker’s Place in History

Now: A time for defining things. You reach a certain age and all that posturing you did in youth becomes almost regrettable. Those bathroom mirror declarations, full of equal parts hope and disdain. Disdain for mom, dad and every other old person who shuffled but did not walk, who looked but did not see, who [...]

2005

Dec