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I like to dream of weird worlds and twisted beings. Nested in my blog you will find the peregrinations of a magpie mind. When I am not writing or reading, I work as a mechanical engineer. I also sometimes spend time with my wife, four kids, hamster (the hamster's dead, he got stuck to a mouse sticky pad and slowly suffocated), and leopard gecko. I enjoy bacon and Jimi Hendrix.

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Me.

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My muse.

'The Giant' (50-word Flash)

When the pressure grew too strong, his belly popped through the hole, like a loaded champagne cork. Skyward the gnome flew. With each boing, bump and lump, his body flattened then stretched. The crags chiseled him. Ropey cords and sinews. A leviathan. From the fountainhead is where giants are born.

November 3, 2025

 

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