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	<description>Proud Scribe of the Warlock&#039;s Wake</description>
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		<title>Collage of Mirrors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about the decay of society, the spreading epidemic of white trash mentality, and the violent legacy bound in blood, passed from father to son.

Broken mirrors covered the wall opposite from where Zack sat in the family’s cabin.  His father had glued hundreds of mirror shards to the wall, arranging them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Fringe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is noteworthy because, in general, Shannon cannot write short stories.  Every time he tries, it ends up around 30,000 words.  He wrote this with one goal in mind: to make it as short as possible.  As of this writing, it is the shortest story he has written.

Terry had endured the last few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt &amp; Pain: the Beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the beginning of a novelette Shannon wrote in the late nineties.  This section was published in Confluence a few years ago.  It is unclear if he will do anything more with the project.  It’s too short  to stand on it’s own and too long  to be a short story, but Shannon has no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt &amp; Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from a novelette Shannon wrote in the late nineties.  This section was published in Confluence a few years ago.  It is unclear if he will do anything more with the project.  It&#8217;s too short  to stand on it&#8217;s own and too long  to be a short story, but Shannon has no desire to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two short pieces that deal with life in the dark.

The Stars&#8217; Song
He lay awake in the darkness, his blood-shot eyes fixed on the stucco ceiling as his mind’s eye jettisoned through the plaster, pine boards, tar paper, and shingles to take in the billions of stars scattered across the early morning sky. Freed by his [...]]]></description>
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