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Misery Loves Company A short story by Gavin King The psychic girl stumbled in the river’s shallow edge and fell. “Emotions to a psychic are like a tangible fluid,” the lecturer said. The slide show was still on the “Welcome, Class! PSI 101 Week 6-Emotion Transfer” introductory slide. The psychic girl laid still for a moment, the bruises and scrapes from the fall soaking into the fragile frayed ends of her nerves, before letting out a groan of pain. Her left arm came down on a slick hard river rock, tensed, pushed the rest of her body up. Slipped. Fell again. “This kind of fluid metaphor has described the ps

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National Dress for National Success In Detroit, a young African-American man, full of promise and with big dreams of becoming an architect, is gunned down because he's wearing the wrong color shirt. In Los Angeles, a young woman is raped simply because she's wearing a fishnet top and a sheer microskirt. In New York, a tourist is mugged and stabbed to death because of his colorful shirt and World Trade Center memorial souvenir hat. All of these crimes are despicable, inexcusable, and ultimately unavoidable in today's America. These atrocities wouldn't have happened a hundred years ago, and before finding a solution we must ask ourselves what'

Scratch, scratch, scratch. Dip dip. Scratch, scratch. Finally. I lifted my quill from the tangled web of lines on the parchment that represented my work of the past two days. After checking the scroll for errors, I clipped the scroll to my mana bench. I walked to the other end of my workshop and took a chargestone off of the charger. The charger was humming softly as it condensed magical energy out of the space around it and stored it into the five (well, now four) crystalline yellow chargestones atop it. I went back to the mana bench and placed the chargestone in its slot at the base. Standing well back, I pulled the switch on the sid