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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Of Windmills And Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was supposed to have been a test, but it had taken her 35 years to get to this point. 35 years of her professional and personal life. Two marriages lost. One estranged child. Ostracized by her peers. Relegated to the crackpot category of scientists, financially supported by the rich fringe elements populated by otherwise intelligent and successful people who believed in conspiracy theories about Roswell a hundred years ago or people who believed in Xenu.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Part of You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was a part of you. I can still feel the connection even though you unceremoniously ripped me out of the back of your head and replaced me with a better model.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Part 1 &#8211; The Man in the Bowler Hat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 01:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It smells, you know that.” The man, not known for his oratorical skills, took a deep breath through his nose and grunted in the affirmative. He couldn’t shake his head because it was held fast [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On the Train: Gaya Eats Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2016 00:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It smells a little. All right, it smells a lot. Cold, day-old Chinese food has that quality about it at 7:30 in the morning.]]></description>
		
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		<title>On the Train: Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if you remember, little brother. Obviously, you’re dead, so remembering things isn’t in your wheel house, but if you weren’t dead, you’d recall.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Writing Notes &#8211; Chapters 8 and 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I almost gave up over the last two weeks. I almost went back to the beginning and started over. My company shuts down for the holiday and my family took precedence over all the things [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chapter 9 &#8211; Dissonance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The suit made me powerful in ways I only dreamed of as a boy, hell, in ways I dreamed of as a man. But I was still just a man, and a broken one at that.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chapter 8 &#8211; Dilation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wondered if the Solar System looked and felt the same, now that it had returned to its original lifeless state.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back in the Saddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I've been a bit silent as of late and it's not because I forgot about you wonderful people. Well, all right, I did neglect you a bit and it was intentional.]]></description>
		
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