Let’s write a story together

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As dusk turned to pitch we all gathered 'round, our patriarch Sal burst with a sound: "Sprints for us all for telling this story, you keep this place live and it's never boring."
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Hebrews 13:6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
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And as the apparitions faded away, we wondered whether those mushrooms hadn’t been okay to eat after all... What was real, and what was just the product of our imaginations, stoked by the feared Enablers lurking in the shadows and forever infiltrating our devices?

“It’s no good, no good at all” my partner muttered “if we want *that* we’re going to have to ....”
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......grin and bear it, little buddy. Its gonna burn....a lot, ....well at least it did last time.....dang you,! little buddy!
You know I get when we eat these darn things!
Ha!!! I know how YOU get when we eat wild shrooms!
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True! But a good story never has started out with a "good idea"! The best stories have started out with "hold my beer and watch this!" At least the ones people remember, cherish, and talk about. And the tattoos and scars to prove it! Good thing I have plenty! And nothing to prove but the wisdom that comes from the hard knocks. Not that I won't do some pretty stupid **** still! But hopefully someone else can fill that "crazy sumbitch" role. And for the the youngster striving to get ahead just............
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...to get ahead with selfish, self-centered dreams of fame and fortune, such a youngster would be smart to sit back and listen to the words of wisdom from Sal, the Most Interesting Man in the World, who once said...
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My musings were cut short by the sudden appearance of a biplane flying in low over the horizon, about half a mile away. It was coming toward us fast, and as it approached we looked around desperately for somewhere to hide...
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The trash dumpster behind Mrs. Kitty’s discount massage parlor didn’t look too inviting but one more quick glance at the fast approaching plane and we were diving headfirst into the bin where we found ourselves waist deep in...
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Kimchi from the Korean restaurant next door. We had to cut ourselves free with our Spyderco...
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Luckily, Doc and I were carrying our beloved SE HB Ladybugs which made short work of the mess.

Poor Gringo struggled with his Smock and even though we tried our utmost to free him, time was against us ...
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... as it was getting close to opening time. With heavy hearts we closed the lid behind us, wiped off our hawkbill Labybugs, losing the last of our shirt buttons in the process, and with renewed resolve ....
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....we set our eyes at the real task at hand. Edge retention was going to be our strongest need, so we whipped out our....
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K390 and Maxamet knives in a race to see which would last the longest. The problem was...
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, we had run out of time. The biplane roared overhead, dropping a small cylinder that hit the ground and began spewing out a thick, choking cloud of green smoke. Unsure of what this meant, we quickly pocketed our knives and...
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...fled back into the house. As we peered out the window, we realized it wasn't a biplane at all, rather a spaceship with a large, saucer-like forward portion, a thick, elongated cylindrical portion below, and two longer, narrow cylinders coming off that. And, it wasn't green smoke, but...
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