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Jun 20Edited

The story kept building like a volcano , lava gurgling below. Waiting.

I held myself back from what I was compelled to do. Scroll down to the end to find out what happened to Eona and

why. Then start from the top. I know , would have been shameful. What does she have to ‘say’ about all of this? I am left hanging and totally invested.

( Yeah, fuck Muck, he sounds familiar)

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I’ll be wearing my Fuck Muck tee-shirt for next week’s read.

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Put my order in for one, xs in Whale blue please.

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You know I do actually have a 100 Stories shirt! I’ve only had one made so far though. No whale. 😔

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Now that might be 12 too many fingers even for us laid back folk in Vt.

I do like the FUCK MUCK

slogan, it will keep people guessing. If you do design one , probably should put all that on the back so I won’t have people staring at my front too long, just saying.

Maybe a whale logo on the front.

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Fuck muck. 🖕🏻 🖕🏻🖕🏻 🖕🏻 🖕🏻🖕🏻 🖕🏻 🖕🏻🖕🏻 🖕🏻 🖕🏻🖕🏻 🖕🏻

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^ I hope that reference is clear. 😬

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"emoji turkey" haha

you have more footnotes than DFW (not a bad thing 😇)

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It's getting to be DFW length, too. 😀 The similarity ends there. Sigh.

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well think of it this way: less personal emotional swings ugh

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YOU ARE TH EDEVL.

This is insane Adam. I’m equally baffled with your mad imagination and junkie-hooked on needing to know what happens next.

I can’t read the footnotes. It’s a serious problem, I know. I’ll try again tomorrow, I promise!

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Ok ok, I read the footnotes. I had to relax and not fret about referencing back to the text/context (do people do that?) It was worth it:

Donny is quoted as saying “somebody has to get in the water first to take the picture of the first person getting into the water.” 😂

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Btw: if you read in the app or a browser it is REALLY easy to flick back and forth. Just click on the footnote number in both places. Pro Tip 😝

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Oh sweet lord. I just tried it—footnote aversion solved.

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I should maybe put a note at the top. There’s some really important information casually dropped in there.

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👏

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Whaaaaaat?! I DID NOT INOW THIS. Derrrr.

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The good news for readers of my work is you can’t do a footnote in a footnote. And I tried. 😆

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Like I said, YOU ARE TH EDEVL.

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♥️🐳

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I can only imagine the glee with which you wrote this. I can picture you saying to yourself, yeah, why the hell not, let's try this. If you ever do a voiceover, I hope the footnotes are included. (btw, the whale recording doesn't seem to play in the phone app, but it worked fine on my laptop)

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When I listen to myself read my work I definitely “feel something” and it isn’t what I’m going for.

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Thank you, Julie.

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This is WILD, Adam. I love all the layers and multimedia. The whale noises! You had me at the Moby Dick allusion, but I'm really curious where this all goes. Very postmodern and delightfully mind-twisting.

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Thank you for sticking with it! I’m charging into the great silence on this one. 😭 But I think there’s going to be a real reward here. 🙏

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Joe Logan and Muck, huh? 😏

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Yes, Julie is right, I was unable to play recordings on Part ll. Had no problem playing Part l, both on my iPhone.

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I see. I’m not sure what’s going on there. 🤔

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Oh dear... am I allowed to foresee what will happen here?

Can you imagine Muck inviting Logan for a dive and some of the trouble in the world resolves in one simple dip? God, this is making me so furious I am becoming cruel :/

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