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		<title>Counting Sheep Never Really Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week my Indie Ink Challenge comes from wMe. The Challenge: I fear its a dream But I can feel its real Please don&#8217;t wake me up This is easily the strangest post that I have ever written. My goal in writing for this challenge was to create something in writing that could successfully match [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=114&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light Shines Through the Cracks of Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Indie Ink Challenge this week comes from Niqui. The challenge: Violin music in the dark This weeks challenge was really hard for me to get done. Not so much because of the prompt (though it did give me some trouble) but because I&#8217;m working 50 hour weeks right now and it&#8217;s been really hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=111&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe We All Just Want to be Ghosts, in the End</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, hey now, looks who&#8217;s back on the Indie Ink Writing Challenge! I took some time off mainly out of pure writing exhaustion, with my reporter job kinda taking all the creative juices out of my head. Writers block sucks. But the last month or so I found myself really wanting to write some fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=107&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And He Will Have Stars Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a week hiatus, I&#8217;m back with the Indie Ink Writing Challenge. My challenge comes from Brad MacDonald. The challenge: Forgiveness, reluctantly given. I really liked this prompt, but unfortunately I was still busy getting settled into my new apartment (and cleaning my old one before the lease expired) that I probably didn&#8217;t give the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=104&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virgil, Save Us From This Inferno</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again, with the Indie Ink Writing Challenge. My prompt this week comes from Greg: Scant minutes remain until your home is engulfed  by the raging forest fire&#8230;gather what you can My first thought on the prompt was to do one of those, &#8220;I would save these possessions because they are important. This is why they are important&#8221; posts. Then I said screw that noise. I decided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=101&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hedonism, Among Other Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Indie Ink Writing Challenge. My challenge this week comes from Bewildered Bug: It&#8217;s my party and I&#8217;ll cry if I want to I don&#8217;t really have much to say about the challenge this week. The story pretty much speaks for itself. (You can read my challenge to Operamouth here: Helix) *************** Everything has gone to shit, I never wanted this, fucking this going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=98&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Which There is No Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for another Indie Ink Writing Challenge. My challenge this week comes from K. Syrah: Describe the violent death scene of someone, and describe as something beautiful. This prompt was right up my alley, thematically speaking. I&#8217;ve always been of the opinion that writing, at least good writing, should be about finding beauty in things that are horrible. I had a few ideas for this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=94&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Certainly the End of Something or Another</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it&#8217;s time for another round of the Indie Ink Writing Challenge. This week I am actually going to put what my prompt was after the story. The reason for this is because I fear that knowing the prompt might spoil what I have now dubbed &#8220;The Something or Another Trilogy.&#8221; (Part I and Part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=92&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Edge of Something or Another</title>
		<link>http://voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/on-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 17:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go with another Indie Ink Writing Challenge. My challenge this week comes from My Plaid Pants: Falling off the edge of the world This challenge has the honor of being a sort of sequel to the very first piece I wrote specifically for this blog, called To Walk Through the Valley of Something or Another. Overall these two works [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=82&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whore.</title>
		<link>http://voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/whore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indie Ink Writing Challenge. Again. My prompt this week comes from Dafeenah, the challenge: There was a 5.8 earthquake today and it got me thinking.  That even if I lost everything, my hate for you would still be intact.  Not much to say except that this piece is pretty dark. I must also admit that I didn&#8217;t put in as much time on it as I should, as I&#8217;ve actually gotten my first paid writing job as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voluntarytourettes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20651637&amp;post=78&amp;subd=voluntarytourettes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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