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DC Special № 13
Strangest Sports Stories Ever Told!
National Periodical Publications, US, June 1971

Comic Book Collecting: A Valuation Guide
Robert M. Overstreet, 1987
Overstreet Publications, US, 1987

Superman: For Tomorrow (Volume 2)
DC Comics, US, 2005
Printed in Canada, first printing
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Penciler: Jim Lee
Inker: Scott Williams
Colourist: Alex Sinclair

An Illustrated History of the Olympics
Dick Schaap, 1963, 1967, 1975, 1976
Ballantine Books Canada, first softcover edition, April 1976

Mind & Body
The Mind Alive Encyclopedia, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1977
Marshall Cavendish Books, UK, 1977
Printed in Great Britain

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Disclaimer: this is fiction. Yes, there is some truth behind it—write what you know and all that—but it is a distortion, an exaggeration, with bits outright conjured from the aether. And it’s just a vignette that needs to find a longer story to live in.

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Here is a place I found in a dream.

Here is a room beside a creek. The creek ran through forests and meadows once. Over time so many bridges crowded together over the creek that now where it flowed could only be called a tunnel. In the tunnel was hidden a door that had once been an exit. Here is behind the door and the forgotten exit is the only entrance.

Born in the 80s, goth is still going strong. Four devotees discuss the music and fashion and how love of the macabre draws together a warm and friendly scene

Goths are perhaps the most maligned of all subcultures. Over the decades, they have been unfairly blamed for high-school shootings, depression in teenagers and antisocial behaviour. In reality, goths are a collective of people bound by a shared love of fashion, music and art.

I literally caught a wild bird in my hand this morning. That doesn't happen every day.

I sat down at my computer this morning and out the window in front of me a small bird (bushtit, I think) was zooming at the bird-net I have enclosing my balcony. Primarily it is there to keep the cats *in*, but has the bonus functions of keeping crows from stealing from my cherry tree and ensuring the cats are safe from unlikely-but-worth-worrying-about rabid bats.