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Reader Discretion is advised After a brief pause, he put the two sticks of C4 next to his concoction and plugged a couple more spare wires that were left on the motherboard into the sticks of C4.  He told Calvin to back away, and then asked if he could borrow Dwayne's phone, and then told him to get away from the live bomb.  He plugged his number into Dwayne's phone and started running.  He glanced down and whispered to himself "Oh Shit!" As he realized that he accidentally hit call on the way from the explosion to the 30-foot marker, he hit the dirt and waited.  5...4...3...2...1 he thought to himself and on zero a bang filled the quarry.  He breathed a sigh of relief as he covered his head to protect himself from flying debris. Calvin was watching from the specified distance and thought that something had gone wrong when James hit the deck.  He took a few steps forward, but after a few seconds passed he saw the dust and debris fly...

11/18 - 10:30 pm I have never been this troubled before.  I lay awake tonight, still deeply troubled about what had happened earlier.  I keep looking back at this thinking and contemplating about why this happened.  What had caused this mass explosion of this gift or curse that I have discovered?  Is there more I can do? Or does it stay here? I paused and looked up to the ceiling to at least do some soul searching, and finding myself at a crossroads. So I continued journaling to put my thoughts out on paper What do I do?  Do I explore and see how far I can stretch it? Or just let it be?  You know what: I am going to attempt to explore this new found talent (If you could even call it that) and see if there is more. *** I quickly shut my journal when I heard some footsteps approaching my room.  I quickly shut my journal and turned off my light that was sitting next to me, and got under my covers.  As my mom entered the...

Note: This is a trip into one of the darkest parts of my brain, and this is really scary for me to open this door, but this is real.  Something that I actually deal with every once in awhile.  This is actually my first time opening this door into my mind.  I was debating whether or not to write a story about this, but then I realized no allegory could do this justice.  I am shedding actual tears as I write this, so please understand that this is hard for me to put out there.  I pray that God uses this in more ways than I could ever imagine.  This representation was inspired By NF's Mansion. My mind is like a mansion.  There are several rooms inside, layered into three levels.  Everyone sees my main floor, some people see my room, and fewer people see my basement.  Inside that basement, there is a storage room, and then the saferoom, that no one is allowed in.   The storage room is where all of my best friends get to see, but in...

Warning: Language, and things that you should not try at home.  EVER.  If you do, the police will show up and bad things will ensue.  James asked Roxanne if Kevin had been given anything to eat, and Roxanne said shook her head.  After some convincing on James' part, she decided to make Kevin a turkey sandwich with a side of chips, with a napkin on the side.  James took note of the napkin and then looked around covertly for a pen and had no luck. He picked up the plate and started to look for Kevin.  While he was looking around he found a kid around his age and approached him cautiously.  After a few seconds, James reached him and then crouched to his knees, so that he seems non-threating and closer to the kid's height  to seem friendly, and asked: "Have you seen a kid around your age in here?" The kid nodded and pointed in the direction of a room at the end of the hall.  "Thank you-," he paused for a second to try and remember...

"Let's go, Jake! We have to pack! What's taking so long?" "I'm working on it!" I called back, rushing around trying to pack several sweatshirts into my suitcase.  "It's 10:00 for Pete's sake! We are leaving to get to the airport in 12 hours!" "I'm almost finished! Just let me find my journal and the book I'm reading" "Journal?  What the hell man! Grow a pair." I rolled my eyes, knowing that my dad gets like that sometimes and that it was all in love.  "Done!" I replied, reaching for my carry on that we were allowed to have on the plane.  Not only did the bag carry my journal and the book I was reading currently, but it also carried my laptop and phone.  I was also setting my wallet on my nightstand next to my bed.  I carried my stuff into the entryway and set it down.  After that, I went to my room and went to bed. The next morning I got up with plenty of time to spare.  I...

"Jackson! What are you - Jackson - Jackson!" Rick called desperately, "Jackson - Hello? Are you there?"  He continued to ask.  Bramble, who was tired of waiting for Jackson to continue, eventually smacked his paw against Jackson's face, and Jackson came back to earth.   "Huh?" Jackson asked, clearly unaware that he had been staring off into space for the last couple of minutes asked, "What's going on?" Rick replied, "you were telling us that you had some questions.  You know what, that's enough.  We will continue this conversation in the car on the way to the doctor's office.  Grab my arm, we are going to my ATV.  I want you to hang on to me to prevent you from getting any more hurt than you already clearly are."  Jackson and Rick were on the way out of camp when Rick paused and, assuming that he may have seemed incredibly rude, added "Thank you for taking care of Jackson as you much as you have. I really...

Spoilers if you have not read Firestar's Quest and, well pretty much everything after that book Chronologically  Recently, in the Warriors community, I have seen several People taking a deeper look into the Power of Three and Omen of the Stars, and much to my surprise, I have seen a lot of negative opinions.  Are there better ways that the arcs could have been written?  I agree, but only to a point.  My opinion, however, is that I believe that the arcs are actually planned and to flow like they did for many reasons.   First off, we know that the Erin's planned the Power of Three from early on in the series, and when I say early, I mean around halfway through the Prophecies Begin.  In one of the super editions, Firestar's Quest, something interesting occurs. On pages 338 - 340 Firestar and Skywatcher are having a conversation in front of where Skywatcher had stayed prior to when Firestar and Sandstorm made the trip to ancient Skyclan's territory in ...

I am a huge believer in communication, and right now I am going to communicate to all of you what is going on this month.  First off, I hope you all are enjoying this fall at Tangent, and I hope that you will all keep coming back throughout the fall.  If you have been paying any attention to my Twitter feed within the last 24 hours, you may know that there is something coming.  I am working on whatever that is and will try and get it up by Saturday, but that is looking a little bit sketchy at this moment because midterms are next week.  I would just like to put that on your radar. Also, Pack Mentality is up and running, and I hope you all are enjoying this season as much as I am writing it.  If you did not read my tweets regarding this season, I will just like to emphasize that this season is going to be getting a little bit darker and more intense than last season.  If you like that, then keep up with it.  I know where I am going to be going with it ...

Jackson ran back toward the campground, shaking in fear from what he had experienced, running like there was no tomorrow.  He constantly checked behind him, making sure that no one,  Or thing He thought to himself,   Was behind him.  He continually wiped the blood off the back of his head.  He tripped over another stick and landed on another rock, and everything went gray. It seemed that an instant had passed, and he blinked awake.  Everything was blurry, but he saw a Dark shadowy, and twisted figure in front of him.  When the blurring went away he saw one of the Wolves in The Tribe of the Falling Sun, Taylor the medic of the tribe.  It took him a moment to recognize where he was.   Ok, I'm in the camp of the tribe now, how did I get here? Whats that smell? He thought to himself.  He tried to get up, but Taylor pinned him down and Called Pheonix's Sun over.   He drifted back out of consciousness and he woke up in a wood...

Note: This week I was considering working on my next Warriors article (which is in progress), but then an event that kind of shook me up a little bit occurred, So I am going to take this time to write down my thoughts on the matter, and hopefully make a difference. Those of you who watch the news, and are involved in any sort of media outlet have heard about the little girl who got drilled with a Todd Frazier foul ball, resulting in her getting rushed to the hospital to undergo some repairs and many other things.  The good news is that she is kind of ok.  The last I have heard is that she is in stable-ish condition.  For those of you who have followed this blog in the last couple of years know that I have been around Baseball for like my entire life.  In this article, I am sharing my thoughts on fan safety, along with a couple general rules of thumb that I feel would prevent injuries, and help people fully enjoy a day at the ballpark. In case you didn't hear a...

Jackson was walking through the woods late at night, looking at the stars, shaking his head.  It had been 3 months since the blood moon, where the stars came swiriling down, talking to the Packs that surround Lewis Lake.  These last three months have been really hard for The Tribes to handle.  There have been a lot of territorial scuffles.  One of the leaders had died in a very large battle, and a few of the tribe members in the complex had been starting to lose their faith because the summer had been very dry, and prey was not running as much as they would have preferred, leading to many of the members eating scraps, and coming closer, and closer to where Rick and Jackson were stationed.  They have had to sit on night watch to keep the wolves from harming the visitors who were staying at the campground.   Phoenix's Sun had also had to keep wolves on watch with the two of them. To cap it all off, the Tribes seemed to revert back to their old wa...