This is what I'm currently reading and I don't really care for it. It's about some guy who apparently just gets reborn everytime he dies, same place/ time etc. and so far its about all of hisl ives and the world is ending?? I dunno

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I try to post something once a week. My friend Dani is supposed to be shooting pictures but she's been neglecting it so we'll see.
 

This phrase, and ones similar to it, have been spoken throughout generations. Teachers, parents, leaders, they have all said it, and everyone has heard it. Not once or twice but a hundred thousand times.

If everyone had a super power then what would the world even be? Just a bunch of beefed up super dudes bro fisting each other so hard that they collapse a nearby building. I get it, not everybody is special, but that doesn’t stop us from dreaming.

Nobody knows how the heroes came to be, there are the rumors and tinfoil hat theories. Most people? They just don’t care. They go about their normal lives, with some minor hero inconveniences. Don’t even get me started on how many days I’ve been late because a hero thought the train was due to explode. But overall, I think the world has been a safer place because of it.

Some kids are obviously going to be heroes. Joey is the fastest kid on the track team and I guarantee once he hits 20, he’ll get that letter and that switch will be turned on. He’ll go from Joey the fast kid to TURBO JOE. Me? I’m destined to be nobody. I guess I’m okay with that. I’m pretty shy anyways, I’d rather watch people or read about the things they’ve done. Sometimes I like to imagine I get that letter. "You are a hero." I’ll be 20 in a week and the closer I get, the more unrealistic my expectations are becoming.

One night over a dinner of pizza pockets, my best friend Kenny slams the question on me. “So what are you going to do if you’re not a hero?” Easy for him to say. He comes from a family of heroes, he’s almost guaranteed a free hero pass. I shrug my shoulders and pop another pizza pocket in my mouth. “Continue my journalism degree, I suppose. That was the plan all along right?” Kenny shrugs his shoulders. “I guess, it just seems so lame.” I agree. Journalism is kind of lame compared to super hero powers.

On the morning of my 20th birthday, I woke up in a cold sweat. This was it. I was 20 years old and today I would either be a man or a hero. Nobody who is a hero can tell you how they found out. It's super secret, so I’m not really sure what to expect. I hang around in my apartment, attempting to do things to occupy myself but I give up when the doorbell rings. My heart stops. It isn’t Kenny, he has a key. I run to the door but stop short of ripping it open. Stay calm. Breathe.

I open the door. Nobody's there. I look down the hall for the neighborhood kids. That's when I see it: a small slip of white paper with my name on it. I rip the paper from my door handle and slam the door. Sinking to my knees, I hold the paper in front of my eyes. My hands are sweating, my heart is racing. I take one deep breath and open up the paper.

HEROES BUREAU

111 SECRET HIDE OUT AVE

Future Hero,

We here at the Heroes Bureau wish to welcome you to the status of elite. You have been chosen among your peers as a candidate for Super Hero status. Below you will find your power and additional information about the --

I skip the rest. I go to the bottom of the page.

I, Morgan Freeman, am The Narrator.

I smile. "I am a hero" I whisper, and above me my voice booms among the clouds.

This is a serial series by two unpublished authors. I personally know Jade but regardless it's an incredible series so far and you should look into it

As a child, I did not feel much love if any love from my mother and as a young girl who dreams were bigger than her blue eyes, that is all that I wanted.  Instead, that love was replaced by repeated physical beatings that left me bruised, scarred and scratches covering my face, humiliations privately and publicly, and constant emotional threats being made against my well-being that left me in shambles.  That little girl who one day dreamed of a knight in shining armor taking her away from that place and showing her the world was quickly fading.

I often would do small things to see if my mother would stop her relenting abuse such as completing chores when I was not asked or even just hiding in my room escaping to a world of blonde Barbie dolls and their plastic headed boyfriends that to me were beautiful, loved, and perfect in every way, because I was in control of their well-being and I was determined to not let another human being or possession of mine feel like they were a waste of perfectly good air space as I so often did.

Yes, someone seriously wrote an erotic fan-fiction digital novella..... about a paperclip.

Christie Aackerlund doesn't need help with anything. So when the world's biggest technology company offers to fly her to a remote location and investigate an alien artifact, all by herself, she's all like "I'll do it! But the artifact isn't what it seems, and soon an overly helpful giant living paperclip is getting her all bent out of shape.

I'm afraid, very afraid, but I can't wait to check out the user reviews of this in a few weeks once word starts getting around the internet.

“You could tie my tongue
My lips, my teeth
Split them into surrender
Into a foreign language
And I would still manage
To cough up your name.”

- Danielle Shorr, “Let”

“They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.”

- Katelin Wagner, “Disappearing Acts (after Miles Hodges)”

Our love is hitchhiking across the California desert
and no one is slowing down. Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty? You’re saying you don’t know
what you want and I’m picking pieces of glass
from your throat. Something is burning but I can’t
tell what it is. I’ve had a nightmare every night
since I was a kid and it always ends the same.
I can’t breathe and I can’t move and I am stuck
in this place without air in my lungs. This is all to say
I think I knew you before I knew my own name.

- Fortesa Latifi, “1-10″

“You are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name.”

- Warsan Shire, “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love”

“I realized that the act of falling in love is not so much a falling as a desperate, terrifying leap off the highest building around, the kind of jump that ends in not just a single casualty, but two.”

- Meggie Royer, “Not So Much Falling In Love As Leaping Into It”

“and I pick
up her lovely
dress,
all her loveliness gone,
and I speak to all the gods,
Jewish gods, Christ-gods,
chips of blinking things,
idols, pills, bread,
fathoms, risks,
knowledgeable surrender,
rats in the gravy of two gone quite mad
without a chance,
hummingbird knowledge, hummingbird chance,
I lean upon this,
I lean on all of this
and I know
her dress upon my arm
but
they will not
give her back to me.”

- Charles Bukowski, “For Jane: With All the Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough”'

“He used to love me,
and now
he’s just a stranger
who happens to know
all my secrets.”

- Clementine Von Radics, “It’s Just So Strange”

What's it about (without spoilers!) Do you think you'd recommend it to a friend?

R. A. Montgomery began creating what has now become the 4th best selling childrens series of all time in 1977 with the release of Journey Under the Sea.

I have to admit for me this is sad because when I was growing up I friggin' LOVED these books and read them over and over.  Sure, I would cheat sometimes and try to backwards figure out the best way to "get through" the books but they were really fun. 

Anyone else grow up with these books?  Did you have any favorites?

I loved ones like The Forbidden Castle, The Dragon's Den, Spy for George Washington, Space Patrol and also The Third Planet from Altair.

Just read this and it was really interesting. Not the kind of "interesting" your lady says to you after explaining the adult cartoon you've been watching, either. Good interesting. If you've played table top games or ever got into a good RPG game, you will like this book. The end is a bit predictable, but I don't know how the author could have pulled it off any other way.

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Been going through a bunch of my dad's old comics that I helped him store and bag and put away when I was a little kid that we all completely forgot about and I ran across this gem

.... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.  You're looking at Avenger's issue #1, original from 1963 and in pretty fantastic condition despite the stupid camera phone picture (picture was taken in low light basement so I had to brighten it up a little).  No rips, no tears, all pages intact and unstained, cover in great shape and no stickers (the sticker on the front is on the plastic sleeve, not the comic).  It's bagged and sleeved but I'm thinking it should probably be professionally "graded" and "appraised". 

Just going through some of this stuff it looks like he has at least issues 1-8 of Avengers, a whole bunch of old and early run Fantastic Four, Thor, Spiderman, Batman and a ridiculous amount of other crap.  I'm feeling a little overwhelmed but from what I read that Avenger's #1 is probably worth a decent amount of money.  It's not "mint" condition, but I did a little reading and an article popped up that one went at auction that was like a 9.6 grade or something for close to $270k so this one has to be worth at LEAST a few thousand if not a lot more.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/260786634646716916/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac

Has anyone else ever read this series?

-Buddha

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Alex Heton is living a second life and so is his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend, Chloe. After a man tries to kill both of them in a restaurant, they reveal to each other that they are the reincarnated bodies and minds of Alexander the Great and Joan of Arc.

Before long, they find out that there are many out there like themselves, from Eliot Ness to a thirteen-year-old Albert Einstein. As the group tries to band together and figure out how they have returned, they are hunted by a crazed killer who is just like them: a returner. Can they figure out who the killer is in time? Will they find out how they managed to retain all of their memories from a previous life? How many returners are there?

A mysterious stranger appears in Corpus Christi, Texas as a Category-5 hurricane rolls in off the coast. As families make an attempt to prepare for the worst, they have no idea that they have front-row seats to the beginning of the Apocalypse.

The Four Horsemen have come down to end it all.

The stranger is looking for a young-boy named Caleb Hodes, a boy that might be the key to stopping the world from ending.

But how do you save the world when God is the one trying to destroy it?

The Ending by Mikey Neumann (The Returners, Borderlands) is an epic for a new generation of readers. It raises questions of faith, creation and existence against an action-packed coming-of-age story.

Since the novels from "BOZ." Publishing are published serially, this is the first of three parts from the novel "The Ending: An Apocalypse."

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I'm left in a spinning circle, with nowhere to go.

I wish to keep in touch with a life left without repair.

I can only keep moving on, with comfort in what I know.

Life will lead me out, just as it led me in.

I can only guess the outcome, and never know the end.

I'll make it through the struggle that started from within.

I don't know where I'm going, but have the knowledge of where I've been.

I feel the pull of temptation, and I can't help but to relent.

The mistakes I've made today I will pay for with regret.

I can only hope my salvation lies in my ability to repent.

Though, life is a hard road, I know my path is never set.

To the end of it all I will travel, with searching eyes.

And only at the last moment of it all will I say my goodbyes.