Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics. Shannon Celebi
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In his short story, "How I Became a Living God," F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the essence of life in a single sentence. It is an acknowledgement that we live in an imperfect world and we must adapt to the challenges we face. At times we will be confronted by strange and frightening things and we must always be ready for them.

Source: 1:32 P.m.

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