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Ian Payton

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The Age of Calamities

by Senaa Ahmad

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“ “I’m not going to shout at you,” he shouted.”
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May 03, 2026 02:36AM

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Breakaway (Space 1999, #1)

by E.C. Tubb

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May 03, 2026 01:52AM

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Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth: Poems about life, death, and the odd bits in between

by Robin Ince

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Carrie by Stephen King

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An ancient pinball machine that always tilted on the third ball stuttered lights on and off in the back beside the rack of dirty books.

My brain is cluttered with a fair amount of useless knowledge about the internals of pinball machines, and I can’t think of any failure mode that would cause a tilt when a specific ball was in play. I suspect Mr. King hadn’t intended me to get hung up on that, though.

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:)) The complexity of our brain

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Yes! And I can't help thinking that the space taken up with random pinball information might be better used on something else :-D

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Ian’s Quotes

“Boys learn, formally or informally, that it’s inappropriate to express emotion. And if you violate these rules, there are social costs associated with that.’ So boys learn to rein it in.”
― Max Dickins, Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

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