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Into Looking Glass III

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The Introduction of Jaquin Sadler- Finding the Path

It was one of those moments of desperation as all of my thoughts focused on the noise of my car engine slowly grinding away. I had been driving at a snails pace for fifteen miles across the desert highway before I reached a little greasy diner surrounded by tumble-weeds and flat sand. My only comfort was that for a few seconds god had graced me with an evening sunset that blazed across the sky, giving me a little hope that someone was keeping an eye on me.

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Into the Looking Glass- Chapter I

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I lost myself, if not for a brief moment of my life, the very thought of failing to fulfill the burden I had sworn to was daunting and inescapable.
The tapping of my fingers on the delicate carvings of the staircase left me wandering in ideas about right and wrong, good and evil, and exactly where […]

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I had told her with every word I knew that I loved her. It wasn’t the kind of love I would forget, how could I? It wasn’t even the kind of love I could imagine. My father always laughed at me for having a heart that was courageous enough to brave a minefield of […]

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I couldn’t believe things had gotten so bad so quickly. Stephen had told me things would get worse, but I simply never imagined it would come to this. I told myself that it was all for the better, that this was the duty I swore to.No one, perhaps save a few, would ever understand how […]

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I know its not poetry. This is the prelude to a story I’m finally sitting down and writing. I spent about an hour on it tonight and wanted to get some feedback. It is the first story I’ve written in a long time. Any thoughts or commentary would be great.
Into the Looking Glass, Prelude****************************
It […]

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