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Where rainbows end

Once upon a time there was Bobby.  Bobby was in his 70's, long white hair and he was wearing corduroy pants. He'd sometimes take a drive someplace he had been to a long time ago. There were moments when he encountered something that would awake memories in him, pictures of the past that hadn't crossed his mind in a while. He remembered his old mate Pete once saying: "You know I could die tomorrow and I'd die happy in a way to think that other people were singing my songs." Bobby sang Pete's songs sometimes. Pete was inspired by what he read. But also by what he saw and whom he met. He met a white man who walked a black dog. He met a young woman whose body was burning. He met a young girl, she gave him a rainbow. Bobby drove in his car and thought of Pete. A good friend, who died happily.

The peculiar life of Spuge

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There are unexplainable things, no mind can comprehend. Spuge was a most peculiar man living in a town not so far from another bigger city. A philosopher he was, looking at the world and wondering: How come and Why? His neighbors had a cherry tree. Not so common in these latitudes, the arctic circle not too far away in the distance. Come summer the cherries were green. Come autumn, they were dark red. Ready to be harvested. But nobody did harvest them. Day after day, he passed the tempting cherry tree with it's deliciously red cherries. What kind of people were there as his neighbors, letting the cherries to rot? Should he steal some during the shadows of the night? What kind of man would that make out of him, a robber? He found joy in walking for hours on in the pouring rain. It gave him the utter experience of feeling alive. Drenched in water and cold he would walk through the highlands. With no soul to be found. April come she will, t

Ane the charlatan

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Once upon a time there was a young woman named Ane. A strange name but odd she was indeed. She was an environmental activist and wouldn't ever fly on an airplane or drive a car or take a bus or train since it was not sustainable. She truly believed that one persons actions and the renunciation of such methods of transportation could absolutely have an impact. Ane believed that she herself would be able to stop the climate from changing. So all she did was cycle on her fancy bike. However she had a medical condition that a highly accomplished doctor was able to diagnose on the first of June 2022. It was called levi fatigatione cursus viverra, an universally rare condition only diagnosed two times before. The utterly irritating symptom Ane had to live with was yawning every single time she stopped at a traffic light while biking to or from her work place. Were lights red, she yawned and she couldn't stop herself from doing so. Proper medication was not