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  • Perfect Faith

    Posted by rblackbird on April 27, 2013

    “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”  ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

    Very good friends of mine, they call me the Philosopher, in the tradition of a certain alien Doctor I hope you’re nerd enough to have …

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  • Essay Contest Winner: “To Be Clean”

    Posted by rblackbird on April 1, 2013

    by M. E. B.

    I went to get a drink of water, and I realized that dirt had gotten into the glass. I had to dump out the whole glass of water into the sink before I got the all the dirt out. Then I realized, the glass is just like my mind. My mind is essential to my life, it sends signals to my heart to …

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  • The Sydney West Essay Contest

    Posted by rblackbird on January 27, 2013

    “The divisions in the common public are defined in many ways. It’s the differences the definers hold most important that may not only tell us something about those they speak of, but the speakers, themselves.” – Sydney West, p.1

    Have an opinion on books, movies, and music? How well can you write it down?

    Why is it important to …

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  • E Pluribus Unum

    Posted by rblackbird on January 2, 2013

    Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Last Tycoon

    Sometimes it gets hard to me to realize just how …

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  • Obligatory New Year’s Eve Post

    Posted by rblackbird on December 31, 2012

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  • The Lorem Ipsum Soundtrack

    Posted by rblackbird on December 27, 2012

    Usually, I’d just throw up a list with the cover and be done with it, but I’ve put up three of these soundtracks so far so I thought it would be well worth explaining just why I go through the trouble. I only use rules when they have practical application. I used to be the kind of person who’d go …

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  • To Knit: Sirius Socks

    Posted by rblackbird on December 24, 2012

     

    “He was a strong-looking man with a rectangular face and short brown hair. He looked like some sort of large tree — immovable and strong. His gray eyes looked over a pair of small spectacles to the man in the hammock, then to Peter.”

    The Storytellers: Atlantis, p. 43

     

     

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  • Night Colors

    Posted by rblackbird on December 19, 2012

    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

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  • To Knit: Eltanin Hood

    Posted by blackbirdbooksadmin on December 7, 2012

    “The pale woman hovered around the crew in her usual elegant dress, but with the addition of a large, pointed hood, which easily hid her large, pointed ears.”

    - The Storytellers: Anterria, p. 121

    Eltanin had always been a strange combination of princess, knight, and odd, batlike creature. She was inspired directly …

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  • Lorem Ipsum (Sydney West #2) – Chapter 1

    Posted by rblackbird on November 29, 2012

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    Life flows in a strict progression. Time, however, is a fickle creature. It shrinks and grows dependent on perception, and is a measurement wholly relative to itself. Memory can seemingly bring you backward in time; nothing can bring you forward except life. The nature of life is all that stabilizes the violence of …

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