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     A peaceful deep blue eye sitting nestled in a Green field of trees. A cool wind starts blowing over the deep blue lake. The wind carries the song of the birds across the eye of blue. The humans build a city that pokes the deep blue eye. But it never blinks, never wipes away the intrusion. Fish are swimming under the surface of the cool, calm water. But they never jump; for fear that the birds will get them. But the birds stay near, on the watch for the moment where the fish do jump above the water. But this is no matter to the eye. The eye will never blink away the city at its edge. It will never shield itself from the probing talons of

Today, you look down uponeveryone. Worshipped, loved, envied. everybody wants to see your face. yesterday, there was that bum, who asked you for a buck. and you walked away. You worried about your fans would think, If you gave him the cash. Had you softened up? Well now, you messed up. Your fans, the ones you looked down on, now they look down at you. Remember that bum? The one you wouldn't give that dollar? well now, you're him. Asking others for a buck. But it feels different down here. One bad move won't affect How everybody looks at you. Because nobody cares You lost millions, all in cash. You lost your worship, love,

The Hardships of a Hero Volume 3 By Brendan Kelleher Chapter 7 Wake up "proceed no further…" The voice seemed to ooze out of the very darkness that surrounded me. "proceed no further in this business" There was nothing around me except for the vast, looming darkness. I spoke out loudly, trying to cover up my fear. "Who are you? What do you want from me?" "I am he without form… I am he who is waiting to find form in the ultimate beast…" "BULL-DUNG!!" "you will only slow my progress… but it is no matter… you shall die just the same…" I whipped around to try and see if I could find anything out there, but nothing was to be f

The Hardships of a         Hero   Volume 2 The First Step By: Brendan Kelleher Chapter 4 Preparation      "Ah. So that's why he wanted to see you. But… Why you? Nothing personal… but, why did he select you?"      "Fred, Dave, My best guess would be this." I put on my best game show host act and said "LET'S PLAY NAMES IN A HAT! Reach in this hat, and pull out one name! The name you select will be sent on a dangerous mission that we know nothing about! He could be seriously injured, dismembered, even killed! But we don't care! That just means that he does not get paid! And the second round of name pulling begins!"      "You seem very

The Hardships of a          Hero        Volume 1 The Adventure Begins By: Brendan Kelleher Chapter 1 The Game.      "What the heck was that?"      "Hey, don't yell at me, I tried!"      "But you missed him!"      "The ball went right past you! Twice!"      Ah, gym class. One of the best classes in the world. If you want to exercise your lungs more than anything else, that is. I had just thrown the ball at one of the opposing team's runners during kickball, and missed. After that a whole shouting contest started.      "But you could at least aim at him!"      That was the comment that I was waiting for. I was prepared for that.