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Cleronomancy

Living for the afterlife. aka Deadmen, Haunts, Horrorshows Death is a big, scary thing, and there’s no escaping from it. It’s easy to think that you’ll never die while you’re […]

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Avriomancy

The magic of the last second. aka Improvateurs, Procrastinators In high school, some students had every assignment for the next month recorded in their planner, color-coordinated notes, and a binder […]

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The Waste Land

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is so, so much more than a poem about the decay of modern civilization. It’s […]

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Tropamancy

Breaking the fourth wall. aka Authors, Protagonists, Tropers You were going to be a legend. You were going to be a genius, a star, the greatest author that had ever […]

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The Seeker’s Journal

I’ve done it. I’ve done it! I have it, here, in my arms. It’s such a tiny thing. So small, defenseless. I could put out its eyes, sunder its limbs, […]

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Life Lessons

Miscellaneous rumors. They say that the olfactory senses (the sense of smell) is the sense closest linked to memory. Go on eBay, or to a high-end antiques dealer. Find an […]

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The Gross Clinic

Horrors of the past. In winter of 1944, with overtaxed supply lines in the Ardennes, a German medic had completely run out of plasma, bandages and antiseptic. During one particularly […]

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I’m Batman!

Disguised dukes in Arizona? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BATMAN_SIGHTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-02-14-17-19-12 Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo […]

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