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People often say that the rich, in general, are a corrupt and greedy lot.This was not true in the case of the Anderson family.Born poor, Lawrence Anderson worked extremely hard to make a name for himself in the world. Eventually, though, he opened a restaurant chain that used recipes he and his family devised. Through this, Lawrence had become a very successful cook and entrepreneur, and created a lot of secure, decently-paying jobs for poor and homeless people. Although he was a businessman and, naturally, pragmatic, Lawrence also had a strong moral code.He was a kind man, with a beloved family that he ALWAYS put first. Especially his onl...

The Black Rose: Chapter 1: Miracle or Plague?   Flash.   FLASH. Black passed by a group of people, a feather dropped to the ground. A girl picked it up and looked upward, staring straight up at the feared yet appreciated protagonist of Portland, Ore. Some found her to be a menace, a faux-batman of the real world or some what of a nut job. Others found her to be an angel sent straight from heaven above or the flying policewoman sent to save them all from unknown doom. Unfortunately, no one could put a name to her face, nor could they understand how she became.   "The Black Rose " they called her.. the reason was more than simple. When she f...

    *******     It was dark by the time they returned to the Akimichi compound. Choji was waiting for them outside the meeting hall. Inside the hall, the lights were all ablaze, and she could hear the murmur of voices.  She knew for certain that one of them was Naruto’s, she could recognize that loudmouth’s tenor anywhere, but among the more quiet rumblings she thought she could pick out Sasuke. Despite the urgency in Choji’s message, she couldn’t help but ask, “Are they… actually talking in there? Like really meeting?”     Choji shrugged and then nodded. “I think so… Inu-san is in there with all of his ANBU, providing an ‘honor guard’ but...

I woke up slowly, blinking in the warm sunshine streaming through the lace curtains.  Yawning, I stretched, taking my time.  The full impact of where I was and what I was doing had me bouncing out of bed.  Throwing on a robe, I opened the French doors and walked out on my small balcony.  How nice of Signora Lucian to give me this room!  I gripped the railing and leaned out, taking deep draughts of the sea air.  The balcony didn't have a view of the sea, but I could see the windmills on the cliffs.  Squealing like a teenager, I whirled and dashed back into my room.  The day was calling me!*   *   *Signora Lucian smiled as I skipped into the...

               They say that everyone has a dark side.  I guess 'they' would say that my dark side is irrationally suicidal and paranoid.  Perhaps 'they' would even go into more detail about my faults, because much of it is in my medical records, but they always call the bad things 'the dark side'. It's colorism, right?  If I say that my mania, generosity, and explosiveness are actually the dark side because they made me expose myself to others and thus, eventually, show them the other, less pleasant behaviors, 'they' would tell me I was playing at semantics. Of course.  Semantics.  Just ask any of my ex-girlfriends about me and semantics....

Deep Dive System 3 “Memory breeds in me a strange loneliness.” –William Herbert Carruth   It had started some 10 years ago now.  I had gotten an email from a friend of a friend who had contacted me with a job, opportunity, really. I jumped at it not because I really wanted to do it, but because I was aching for something, anything to get me out of the ditch I had felt my life had fallen into; feeling cheated by humanity in general. I was just out of a nastily ended relationship that should have been killed before it had a chance to start, but I went along with it because I felt like screwing with myself, possibly. I can see no other reas...

Chapter 31 Halleluiah Mountains, Sector 21, Pandora 19:44 Hours HGT, September 24, 2155 COUNTDOWN: 63 Terrestrial Days Elapsed Since Orbit Sigma Team's stealth chopper was piloted by a short, heavyset woman with a deep Louisiana accent. Sargent Chacón didn't realize how much she missed having Boyscout at the controls until he wasn't there any more. Despite her misgivings, they managed to touch down safely and quietly on the shore of the small, oil-black lake that was their designated landing point. Trudy was the first of her trike team to set her matte-black boots in the jungle mud. She carried a lot more gear than she was used to...

[Author's Note: I had planned to get this out on the day of Christmas, but the same event had stopped me from finishing the part on time. Sorry for the wait.] ___________________ Kingdom: Paradise, Location: Above Praugaur, Time: 2:22 ~ 8:88 PM ___________________ "Father?" Joseph asked.He had came to ask Y/N about what happened not even a few hours ago, he only just found him now on the balcony of his temporary room on the Gaia. It was Joseph's question to Y/N. He sat silently gazing off onto the stars as if he was contemplating the universe itself and its many mysterious paths.Mysteries of This world were soon to be uncovered. The Kin...

Changing Your Sex Changes Your Brain - Article Review Topic: LGBTQ Topic Regarding Brain Re-wiring From H.R.T. ARTICLE: Changing your sex changes your brain: influences of testosterone and estrogen on adult human brain structure AUTHORS: Hilleke E Hulshoff Pol, Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis1, Neeltje E M Van Haren, Jiska S Peper, Rachel G H Brans, Wiepke Cahn, Hugo G Schnack, Louis J G Gooren2 and René S Kahn AFFILIATIONS: Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, A01.126, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1Department of Medical Psychology and 2Department of End...

(your POV)I was starting to wish I could be eaten by a titan.... Well not really, but really? Corporal had to make me run laps just because I forgot to clean his already spotless office. IT WAS PERFECTLY CLEAN ANYWAYS!!!! Apparently he hadn't thought so. After checking his office he'd come up to me and yelled about cleaning and whatnot. (A/n: I could imagine him in a shrine to Windex and Mr. Clean) Now I was supposed to run until my legs gave out. I'd graduated from the 104th cadet group early because of my skills and ended up being placed in the Special Ops Squad. In other words, the squad that listens to everything Corporal Levi says and...

Entrance: Infernape jumps and flips onscreen, rolling in midair to surround himself with fire before landing, putting the flames out, and screeching at the camera. Flint then runs up behind him and points at the camera with a grin.Exit: Infernape throws his arms out and screeches, the fire on his head intensifying greatly, while Flint clenches his fists with a smirk.Standard (Light): Punches Standard (Medium): Kicks Standard (Heavy): Does a flaming roundhouse kick Launcher: Does a flaming flip kick Aerial (Light): Kicks Aerial (Medium): Punches Aerial (Heavy): Does a fiery axe kick Crouching (Light): Kicks Crouching (Medium): Sweep Kick Cr...

Clash of RealmsCHP56: Wolf in the Loop"Hhhhhmmm, ahhhh!" Morrigan gasped suddenly with what she believed to be tears in her green emerald eyes as she laid over her soft mattress and cherry red covering her fair-skin slender yet curvaceous figure with her long green hair loose around her face and some sticking to her beautiful but damp face.What was this, why was she feeling this way? That was only the initial thought, but then it all came back to her."A….Eh….?"The succubus couldn't finish her sentence as her heart was pounding harder as if she ran an entire marathon and forced to fight solo with dozens of S class monsters."Oh….So you're fi...

Another handful of quiet days passed before Sawyer got an opportunity to visit Adrian- they still had a life to live in the walls, after all, and since Sawyer now had much of the responsibility of keeping the household running on his own shoulders he stayed busier than he had before. Even so, eventually he realized Adrian was due for an update, and after informing Charlie and Oscar where he was going he headed out to do just that.He remembered just in time to snag the letter off the counter on his way. He reread it to himself with a small smile even as he jogged down the stairs and set off towards the living room.Adrian was at his desk, as...