Don't know where this "writers' site" crap came from but it sure as hell isn't in the prospectus.

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It doesn't seem to matter what you give away.  You never get it back. You just buy new mittens and grow new pieces to replace the appendages you've lost, wondering all the while where the old ones have gone, hoping whoever took them cares about them as much as you did back before you gave them away.

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Above is a story about attachment and about loss.  I suppose you cannot miss something you were not attached to at some point,  but it is odd how we fixate on inanimate objects that we used to care about.   The objects we casually gave away and now miss- and also, second hand,  how we judge those who we gave those items to and why they did not either give them back to us- or treat them with care.

 

Mostly this is a story about small items we give away to someone who is not attached to them and so throw them away (the way we dispose of trash

Went onto base to get our military IDs renewed. I didn't know we were doing this today; I left my wallet, and my ID.

We had a set appointment time, so Dad told me I'll just have to say it's lost. That means a fine. gulp.

We drive to the block house, unload, and walk in. Uh-oh; DEERS and the other system is down. They can't replace our ID anyways.

On the drive back home, mom gets a call from a number of all 1s and labelled, "Spam Risk". Unlike most scammers,

Priest - 2011 Action horror film.

There will be spoilers.

Based on a comic by Korean Hynug Min-Woo and directed by Scott Stewart, it's an amalgam of sci-fi Western, post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror. It was released in April 2011 to mediocre-at-best reviews. Think Catholic theocracy Firefly meets Van Helsing.

In an alternative dystopian world, Mankind has been at war with Vampires for decades, possibly centuries. These are not yer traditional

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