Author: Greg R. Fishbone
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Slithy
“My beamish boy! Hast thy vorpal blade slain the Jabberwock, thy manxome foe, in yon tulgey wood?” “Skibidi,” the boy demurred. 19/365
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Rabbit Hole
The angel peeredover my shoulderand urged meto clickanother link.They haveonline distractionsin Heaven,but no Wikipedia. 18/365
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Fool
In olden days court jesters found ways to yank at the strings controlling their kings but the enlightenment of our government is putting the fools on the ballot! 16/365
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Labyrinth
You’re lucky I found you in these lightless tunnels where a monster lurks, or so I’m told. I have strength enough to keep us safe while you tell stories of your world beyond these walls, where men and cows roam grassy fields under broad blue skies, free, as I long to be! 15/365
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Silence
When a silence falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does a tree sacrifice itself to fill the awkward void? 14/365
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Ice
You’re such a special snowflake, aren’t you? Whipped up by winter gales into a multitude, fierce and strong, driven into enemy faces, blinding, stabbing, burning, with a million deadly shards of ice. 13/365
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Dust
The Sun is dust on fire. The Moon is dust on ice. The Earth is a dusty ball with a dusty web of dust-based life. We are the dust that learns to think, to speak, to dream. 12/365
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Quit
The coaster returns to the platform. Eyes bleary, voice weary, the operator croaks, “All done, sir?” “Again,” I tell him. “Again, and this time add another loop!” 11/365
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Esoteric
A man built a machine that turned paper to gold, sparking revolutions of science, of religion, of thought, dragging the world from Dark Ages to Now, when Gutenberg lost his printing press to venture capitalists. 10/365
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Sweet
“Take me out to the ballgame,” Caroline urged her beau, and off they go; Season tix. All through the first six Caroline screams for the hometown crew. Down by two, but in inning seven they score eleven! Caroline stands, sings stretches arms to the sky. So good, So good, So good! 9/365
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Guess
Yours is as reliable as the sun rising in the east. Mine is as reliable as a fountain of cesium 133. May the best clock win! 8/365