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Lightning flashed across the craggy face

  • Lightning flashed across the craggy face of the mountain as I lifted my head against the pelting rain. I welcomed the storm. It seemed a fitting backdrop for what lay ahead.

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  • Heading for a nearby cave, I paused to remove my shoes, leaving them outside to fill with rainwater as I ducked within and removed the rest of my clothes. Then, smearing myself wit

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  • h ash and goose grease I put my rainwater filled shoes back on and caught the next train to Carlisle. The November wind whipped over my naked body and purple blotches formed on my

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  • swimsuit areas. All the way to Carlisle I thought about those purple blotches. Skin discolorations used to be a mark of evil. Satan's kisses, they used to call them. But these

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  • Were deep purple and indicated partying the night before. When I arrived at Carlisle, I was surprised to find the harvest festival going on and pick up some free apples and pears.

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  • I also plucked several harvest queens in the Amon Ra tent. All in all, my Carlisle trip was a success and yielded the supplies we needed to continue out investigations into the da

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  • -daist landscape. We called it 'surrealist camping' and began giving tours. "This is not a tent" we stenciled on each tent, and we were careful to keep all pocket watches as flabby

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  • as brains would allow. Anachronism Gardens became the choice spot for The Church of The SubGenius and The Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster worshipers to verbally abuse each

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  • other. Then the Mormons showed up, claiming they were “out there” along with those other cults. When the SubGenius and Flying Spaghetti Monster kooks objected, the Mormons revealed

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  • the pickled remains of Drozad-7--Prophet, Alien. Drozad-7, they explained, was the reason humanity came to be. This was the hidden teaching of Mormonism known only by a select few.

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1 Comments

  1. Woab May 28 2020 @ 15:11

    I would say that this story is intense, but maybe they weren't tents after all.

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