Thaumaturgy
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Followup to ‘How do I think of these things’

ByRichard Verry

Followup to ‘How do I think of these things’ In my last article, I wrote about how I come up with my ideas for my books. I received several comments from people who read my books. I found them interesting. The first comment comes from a reader who read my first book, ‘The Taste of…

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Word of the Day: evanescent

ByRichard Verry

Word of the Day: evanescent evanescent (adjective) ev-uh-NESS-unt Definition : tending to vanish like vapor Synonymons brief; disappearing; elusive; elusory; ephemeral; fading; fleeting; illusory; indefinable; insubstantial; intangible; momentary; passing; short-lived; temporary; tenuous; transitory; vanishing Examples “As stunning as his dishes could be, in the end, the maestro understood its evanescent nature. Furstenberg remembers Richard telling him, ‘It’s…

Happy Saturday
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Happy Saturday

ByRichard Verry

Happy Saturday That’s right. The weekend is here. Two whole days of not having to go to work. Two whole days of skipping the grind that pays the bills and keeps food in my belly and a roof over my head. It’s a beautiful day here in Rochester, NY. Blue sky without a cloud in…

Get Your Blood Moving
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Get Your Blood Moving

ByRichard Verry

Get Your Blood Moving Is there a song that once it starts playing on the stereo, you just have to stop what you’re doing, turn up the volume and lose yourself to the music? One of those songs that does that to me is Sir Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die‘. The title song to…

Gratitude
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Gratitude

ByRichard Verry

Gratitude What is gratitude? The way I see it, it is being thankful for someone or something that enriched a person’s life. The way I feel when I see people buying my books. Thank you. You are all awesome. A special thank you to those that recently purchased ‘The Taste of Honey‘ and ‘Broken Steele‘….

Thank you
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Thank you

ByRichard Verry

Thank you A new fantastic review of ‘The Taste of Honey’ appeared on Amazon the other day. Thank you Reenie K for your comments. I do appreciate them. BTW, I hope your prophecy comes true. Wouldn’t that be something. Gotta keep writing, that’s all there is to it. I also want to thank all of…

Mona's Societies DNA
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Cultural Changes of The ‘Purge Plague’ (Part 5)

ByRichard Verry

Cultural Changes caused by The Purge Plague Over the last four segments, I wrote about the roots of the plague and the causal effects on Mona’s community. In this segment, I cover the cultural effects which resulted. It should be noted that while the plague was halted, it was not eradicated. Over centuries, people made many attempts to…

Mona's Societies DNA
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The ‘Purge Plague’ (Part 4): Physical Changes

ByRichard Verry

Physical Changes caused by The Purge Plague Besides high male mortality rates and a shift in a woman’s difficulty in carrying children, there were other changes to human physiology. The last-ditch gene splicing efforts manifested itself in significant physical changes to the human body. Woman tended to have longer legs, shorter torso, wider hips and fuller breasts….

Mona's Societies DNA
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Consequences: The ‘Purge Plague’ (Part 3)

ByRichard Verry

The Purge Plague: Consequences Solving the human extinction event wasn’t without its consequences. Besides finding an alternate food source, other changes occurred. The new genome made significant changes to human physiology. Sickness had been wiped out. The common cold, cancer, infections, and the various maladies associated in pre-plague days were nonexistent. Within one hundred years, no…

Mona's Societies DNA
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The ‘Purge Plague’ (Part 2) : Extinction?

ByRichard Verry

Extinction – The Purge Plague initiates an unstoppable event Resolving the runaway genome infection among human populations was not without its perils. The plague had already caused the extinction of almost all life on the planet. While it was too late to save the other species, scientists at the time saved what they could. It became a…