Beanie Blue, Queen of the Undernight: Ten Sentence Story #165

Beanie Blue was born to be a Queen, but she sure didn’t feel like one.

It was hard for her to get up in the morning — when the world was awakening to bright sunlight, Beanie was caught in the darkness of her oversleeping un-dawning mind — and it made her so sad she did not want to get out of bed in the morning.

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Twitter into the Dark Ages

We are not tremendous fans of Twitter — mainly because we find 140-character Tweets the lowest form of contentless publication that pretends to have prescience — but now we must bite our tongues and bind our fingers as we realize the Golden Age of the Web is over as Twitter heralds the advent of the New Dark Ages.

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Sleeping with the Lights On

Do you sleep with the lights on?  Or do you require total darkness for your evening slumber?

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A Killer Sells Pizza: The Jokers on Dominos

“The Dark Knight” — the new Batman movie — make $155 million over the weekend.  One cannot help wondering what sort of message the movie reflects in us considering its vast amounts of spilled guts, buckets of blood and unmitigated gore.  How do we contend with the strange, inhuman, joy found in the shared popularity of public killings?

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Best Cup of Coffee

When and where did you drink the best cup of coffee you ever had the honor of tasting and swallowing?

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