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your entire life

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lation — the
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still standing

after the Father of the
eliminated his stock
interest through merger

Now a career counselor
will explore
the role of 'real
life' experiences.

Really?

geographies: Campaspe

wednesday newstrip

Experts estimate that there are more than 1.6 million young Americans going abroad on short missions for weeks or months every year to promote Christianity · hernia mesh concerns grow among men as more patients report surgery complications · Fallout 76 players banned for life after saying they plan to 'eliminate all gays' · Egyptian actress Rania Youssef has been charged with public obscenity & faces five years in jail if convicted — all because she wore a sheer dress that revealed her legs · HIV in Australia on the rise in heterosexuals · Chinese Government says it has shut down controversial human gene-editing project.

from 690 words, #7

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women, & causing the death
of those fictional dotmeisters.

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The seminal event in a
sequence of events is
a pious man seeing his
father doing the bread roll

dance at the St. Mary's
Caring Soup Kitchen. Now
a new intimate connection
begins to form, one that’s

in color, a crime documentary
that's full of both subtext &
subtitles. Others might distract
themselves with a magazine or

maybe listening to some music.
The pious man longs for the rush
of celebrity status — a desire
passed down from his parents.

geographies: Tashkent

Was to be found hauling
his concertina up Shota
Rustaveli Street. Swallows
swept beneath his feet, in
some kind of toccata &
fugue pattern, dispensed
in the pitter patter plague
proportions that would
later come to be so well
known as the signature
intro to every performance
given by Johann Sebastian
in his Lovin' Spoonful days.

geographies: Barratta Creek

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to know about

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& is now free

geographies: Keebah

from 690 words, #2

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earlier this year
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believed to be inherent
in a final steely resolve

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need to be ripped apart

wednesday newstrip

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from 690 words, #1

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wednesday newstrip

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geographies: Carstairs

                                                                 it was quite some time before the train arrived

street seen

wednesday newstrip

Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee dies aged 95. White House defends T.®ump's cemetery no-show · fighting in Yemen city of Hodeidah reaches residential streets. Australian Premmy Monster Skoot Sorry_Son backs T.®ump’s trade plays · Australian men earn 21.3% more than their female colleagues, review finds · Apple issues fatwa against the use of vaccines to repair problem iPhones & Macbooks after customers complain of annoying tech issues · Emily Ratajkowski’s nipple pops out of tiniest string bikini ever as the CDC warns of deadly turkey salmonella outbreak just in time for Thanksgiving.

meanwhile, on the y axis

dreadnoughted

wednesday newstrip

T.®ump faces a big test in the midterms & it has brought all his worst traits to the fore —measles warning issued for Sydney's south · Apple will stop revealing how many iPhones it sells after electronic fault leaves 774 criminals & remandees unmonitored for 24 hours · teen pizza delivery driver dies after being hit by own car — 5 things to do this weekend that will boost your mental health · US court gives young activists go ahead to sue DoNuts T.®ump over climate change · "When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn't matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can't work" said Barack Obama.

geographies: Taroom

Otoliths issue fifty-one is now live

Otoliths issue fifty-one, the southern spring issue, has just gone live.

Once again it contains an wide-ranging mix of text & visual poems, reviews, photographs, collages, prose pieces — long & short — paintings, & a few combinations of those forms. Included in the issue is work by Nico Vassilakis, Alyson Miller, David A. Welch, Brandstifter, Texas Fontanella, David Lohrey, Nick Nelson, Jake Berry, Jeff Bagato, Jim Leftwich, Steve Dalachinsky, Dylan Harris, Sven Heuchert, David Felix, Sanjeev Sethi, Seth Howard, Daniel de Culla, Richard Kostelanetz, Mark Cunningham, Cecelia Chapman, Maralena Howard, Peter Bakowski & Ken Bolton, Jürgen Schneider, dan raphael, JD Rage, John W. Sexton, Elaine Woo, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy, osvaldo cibils, Gregory Kimbrell, Carol Stetser, Stephen C. Middleton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Brad Vogler, Howie Good, Olivier Schopfer, Lynn Strongin, Eileen R. Tabios, Olchar Lindsann, Sacha Archer, Andrew Topel, Billy Mavreas, Jami Macarty, Ficus strangulensis, Christopher Barnes, Brendan Slater, Joel Chace, J.J. Campbell, Francisco Aprile, Crank Sturgeon, Daniel f Bradley, Vernon Frazer, Bob Heman, Jake Marmer, Jim Meirose, Joe Balaz, John Levy, Mike Callaghan, Clara B. Jones, Rich Murphy, Jack Galmitz, hiromi suzuki, Kirk Marshall, Bill Wolak, Yoko Danno, Obododimma Oha, Sean Singer, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Timothy Pilgrim, Kyle Hemmings, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Tom Beckett, Joshua Medsker, Toby Fitch, Willie Smith, Michael Gottlieb, Jeff Harrison, Susan Gangel, gobscure, Joseph Buehler, Jim McCrary, Tim Murphy, Xe M. Sánchez, Gareth Morgan, Keith Nunes, Andrew Brenza, Marilyn Stablein, Tom Montag, Tony Beyer, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Michael O'Brien, Anna Cates, Pete Spence, Siham Karami, Stephen Nelson, AG Davis, Jesse Glass, Erik Fuhrer, Marcia Arrieta, Owen Bullock, Edward Kulemin, Miro Sandev, Gavin Yates, David Kjellin, Joyce Parkes, Michael Orr, Connor Stratman, Tim Youngs, Michael Brandonisio, Natsuko Hirata, Jake Goetz, Meryl Stuart Phair, Tess Ridgway, J. D. Nelson, Martin Edmond, Katrinka Moore, Penelope Weiss, John Pursch, Shloka Shankar, Olivia Macassey, nick-e melville, & Cherie Hunter Day.

wednesday newstrip

How to break free from the chains of Apple’s ecosystem — China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs · poor uptake on inaugural Fly My Sky flight from Auckland to Whangārei but dogs sniffing out human disease could lead to new biosensor technology · kiss goodbye to the e-scooter craze — Caitlyn Jenner rocks a white swimsuit on her 69th birthday · in the wake of a call for retractions of dozens of papers from a high-profile Harvard University heart stem cell research lab, federal officials today announced they are pausing a clinical trial based on research in this field · a third of Australia's foreign workers paid less than half minimum wage.

updated

Today the
postman brought
me an
invitation from
Torquemada
to attend the
Inquisition. Specified
dress. Either
full Inquistorial regalia &
bring a bag, or
sackcloth & ashes
& come as you
are. That's the trouble
since T.®ump assumed
the Papacy. No
middle of the road
to walk down
anymore.

wednesday newstrip

Windows 10's dumpster-fire update just got worse: Russia warns of retaliation · Red Dead Redemption 2 PC spotted in the wild: migrant caravan swells to 5,000, resumes march from Mexico to US · 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Camille Grammer marries, confirming she wasn't real after all · 'Headless chicken monster' caught on film for the first time: Afghan election day plunges into chaos · T.®ump takes a dump on 1987 Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear missile treaty, now fighting for life after being hit by a kangaroo.