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Mark Hebert

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The Ivory Lady

For nearly a hundred and forty years, the first males of each generation of our family have been cursed by The Ivory Lady. No matter what game we play or the odds given, we always win. Most would not see this as a curse but you should hold off on making that assumption until you understand our story. The Ivory Lady is a small figurine about the size of my pinky tip to the first knuckle. It is bright white and similar to a pawn sized queen. When held in sunlight, it twinkles as if it were made from a star. Unfortunately, I cannot begin to tel...

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Two Horizons

Weekly Contest #134

Two HorizonsA Tale From The Silver Exodus SeriesMarcus AbearCopyright February 2022mfabear@icloud.comOn my last morning on earth, I decided to get up early and watch the sunrise for the last time. The eastern horizon turned from dark orange to a brown and yellow haze as the rising sunlight filtered through the dust and gas in the atmosphere. Over the last three weeks the Yellowstone Supervolcano had pumped enough dust and gases into the air that the skies had turned into what I could only explain as LA smog on its worse day.I kept everything...

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