Urban Legends: Part Two
I've always been fascinated by urban legends because many have origins in true stories that got distorted over time. Like one big game of telephone throughout the ages. Here are a few urban legends that have always fascinated me. Hopefully, you will find them interesting too.
Alright, last thing for tonight, but hopefully you folks get a chuckle out of this.
Ten More Amazing True Tales Of Time Travel
11 Structures Made With Bones
People have been building various things from bones for centuries. Here are just a few structures that were made with the leftover remains of the dead.
Structure One: The Skull Tower of Nis
(Warning: Could be considered a bit of a rant actually. Was really trying not to make it sound like one though.)
The regrettable thing about writing stories is, there's so much you want to put into them.
You have characters that you want to show the good and bad sides of. Heroes that you want to overcome their weaknesses, villains whose motivations you want to explain, all the failings and triumphs that come with the journey from beginning to end.
So as you guys have likely seen, I have a new story goin' out right now. It's not exactly right to call it a story, though. Talking is Hard is meant to be an exercise so I can practice dialogue, which I've gone on record several times to say is the bane of my writing. But I'm not here to talk about that. Not quite.
I'm here to share the process I typically use when designing story covers.
Okay, so at the start of November I started posting my story Hourglass for NaNoWriMo. I already had some chapters written when I published the story so I could have a buffer in case I missed some writing in my planned every-other day schedule. I had preplanned individual chapters far ahead to reduce time in brainstorming and writing. There's an unpublished chapter just titled "planning" that's 8k words and counting just sitting above
Twelve More True Tales Of Interdimensional Travel
Today I am going to share some interesting true stories I found about interdimensional travel. You can read the first journal entry I posted on this subject here.
Paranormal Creatures: The Akkorokamui
The Akkorokamui is a gigantic octopus-like monster from Ainu folklore, which supposedly lurks in Funka Bay in Hokkaidō.
The Heaven's Gate Cult
The Heaven's Gate Cult was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.
WHERE DID ALL OF THESE PEOPLE COME FROM?
In all seriousness, though, you guys are awesome. I won't say that you're the reason I keep going, because I can barely even remember all of your names and I've had conversations with about half of you, but you sure are people that care about my words.
Getting back into the swing of things! Five new stories, five new reviews, all in the span of just a couple hours of work. Glad to see a number of folks are writing new stuff, as I’m always happy to see things from folks I follow.
Today’s stories:
A Flim Flam Family Affair by bookplayer
Is It Real? by Majin Syeekoh
The Truth Is… by naturalbornderpy
Miracle by Winston
Do That Again by Bad Horse
I was wrong. Things got worse. Things got much worse.
My bosses decided that I was making too much per hour for the work I'm assigned to do (grunt work). In other words, I was overqualified, and they brought in cheaper help from below me. After said help was trained and their collars fitted, they saw fit to lower my wage by over five-hundred dollars less per month.
I cannot keep my apartment on such a change.
Watch this please if you are those people...
Praetorius...
So the next time you decide to turn guys into gals for perverse reasons, or you just want to force them into relationships, remember Sonic and Tails.
Thank Faust for Unique.
And more so for his creator; me!
Oh, and RustyBuckets, you left your headlights on mate. And for the last time Officer Hot Pants, get your bloody hand out of my pocket! THAT'S NOT EVEN A POCKET!