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Understanding Orbit and How to Achieve It -- Part One: Gravity Turns.

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [21st century life skills]
Published: 21 December 2014
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As a child, there was a book which fascinated me. It wasn't mine (at least at first), and as it turned out didn't belong to the library where I encountered it. It was the property of a remarkable old woman, who, seeing that I was enamored with it, eventually gave it to me as a gift.

It was written by a Chicago Tribune reporter, Guy Murchie, and entitled "Music of the Spheres."

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There is No Yardstick for Inner Pain

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [depression]
Published: 03 March 2014
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Jay Lake has terminal cancer. It's a given at this point that it will eventually kill him.

But using cancer as a yardstick for depression is just wrong.

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As Promised an Armageddon Flash Fiction!

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [science fiction]
Published: 14 November 2018
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Armageddon in a Flash
by Brian McNett


Oh dear... Here I am again.

I'm the narrator. So this is a Dr. Armageddon story. But those things are... you know... LONG. You can't tell a Dr. Armageddon story in less than 1000 words, can you? Just the necessary description of the beady-eyed, hawk-nosed, droopy-eared, meter-high, well-dressed, green-skinned, top-hatted fellow is going to kill at least the first seventy words! Words are going to die. But... I'm made of words!

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Geniwick: Lord of Thieves

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [science fiction]
Published: 18 September 2018
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Geniwick: Lord of Thieves

Gnomes have no religion of their own to speak of. Although there was a time when, at the behest of one of the great Aspects, a minor demigod came to live among them. Thus the gnomes came to tell “trickster tales” regarding the strange being who haunted the periphery of their world.

Geniwick is an unlikely demigod.  A gnome-like creature with the features of a small fox, he is dexterous and quick-witted. While not by nature a liar, Geniwick's accounts of his past and adventures should never be taken at face value. While he tells the truth, he seldom tells the whole truth.  What Geniwick omits from a story is typically any information which might prove his demi-godhood.

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