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White Silk: Part 1
List of Chapters Part 1: The Eldest Journey “All men have journeyed far from home. For those who aged and never wandered, can we really call them men?” ~An old Valdashi saying. “No journey that simply...
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White Silk: I.i
List of Chapters Previous Section Everyone in the family has their own tea. We live on it to the point that we end up smelling like it after a while. Because, yeah, it’s true that we get by well enough...
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White Silk: I.ii
List of Chapters Previous Section My grandpa gives me a compass and a map of the kingdoms. Andy gives me a tough hemp rope that she’s been working on for the last long while (I kinda suspected it was...
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[This poem is being posted by popular request. Note that it's a performance piece: If you're reading it quietly to yourself right now, you're doing it wrong.] Words, Words, Words Words, words, words. I...
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White Silk: I.iii
List of Chapters Previous Section “I know the angels will watch over you.” Mom’s the nicest sort. She may true and real believe that the angels are here protecting us, but if so, I ain’t never seen...
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White Silk: Excerpt 1
List of Chapters Previous Section Excerpt from Thrane Calton’s Heretic’s Voyage 1st ed., chpt. 9, par. 4 to 6, incl. footnotes To say that the Wilder people are hardened is not a matter of exaggeration...
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What We Carry: Our Memento Nasci and the Genesis of Identity
The Memorial It has been repeated to me since I was a little boy that I’m named after my grandfather, Robert Blair. And my grandfather … he taught me how to drive. The lessons started long before I...
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Nearventuring: On the Importance of Looking Left
I want to tell you about some of my recent adventures, but first: In early 2010, I moved to Salt Lake City, driven by the desperate need to escape. Utah Valley, where I’d lived for much of my life,...
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White Silk: I.v
List of Chapters Previous Section “I know the angels will watch over you.” Mom’s the nicest sort. She may true and real believe that the angels are here protecting us, but if so, I ain’t never seen...
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White Silk: I.vi
List of Chapters Previous Section Daddy comes back down the ladder maybe three hours after he went to sleep, and not long after that my mum follows. They don’t make racket, exactly, but they get to...
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White Silk: I.vii
List of Chapters Previous Section The black one, like ebony only darker. The one that’s been in our family for ages and ages. I grew up wondering what was inside, just the same as my cousins, my aunts...
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White Silk: I.viii
List of Chapters Previous Section This first trudge to Marsh should be the most dangerous part of my journey, at least if you mark it up hour by hour. Daddy and I know it okay, and more, we know each...
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My Level 50
Over the last three weeks, I did some heavy research into the various apps, programs, and systems that allow you to transform your real life into an RPG. While I like this as a notion for all of my...
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White Silk: I.ix
List of Chapters Previous Section I.ix The arrow flies, but the skrag blurs on, barely grazed and nothing slowed by being hit. Daddy knocks and fires another arrow, but this one hits the ground in...
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While writing is my medium, I am interested by other forms of communication and visual rhetoric—especially since the digital era has opened up so much opportunity for cross-medium storytelling. To give...
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White Silk: I.x
List of Chapters Previous Section I.x This section will be posted on 8/14/13. The post White Silk: I.x appeared first on Robbie Blair Writes.
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“Literally” Broken: How Dictionaries Botched the Definition
As some of you may already be aware, several dictionaries have now accepted the colloquial meaning of “literally,” with Google’s definition being the most recent to shift. The Oxford English Dictionary...
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White Silk: Exc. I.ii
List of Chapters Previous Section Excerpt from Northmage Archives: Major Figures of the Lotus Wars Compilation and editing by Sarren Holt. The effort herein found is the compilation and re-production...
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere on the Internet….
Much of the content I write isn’t posted on this blog. To give you the chance to see all the other work I’ve been doing, I wanted to create this post as an ongoing compilation of my off-site content....
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White Silk: I.xi
List of Chapters Previous Section I.xi Now, Marsh’s got a proper wall. It’s not sharpened branches that build it up. It’s logs. I reckon nearing four strides tall. Sharpened tops, like you’d figure....
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