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		<title>Four: The Dark Mansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is written that couples are made by the Grandfather&#8217;s hands; he who lives on the moon weaving families together with his red string. It is said that until their fates have been met and destinies completed, their strings will forever knot and twist; bend but never break. It is heard that to be tied [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=157&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Heart of My Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ll grow a heart of my own someday. And it&#8217;ll love me like I thought yours used to.
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		<title>A World So Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Let&#8217;s stop our hectic schedules, pause our reckless lifestyles and remember the person we once were, surrounded by people we once thought we knew. Those sweet times when reality was far from the truth, but it would have to do for then. Let&#8217;s take a look back to those days when we were praised for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=212&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love Letter</title>
		<link>http://illusionistic.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/love-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Phoebe,
Aden&#8230;
I have something to confess and this is no lie. But I have waited ten years too many to say what I have to say to you and now such words are better left on paper. Do you know the number of drafts I&#8217;ve gone through, only to have it wrinkled and washed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=161&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three: Chamber of Avici</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boy raised his hands to clutch at his executioner&#8217;s arms, arms that did not know the definition of mercy. Little did he know that the nerves in his body had long been restricted by millions of microscopic needles shot through him seconds before. He heard his own endless scream rise up and out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=132&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two: The Underworld Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They had lived their whole lives for this day; he had waited ten grueling years of his life for this moment to come. He had done everything in his power not to get himself killed and now he stood before his brother in their rundown basement, burnt decades before his birth, with his left arm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=113&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One: The Yellow Spring</title>
		<link>http://illusionistic.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/the-yellow-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hell. He was in Hell.
&#8220;H-E-L-L.&#8221; the girl spelled out for him, her scratchy voice rising higher in pitch for each letter.
Great, he thought.This is fantastic. He flinched at the girl&#8217;s voice, giving an acknowledging grunt as he rose from the ground. He briefly raised his head to look at where the rip in the sky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=84&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost: Table of Contents</title>
		<link>http://illusionistic.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/ghost-table-of-contents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea how long this story will last, but it seems to be too long to still qualify as a short story. So I created a table of contents to keep track of all the so-called chapters.
1. Prologue: The Serene Darkness
2. Chapter 1: The Yellow Spring
3. Chapter 2: The Underworld Prison
4. Chapter 3: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=86&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prologue: The Serene Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crash. Crumble. Thump.
Silence.
Crowds gathered around the strange little boy that had dropped out from the rip in the sky, now crouched at the center of the playground. Worried mothers poked and pried as fathers spread out in search of his parents or guardians. The boy curled himself into a ball and clenched his eyes shut. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=10&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Beauty</title>
		<link>http://illusionistic.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/sleeping-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mommy, can you read me a bedtime story?&#8221;
No.
&#8220;Of course sweetie, which one would you like?&#8221;
Please not again.
&#8220;The one with the sleeping princess.&#8221;
Make her stop.
&#8220;Once upon a time&#8230;&#8221;
Once upon a time&#8230;she made him a promise. A promise of a lifetime, a promise that she vowed to keep for all eternity. If only this lifetime, this eternity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illusionistic.wordpress.com&blog=90722&post=62&subd=illusionistic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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