Yesterday a total solar eclipse fell across the South Pacific, bringing thousands of tourists and scientists to Easter Island to witness it. We’ve got pictures from this historic and vaguely spooky event.
Category Religion/Myth/Belief
On the Clock
This story was originally written when I was 18 years old (13 years ago), and recently rediscovered in a filing cabinet. First time typed out, aside from some very minor tweaks, it appears here as it was originally written. I took out over 2 pages worth of material that wasn’t really relevant to the plot, mostly dealing with the initial sighting, and Matthew’s relationship with his ex-wife. For a short story written by an 18 year old, it isn’t bad, hope you’ll agree…
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ON THE CLOCK
The rain from the storm beat down harshly upon the shingles of the roof, sounding like tiny soldiers marching in chaotic unison over a volatile battlefield.
Matthew sat and smoked his pipe while skimming through the newspaper which he’d read nearly in its entirety earlier in the evening. The radio buzzed strangely, the static of the storm was almost getting the best of his broadcast. He pulled a puff through the wood tip of his pipe, looked at the clock above his fireplace and exhaled a whiff of vanilla-cinnamon swirl.
It was eleven fifty-five, approximately five minutes before the show was set to air. For now the news was being flashed, speaking of continuing storms throughout the night and tomorrow morning, and about a train wreck that had occurred near downtown earlier today, killing eight people. The voices were getting much harder to understand though, for after nearly every other word a click or low buzz would crackle and ring out like a shouted greeting from the surging storm.
100 Artists See Satan
“The CSUF Grand Central Art Center is having a fundraiser with a satanic theme. 100 artists have contributed their renditions of all-things-satan. Here are a few of my favorites.”
Law of the Jungle
Law of the Jungle:
6/26/10
MAD – http://www.upsidebackwards.info
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Mal-Tek was a warrior in a long line of warriors; fearless, courageous, strong. His ancestry, in the time before time when the darkness ruled both night and day and the serpent stood on two legs, revealed a skill honed by survival which no beast or man could equal. While his personal coming of age ritual had long since passed beneath the great mother moon, he generally hunted for food, not sport. That is, until now.
6 Bodies Found in Mexico Cave, Hearts Cut Out
Police discovered six dead bodies in a cavern near the tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, three of them cut open and their hearts removed.
Authorities are investigating the identities of the four men and two women found dead in the natural cave, said Francisco Alor, the Quintana Roo state attorney general.
“They were apparently tortured and their chests were opened to remove the hearts,” Alor’s office said later in a statement.
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