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Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' by wrybread, literature

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Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman'

I was intrigued when I heard that Harper Lee was publishing a sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. And I was more than somewhat appalled when I learned that Atticus Finch had become a racist. But one night, I suddenly had the compulsion to see what the ruckus was about. My local library didn't have the hard copy yet. It did have the audiobook, performed by Reese Witherspoon. First, listening to Reese’s reading was a pleasure. Second, Harper Lee has lost none of her storytelling prowess. It took me back, both to the experience of reading To Kill A Mockingbird, and the nostalgia of growing up in a small rural town, even though my hom

Standing The Heat, Being In The Kitchen by wrybread, literature

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Standing The Heat, Being In The Kitchen

Kim's cheeks, hair, and clothing are bespattered with gobs of batter. So are the walls. Her gaze is glazed. Her pulse is pounding. She is in visible shellshock, wandering between "Ron! Help me! Don't desert me!" and "Ron! You're overprotective! Don't be so clingy!" Ron stands behind her. His hold on her is firm but gentle, both to guide her hands, to keep her from bouncing off the walls, and to partake of the guilty pleasure…of the intoxicating closeness…of her presence… …Correction…of the intoxicating closeness of both their presences. His hand is slowly guiding hers as she stirs the spoon. She wishes he would wrap his arms a

Tales of Yamanouchi, The Jade Monkeys by wrybread, literature

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Tales of Yamanouchi, The Jade Monkeys

At the Kimpossible-dot-com website, in the archives, are the Mission Logs of Team Possible. One of the most fascinating entries is the Monkey Idol Mission; or, as it is humorously called, the Virtual Clone Sitch The humorous part is how Wade Load, the site webmaster and mission coordinator, devised an interactive holographic program of Kim Possible, a virtual clone, as it were. It was programmed with a state-of-the-art behavioral algorithm. It mimicked Kim's personality perfectly; but it had no solidity. One could pass one's hand through it. It scared Ron Stoppable into thinking he had first seen

Perilous Girl by wrybread, literature

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Perilous Girl

It was the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Emperor Nintoku, sixteenth ruler in the imperial succession, descended from the Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu. Far away, atop the holy and almost inaccessible mountain peak Yamanouchi, was one who was a warrior, mystic, teacher, and visionary. He wielded a mythical weapon. Noriyuma Toshimiru, was building a complex of edifices that would serve as a school for the teaching of the shadowy art of the ninjitsu. Using the Hachisu no ha, the Lotus Blade, he carved the entire set of buildings from the living rock of the peak in a single day. How he obtained the

No Mere Mortals, A Christmas Thought by wrybread, literature

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No Mere Mortals, A Christmas Thought

C.S. Lewis says in "The Great Divorce", "…your love-all love-is of inexpressible value to me…" He says in "The Weight Of Glory", "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the aw

The Agent and the Lionheart, part 1 by wrybread, literature

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The Agent and the Lionheart, part 1

THE AGENT AND THE LIONHEART CHPT 1 The veteran Global Justice agent known as the Captain, or "Cap" to those closest to him, checked in at the clandestine Washington, D.C. Global Justice headquarters. He sat down to catch his breath. The pneumatic tube transport was a stressor on the system. Not what a guy needed with his medical prognosis. He could've gone to the best doctor. GJ retained only the best. But he believed in old school. And the GJ-appointed specialist would've been obligated to report what the Captain already suspected. His family physician had reviewed the EKG and had referred him to the cardiologist. And the news wa

The Virtual Ron, part two by wrybread, literature

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The Virtual Ron, part two

VIRTUAL RON STOPPABLE PART 2 Scrolling through the menu list, Kim saw a filename Ronald Eugene Stoppable Interactive Holographic Simulation A virtual clone? Like Drakken made of Wade? Like Wade made of himself? Was this her nephew's "virtual grandfather"? Her hands trembled as she activated the program. The Kimmunicator shot a beam...and an image. 'Oh, God!' Kim cupped her hand over her mouth and began to sob. It was Ron. An older Ron than her nephew. An older Ron than she knew before her entombment. Yet, a younger Ron than the one she had encountered that horrible Halloween, when Lon and Roy had intentionally set her free. I

The Virtual Ron Stoppable by wrybread, literature

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The Virtual Ron Stoppable

A HEROINE'S LEGACY THE VIRTUAL GRANDFATHER Ronald Eugene Possible inquired of his oldest son. "Lon...why are you videotaping me all the time?" And Alonzo Stoppable, aka Lon, answered for what seemed the umpteenth time. "Dad...don's you remember? It's for my school project. I have to make an interactive virtual clone of my favorite role model. And I picked you.. So the more samples I can get of visual references like your movements and facial expressions, and audio references like your voice, the better the program can render the data and simulate how you look and act ." Ron shook his head and sighed. It made his head spin.. "I ro

Joss and Tim, Kissin' Kousins by wrybread, literature

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Joss and Tim, Kissin' Kousins

JOSS AND TIM; KISSIN' KOUSINS chpt 1 Jim and Tim Possible were leaving school. They waved at their homeroom teacher. "See you Monday…" "…Mr. Barkin." He acknowledged them with a grunt and a curt nod. It was a complicated relationship between Steve Barkin and the "Possibles-squared". On the one hand, they were his brightest, most attentive students. On the other hand, they wreaked as much havoc at school as they did at home. He gave up owning a current model car; they had destroyed two SUV's; one the night their sister graduated, one a few days at the beach barbequ

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Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' by wrybread, literature

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Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman'

Standing The Heat, Being In The Kitchen by wrybread, literature

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Standing The Heat, Being In The Kitchen

Tales of Yamanouchi, The Jade Monkeys by wrybread, literature

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Tales of Yamanouchi, The Jade Monkeys

Perilous Girl by wrybread, literature

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Perilous Girl

No Mere Mortals, A Christmas Thought by wrybread, literature

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No Mere Mortals, A Christmas Thought

The Agent and the Lionheart, part 1 by wrybread, literature

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The Agent and the Lionheart, part 1

The Virtual Ron, part two by wrybread, literature

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The Virtual Ron, part two

The Virtual Ron Stoppable by wrybread, literature

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The Virtual Ron Stoppable

Joss and Tim, Kissin' Kousins by wrybread, literature

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Joss and Tim, Kissin' Kousins

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Heroine's Legacy, Her Servant1 by wrybread, literature

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Heroine's Legacy, Her Servant1

FROM "A BOX OF CUDDLEBUDDIES" BY CAPTAINKODAK1; the date: June, 2007. Tara stepped over to her dresser and pulled a box from under her underwear. Opening the box she pulled out three pair of handcuffs. Rolling Kim over on her stomach, she pulled Kim's hands behind her back and locked them around Kim's wrists. … A steel ring had been anchored into the wall of the cistern. Tara passed the cuff through the ring and snapped the cuff shut over. FROM "FAMILY LEGACY" BY DACCU65; the date: Halloween, 2027. Tara found a dark corner to conceal herself and waited, while the intruder reached the top of the stairs and started to descend. Tara ga

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Deviant for 18 years
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My Bio

The Kompleat Kim Possible Ignoramus
The Born Again Bible Thumper
The Glacially Slow Writer
The Chronicler of the Coeur de Lion

Current Residence: Michigan
Favourite genre of music: classical, 1940'S pop
Operating System: Windows ME, XP, Vista
Favourite cartoon character: Kim Possible, Snoopy, King of the Hill
Personal Quote: Gentlemen: may we all find our Kim, and once having found her, may we be her Ron

Favourite Movies

It's A Wonderful Life, Lord Of The Rings, The Wizard Of Oz, Star Wars, Ben-Hur

Favourite Writers

J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, James Michener, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, Edgar Rice Burroughs,

Tools of the Trade

word-processor, thesaurus, Wikipedia, fairytale sensibilities.

Other Interests

home video, fanfic, counted cross stitch, country-western dancing

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May 31, 2020

Club Bookworm Meanderings

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Deviantart has again reconfigured its format. It's like when the internet browser you use has changed, and you can't do stuff like accessing your history to get to a website you were at just a few minutes ago. Or you want to enlarge the print so you don't give yourself eyestrain, but you can't figure out which thingy on the taskbar is the right one, and you're afraid of changing your settings. But I digress. For a few years, I've had a yen to take that Club Bookworm pic in my collection and make it the basis for a series of essays, thoughts based on passages from famous...and not-so-famous writings. I speak of myself as a Born-Again Bible Thumper, yet I wish to round out my knowledge, if for no other reason than to be able to speak with others of different subcultures. Both St. Augustine and Mark Twain say stuff to the effect that a book not read is a mind not traveled. Malcolm Muggeridge says this in his book, Jesus Rediscovered, chpt 2, Am I A Christian? "This is a question I

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wrybread

Jan 4, 2020

New Year Yammer

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Chagrin and suprise / Did dA monetize? At the settings I peruse / And I kinda sorta construes / It seems an inevitable drift / Practicality and idealism suffer / A rift

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wrybread

Nov 26, 2019

Making Myself Too Scarce

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Am without legit excuse / I have been extreme recluse / And I don't know of any tricks / That will cause a permanent fix / I want however to say hi / To whoever stopping by / Enjoy the colorful season fall / & Happy Thanksgiving to one and all

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Skoshi8

Dec 8, 2020

Got the message about the iPhone but I wasn't able to reply. I only have a flip phone which is fine for me. Hope that your Thanksgiving was good.

Skoshi8

Feb 12, 2019

Looks like the live-action Kim Possible show will be here in a few days. I don't have cable so I won't be able to see it. We've been waiting twelve years for this. Hope that it bodes well for the future.

Skoshi8

Dec 15, 2017

Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy 2018!

Robert

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Edited Jan 2, 2018

You are most welcome,mon ami. I find to my somewhat chagrin that the passing of time inexorably diffuses the events of our lives like embers rising from a fire. Things scatter like the ashes. Occasions recede as we go downstream on time's flow...Alas that we can't traverse ground already covered, like we can in the physical dimensions. And I am liberally sprinkling both similes and metaphors. peace be upon you, fellow Kimmunion-ist...

...wow--I must Google that to see if anybody thought that up before I did. Doubtless someone already did. And I must also determine if it represents impiety, combining the name of the Christian sacrament and a cartoon heroine

Thank you for the fav for