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The nearest star to Earth, save for the Sun, is Alpha Centauri, at approximately 4.24 light-years away, which means that it takes four years for the light to reach Earth.  With the naked eye, a person can see stars up to the sixth magnitude after their eyes have become “dark-adapted,” that is, all sources of light must be eliminated and, after being in the dark for about twenty minutes time, a person can see stars up to that magnitude, and the estimated number of known stars that can be seen unaided is about six thousand in both hemispheres, so three thousand per hemisphere.   The Andromeda galaxy is the furthest object in the nig

"Camus said that the only true function of man, born into an absurd world, is to live, be aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom.  He said that if the only solution to the human dilemma is death, then we are on the wrong road.  The right track is the one that leads to life, to sunlight.  One cannot unceasingly suffer from the cold. […]  The track he followed led into the sunlight in being that one devoted to making with our frail powers and our absurd material,  something which had not existed in life until we made it."- William Faulkner "Betrayals, even your own, can surprise you.  They can make you do things."-Lorrie Moore

1019 LC Adur White is the perfect canvas for blood.  Camus had once wondered why the Solarians would dress their soldiers head to toe in such a way.  But now, he realized.  The way the vermillion streaked across the blank purity was shocking.   They had stripped the girl of her regalia, leaving nothing but blank undergarments.  Her skin blended with the cloth—she was ghostly pale.  He didn’t know if it was from the drugs, the loss of blood, or that she was simply stretched thin from the constant pain that the Cabal had inflicted over the past week. She was a heap of red and white on the floor, still as a corpse.  It was strange f

i am accused of being a category five--     but i will not excuse the way my skin aches. i want storms.    i remember the way Katrina screamed &    if you press your ear to my chest you will hear the same. the moan turning into a pitch, the pitch screaming until the throat is too raw to be more than a whimper. the way it stops and pauses, silently racked until it bursts forth once more. i will not apologize for being demolition. scars exist on every woman too powerful to contain herself.

The nearest star to Earth, save for the Sun, is Alpha Centauri, at approximately 4.24 light-years away, which means that it takes four years for the light to reach Earth.  With the naked eye, a person can see stars up to the sixth magnitude after their eyes have become “dark-adapted,” that is, all sources of light must be eliminated and, after being in the dark for about twenty minutes time, a person can see stars up to that magnitude, and the estimated number of known stars that can be seen unaided is about six thousand in both hemispheres, so three thousand per hemisphere.   The Andromeda galaxy is the furthest object in the nig

Author-Fan Interactions:  Community Participation in Creative Works Introduction            Fans have become integral in the production of new media.  In Paul Booth’s book Digital Fandom, he defines Digital Fandom as a way of studying how a work is created by a collective community.   My work here is informed by his study; in this thesis, I will be looking at the deviantArt internet community as a whole and then focusing in on a much smaller grouping of fans: those of my own serial work, Lifrasir Wars.  Through an autoethnographical approach, I will look at how a small fan community can shape the creation of a canonical text when the

This is an old version of this work.  I am leaving it up simply because it has been featured many times and I don't want to break the features links.  Please visit the link in the artist's comments to view the most recent version of this story.  Thank you for your support. "Camus said that the only true function of man, born into an absurd world, is to live, be aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom.  He said that if the only solution to the human dilemma is death, then we are on the wrong road.  The right track is the one that leads to life, to sunlight.  One cannot unceasingly suffer from the cold. [