Archive for 'Herald Literary Suppository'

Green Lantern Core’s Heroic Epic Poetry

Failure of PN’s rumored friday griefing raid causes super hero to wax poetic [GreenLantern Excelsior sent this tale of online heroics to the Herald offices via the mojo wire saturday, with a note saying "I was inspired to write this after the big PN raid last night ended up fizzling like a wet firecracker". Is [...]

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The Airship

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate I was lying on my back, looking at the starsWhen an airship passed between myself and MarsGracefully it drifted in the moonlit nightAll it’s sails full, it’s balloon was glowing bright The wooden ship that hung from the large balloonHad lanterns all alit, and I could hear a tunePlayed on [...]

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YAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon – Two Points Off The Wind And Coming Fast

by Tiny Newt [last week's episode is here] Banished earlier from Sanctum Sanctorum Island by the owner Baron Greyson, King Fish Overdrive was ignobly forced to wait offshore in his leaky ship. King Fish was a cocky, powerful fighter whose only admitted vice was the demon rum. He had smuggled two full barrels aboard his [...]

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YAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon – Longjohnson Swindlehurst Ponders His Next Move

by Tiny Newt [last week's episode is here] Meanwhile, on the Island of Sanctum Sanctorum, eighty leagues due west by south of Sanchon, Longjohnson Swindlehurst stood by the cracking fire pondering his next move. The ruined castle of the Baron Grayson made a perfect hideout for the old seadog Swindlehurst. The accommodations were sumptuous by [...]

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Lag

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate The cowboy said ‘Draw your piece’And he blew me all to rags;My gun went off when he had left,I die while Linden lags. I flew into a secured land,I had 1 minute to pack my bags;Now I’m banned from my friend’s land,Alone while Linden lags. The pirates will do battle [...]

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YAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon – You’ll Pay Double For That

by Tiny Newt [for those joining us mid-story the previous episode is here] “YOU’LL PAY DOUBLE FOR THAT!” Sin Trenton’s Slovakian accent was thick with threat. The Navigator was beside himself with fury. “Save yourself for the melee. She’s the a wily one.” Tiny cautioned. As is the custom with the pirates of Sanchon, the [...]

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Your Second Life

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate Come writers and artists, designers and geeks;Builders and gamers, lovers and freaks;Those whose dreams have been trampled and burned;The hated, the ugly, the crippled, the spurned. Come now all people from all walks of life;From every nation, come husband and wife.Come singles and widows, come partners who bideIn small apartments [...]

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YAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon

by Tiny Newt [the Herald's literary thursday tradition levels up with the resumption of the Pirates of Sanchon series - now a continuing weekly feature - the Editrix] The captain and crew of the barque HMS Endeavour, a 400 ton SL replica of Captain Cook’ ship of 1860, find themselves press-ganged into fighting a series [...]

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Clear Blue Sea

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate I rezzed my ship on a clear blue seaUnder midnight stars and tranquilitySurrounded me and my solitudeRefreshed my mind and attitude Then I set sail around the simWhere mountains stand and fishes swimI heard the splash of pixelled waveThe electronic call the seaguls gave And when I shut down for [...]

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The Strange Case of Teddy29

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate Across the sims of Second LifeA story has been toldOf Teddy29 Barthelmess, (Jerry Matthew Gold). How, in despair, a young girl thereWas thinking of the endWhen Teddy29 sat by her sideAnd became her closest friend From the pits of despair to SL, whereHe showed her heaven, paintedWith particle clouds and [...]

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