Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25618483-20141105142033

Below is the pasta I submitted and after sitting a couple days in wating for a second opinion it was deleted for not meeting the quality standards. It is a bit long but I would like you to read it and give me any feedback you can. (It was originally going to be called From Beyond, but the page name was already taken :

- Pasta Start -

Oh God! Why does it always have to be me?



Why am I always the one that has to stay late when the cleaning crew comes?



Why is it always me?



It gets so damn boring just sitting here, in a cubicle, under the glow of the half illuminated fluorescent lights. At least one of the lights that is on is above me. God I hate this.



You would think it wasn’t that bad, “Hey at least you can sit at your computer until they are done for the night.” I guess that would sort of be true. I can sit here at my computer, and I do. I sit here all alone on the top floor waiting until the cleaning crew finishes. That’s how I know they are done for the night. They always clean the top floor last, and I get to be lucky enough to be the one that stays until they are done.



<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Getting back to the computers here, some are older and some are newer. The one here is one of the older ones, but it’s age doesn’t really seem to bother it’s performance. The software is pretty barebones. They have software programs that meet our needs, an internet browser, and that is about it. No wait, I lied. They also have employee monitoring software on them, to make sure the employees are all work and no play, or at least mostly work.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">So while I am here waiting I do, on occasion browse the internet. I check my social media accounts or at least I try to, some websites are permanently blocked to keep productivity up, and others might work and later in the same day you lose access to the site you were previously browsing. Internet browsing at work: it’s not always the easiest way to pass time.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Luckily, I enjoy reading. I am even lucky enough that most blog, social news and entertainment sites usually remain active so I have those along with random books to pass the time.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Finally! The cleaning crew is on the top floor. The final floor.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Soon.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I don’t really know much about the cleaning crew. I honestly don’t even know if they speak English. I hear them mumble and grunt to one another and point in the direction of the next task at hand, but other than that they stay pretty quiet.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I have tried to interact with them on occasion, you know, to be civil. I remember I once waved to one of them. Not an insane wave but just a friendly “hi” type of wave. I remember his stare just paused in my direction for a moment, and then he turned his gaze back to his task, and lightly shook his head. You would know the head shake if you saw it. It was that type of head shake you give someone when you witness them do something that is just beyond stupid. That shake you do when you just can’t believe a person actually said or did what they just did.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As usual right before they finish cleaning I headed to the elevator door to wait for them. I learned the hard way to get in the elevator first. When they were done, they were done! I remember the first night I had to stay. Once they were done they walked over to the elevator, and without even a grunt in my direction opened the elevator and turned off the lights leaving me in the complete dark. I made sure to never make that mistake again.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Well, here I am for another night waiting on the cleaning crew. I really do not understand why anyone has to wait for them or better yet, why it does it have to be me? This place does have security cameras, so it’s not like anything could be stolen or damaged without a record of the event. Better yet, there are like 4 of them I think? and only one of me, what am I really supposed to do if something? (I can’t imagine what) does happen?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Of course nothing like that has ever happened, and I doubt it ever would. They get paid well from what I understand and I don’t really think there is anything of any real value in this building. I mean there are the computers, but by no means are they worth trying to steal.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tonight is one of those nights where the internet is being all weird. Social media is not an option, and I am even having trouble with blogs and news sites. I still need to remember to bring some new books.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Wow, tonight went by fairly quick, maybe I dozed off a time or two? At  least I am awake now. I would hate to wake up to find the cleaning crew was gone and I was left in the dark again.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Someone else was in my cubicle today, so that was annoying. Well, I suppose, it wasn’t exactly my cubicle. I mean we don’t really have assigned workstations here. For the most part we sit in the same seats each day, but by no means are they our specific seat.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Some of the employees come in very early. I am not sure exactly what their jobs are, but I know there is a group of ten or twelve that come in at least two or three hours before the rest of us on the top floor. These ten or twelve always sit in the exact same places, but like I said, they come in way earlier than anyone else on this floor, so they get their pick of workstations.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I assume the guy that was in my usual unofficial space is a new member of the early crew. So when I saw him there I just headed to the next available station.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now I sit here and wait once again for the cleaning crew to come through. The computer I ended up sitting at is one of our newer computers, which you would think would be better than the older computer at my usual cubicle, not exactly.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">You see, the newer computers have one of those ‘clean sweep’ style softwares installed on them. You know those programs that cause the computers to shut down after a certain time, to ensure they never stay on too long, and to get rid of any files saved to the computer’s local hard drive. Now the first thought that anyone would have would be ‘just turn the computer back on’ or ‘move to another computer’. I get it believe me, but it’s not that easy. With moving to another computer each one is different. The older computers don’t have the ‘clean sweep’ on them, but they do save work to the local hard drives as well as to the server. The computer I was using was the last older computer that had not been given a specific job. Most of the early crew had the older computers as well. Whatever it was they did the company wanted multiple saves of their work, so they were never on the newer ones.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anyway, I didn’t want to disturb anything the new guy may have been working on, or what anyone else was working on for that matter, so I stayed here at the newer computer. The only problem, is as I said, they turn off after a certain time, they also turn back on at a specific time. You could physically turn them on, but if you did not have a login and job file number of a pending job they would turn back off after a few minutes. The company did this, so if there were certain projects on tight deadlines and employees had to stay to finish them, they could be given a login and the job file number so they could work on the project after hours. Each person assigned to the project was given their own login. These newer computers had ID scanners on them as well, which is how the computer obtained your login and any job file numbers assigned to your ID.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It is quite amazing, well it is to me at least. However, this does make it where no one can falsely log in claiming to be working on a project, unless you have stolen or borrowed another employee’s ID.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I have not.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I really need to remember to get some new books for nights like these. At least tonight the cleaning crew is only supposed to run through and empty trash so it shouldn't take long at all.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The receptionist on the main floor smiled at me today. Well at least I think she was smiling at me. She was looking in my direction. I think the new young mail guy came in right behind me though, so her smile was probably directed at him. I hear a lot of the woman say they think he is rather attractive.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I guess I can see that.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Maybe I’ll go down out to the vending machine in the hall, if I can find some change in my bag...I did remember a book today. It’s a new one too. Well, it is new to me at least.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I got it when I passed one of those free book bins outside of used bookstores. They are usually really old, defaced, or unpopular books. Occasionally there is a good find or a rare treasure. This one may not be either of those but, I grabbed it anyway.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I have skimmed over the book a little and read a paragraph  here and there, but haven’t sank my teeth into it yet. It’s called <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">From Beyond <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. The best I can tell it is one of those pseudo science paranormal books. I have no idea who wrote it. The pages with the copyright and author have been torn out or fallen out and covered in scribbles. There is no book jacket, there are bent up corners though, it’s just a faded black covered hardback. The front cover appears as if it once said “From Beyond” and the spine still says “From Beyond” in small silver foil stamped letters.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It’s one of those few annoying books where the author is not printed on the spine but rather the publishing house or edition number is. This one says “First Edition”. Fancy.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It’s missing the first few pages, and the back pages that are usually left blank. Any of the first few pages that are still in tact are covered with indecipherable scribbles in reds and blacks.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I know with the description I just gave it sounds like some work of horror fiction is about to take place due to my posession of what sounds like a “cursed book” movie prop, but it’s really quite amusing. The scribbles, and the damages to the book I am pretty sure are the work of no demon or devil. Well at least not a scary one any way. They do call it the “Terrible Two’s”.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">A small child, who I am assuming is named Jacob, is the devil behind these scribbles. On a couple of pages probably half way through the book, you find, in a variety of crayon colors, the name Jacob. You also find drawings of stick people, flowers, trees, and what I think is a dog or a cat. The drawing is not labeled so I have no definite answer for the creature. I believe this book was in the free bin because an aspiring artist got ahold of it and tore some of its pages out, and drew on others.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Oh the trouble I would have been in if I had done something like that. Even if it was to some weird pseudo science paranormal type book.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Judging by the few blurbs I have read on random pages, I think it might be one of those books written by one of those television psychics. You know the type.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The table of contents isn’t much help with chapters like:

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Are We Alone?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The “Will You Find Peace” chapter worries me. I hope that chapter isn’t some religious rant. I can’t stand those. I wouldn’t normally think of a psychic as a religious nut, for lack of a better phrase, but these days people surprise you more often than not.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I guess we will see.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Oh wow!, the crew is almost done I better get to that elevator. I don’t want to get left in the dark, what a pain.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Another long night ahead of me.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I snagged a couple more books from the free bin. One is called <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Sword of Slain <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">. No idea what its about. I guess it’s probably a fantasy novel. I literally just grabbed one as I went by. The cover is pretty beaten and torn. Paperbacks can’t take too much abuse before they give up. It still seems to be glued together fairly well. It gives me something else to read if I get bored with “From Beyond” annotated and illustrated by Jacob.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I actually read some of it. Read the first chapter, which of course was ‘Are We Alone’ and as you might have guessed, it was a series of hypothetical questions and explanations about astral planes and the levels spirits must go through and where and why they might become trapped.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The same stuff you hear anytime there was a psychic on any daytime talk show. Of course this chapter suggests, if you are willing to believe, that no, we are not alone. Shocking.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I also read <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">most <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> of chapter two which was entitled “How Do I Spot a Really Crazy Squiggly Line?” Okay, so maybe that wasn't what it was really called. It was actually “How do I Spot a Spirit” but it would seem Jacob decided to adlib a little with his crayons in chapter two. So a few words here and there had to be read through a rainbow of crayons, and I found a couple of the pages in chapter two were also torn. Judging by the crayon streak on the pages following the torn pages, I believe the crayon may have gotten away from him causing him to rip a couple of the pages.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">So even with crayon blocking my way and only being able to read the bottoms halves of a couple of pages I was able to get the gist of Chapter two.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Of course it talked about how spirits would sometimes be interpreted as a shadow or a hint of light in the corner of your vision. Yet when you gaze in that direction there is no shadow and no extra light. Those <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">might have been <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> spirits. Once again, the typical things you would hear from any television psychic, or ghost hunter tv show.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Chapter two didn’t really seem to have much more information than that. A long winded explanation for “when you think you see something, it was probably a ghost”

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The cleaning crew. Finally.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It’s been a little while, but here I am again.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I am stuck reading this Slain sword book or whatever it was called. I can’t find “From Beyond”.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I must have left it in another cubicle.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The sword book is alright, weird fantasy is not really my thing. Not that paranormal is, but at least the paranormal junk is somewhat entertaining. I haven’t yet figured out why it is called “The Sword of Slain”. I’m not too far into it, couple chapters, giving the standard other world landscape descriptions that go on for at least a page and a half, followed by character introduction and of course, by character introduction I mean the possible protagonist, and his entire damn family tree. Do I really need to know that Jobalus the farmer begat Gontoar the smith who begat two sons of the noble name Garphblat which begat daughters and a single son who begat someone else and someone else until we get to Janonbus who might be a main character?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Don’t get me wrong I enjoy the thought process that goes into fantasy fiction, and I know all the lineage and maps and descriptions makes it more real and it takes a ton of work to remember all of that information. I respect that. I just hate reading it.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I will continue to read it, I will take one for the team.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I hope the clean up crew didn’t throw my book away. Maybe it is in the lost and found.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I swear the receptionist on the main floor does not care about her job. Well why would she? At this place she is technically a glorified door greeter or rather she is automated directory assistance with a pulse. Anyway, all she wanted to do today was talk to that new mail guy.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I found my book by the way, it was in lost and found, sort of.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lost and found is at the front desk, where the receptionist is, which is also where the mail guy was. My book, was in the trash can behind her desk, which does sit by the lost and found basket. Maybe it just fell in.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anyway, I go and check the basket, and then see it there in the trash, I grumbled under my breath about not just throwing things away in hopes she would at least respond with a “Huh?!” or Heaven forbid, an apology. I didn’t even get a response. All those two could do was stare into each other’s eyes and giggle and smile. Meanwhile they are both attempting to discreetly undress the other with their eyes.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sometimes people make me sick. I digress.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I think I have read ten or fifteen chapters of that sword book and still have no idea how the book got its name nor do I have the slightest idea who the “hero/heroine” is. It is terrible to say I am actually excited to read the television psychic book.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At least it’s just trash night.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Reading <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">From Beyond <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> I made it to the “Will You Find Peace” chapter.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I was so happy to find it was not random religious ranting. Jacob aided this chapter by drawing colorful flowers in the borders of the pages. Only in a place or two did the bright colors run into the text, but it had no effect on the legibility of the words.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Actually, the flowers seemed almost fitting to the chapter, or rather to the book I suppose. It is indeed a book about death, or at least the thoughts of life after death. As we all know, a death will bring flowers, and sometimes food. I remember we had a death in the office not to long ago, and there were several flowers placed around the building, and many of the public figures, like the receptionist, wore flowers or ribbons on their shirts and jackets. I didn't know the person, so it is terrible to say that I cannot remember who it was. I do remember the flowers that stayed up for a few days, and there may have been a photo of the person, but that may have been from another time. It’s the same anytime we lose someone here. Several years ago an elderly lady that worked in our accounting department, passed away in her sleep, everyone liked her. Her name was Fran, but she loved it when you would call her Frannie. Her favorite color was pink so all of the flowers and ribbons were shades of pink. She had been here forever. She wore retro style eye glasses, you know the ones with the little rhinestones in the corners. One of the bouquets in the lobby had a pair of similar glasses on it. I miss her.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The chapter about finding peace though was more about things you could do to “help a spirit pass”. There were several passages about “talking” to the spirits, even if you could not see them. Basically it said to give comforting words to the spirits. Wait a minute, where was it? Ah! Here it is. “Knowing, or even thinking you may have a spirit in your presence, may be unsettling. Fear not, for you can find peace for you and them in comforting and suggestive words. When you feel a presence, and even when you don’t, speak softly and kindly towards the spirit and suggest they move from this world and on to where they belong. Use kindness to convince them that our realm is no longer the place for them”.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">So, politely tell the ghost to leave you the hell alone, and get the hell out.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I have never really been a believer in ghosts, or spirits, or strange presences for that matter. Though I will say, when Frannie passed away it was like a a little bit of brightness left the building. Not in physical light, but I guess the way things felt. I suppose that the closest thing to paranormal I have ever witnessed. I think it was more shock and sadness from the loss of a staple of this business more than it was anything spiritual.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The rest of the chapter just goes on in more detail about being nice and never being rude towards the spirits. It basically just says be nice, rudeness never helped anyone, but you know in a much lengthier way.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Oh! I have made it to I think chapter twenty-seven of that sword book, and what a hard battle it has been. I did however find out in chapter twenty, that the protagonist is not at all related to the lineage mentioned in the beginning of the book, and is named Fahirasha, daughter of a poor farmer. Until this point, no other female characters have been given names that I can recall. It has mentioned daughters or wives, but I don’t recall any names. So she must be special.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Cleaning crew.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I am really starting to think the cleaning crew are just a bunch of jerks, foreign or not. We never speak in the elevator, they just stand near the door facing forward or watching the floor numbers change, and I do my best to stay at the back out of their way. The tall one always stands near the buttons, and the shorter fat one always stands dead center of the door. I think he must be the boss, seeing as how he seems to be the one who gives the most orders and does the most pointing. The other two, which are of average height just shift their weight from one foot to another while the elevator descends.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Of course I don’t expect them to strike up a conversation, I am sure they are tired, I know I always am. I mean it’s really late at night, who wouldn’t be.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Now the reason I am saying I think they are jerks, is not because we don’t have boring small talk on the way down. It is because of the last time they were here.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Everything went as it normally does, they cleaned from the bottom to the top and when they were done I met them at the elevator, and we rode it down to the parking garage. The same routine. This is where employees park, and it’s where the trash is kept until it is collected by the city. The only difference is once they stepped out of the elevator I called out to them and said “You guys have a good night!” To be friendly, nothing more. I mean I am always here, and we never bother one another, but I just felt like trying to be nice. Maybe it was an influence from all of the information I read in the finding peace chapter that caused me to want to extend the olive branch, who knows?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Anway, I call out to them, and all four of them stop in their tracks and just turn around and stare at me. That same stare you give when someone says something really stupid. Just like the head shake the one gave me that time I waved. After a moment of staring they look to  each other and then at the short fat one, as if asking permission to respond at my gesture of kindness. After a moment the short on, who I did find out was named Gustov, motioned his head in the direction of the dumpster, and they all scurried on and unloaded the trash.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Not a wave, not a nod, not a word.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I am so done trying to be nice. Now don’t get me wrong I am not going to be rude to them by any means, I will just keep quite and when they are done on my floor I will go down with them and that will be that. Rinse and repeat. At least Gustov didn’t break eye contact as quick as the rest did. Maybe I am to hasty in my judgement. Maybe they have been instructed not to bother the employees. It’s probably best I don’t interfere with their work. I would not want to get them in any kind of trouble. They do really good work. They could at least smile though.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I think tonight I will either tackle some more of the sword book, or maybe get to that “Should I be Bothered by a Bump” chapter.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Well chapter fifty, and still no idea why it is called “Sword of Slain”. The heroine does fight occasionally but she uses a spear or a bow, and seems to have a distaste for weapons such as swords and axes.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I did make it through the bump chapter in “From Beyond”

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This one went into detail about whether or not you should be afraid of ghosts or spirits. I know, I know, cue the Ghostbuster theme song.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It also went into explanations of why some spirits were ‘mean’ or ‘evil’ and why some supposedly attempted to cause physical harm to the living. The chapter basically said that indeed some spirits could be harmful, but it was almost never because they were actually mean. “A harmful spirit does not mean the spirit of a killer” It goes on to explain that some spirits become harmful because they are angry and that they are usually angry because they are confused. According to this chapter some spirits do not understand why they are stuck in a limbo, so-to-speak. This causes them confusion, which can turn to panic, which to people in the mortal realm this can come across as violence or ill intent.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The chapter references the chapter about being nice to spirits to help them, saying it could help sooth their confusion about their situation. It was kind of just the same as the peace chapter but with the addition of ‘the ghostly violence is not their fault’.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I bet if the last pages of this book had not been ripped out by Jacob there would be an address to write or a number to call to get in touch with a spirit councilor or some mess. I swear this book has television psychic written all over it. Television psychic and crayon drawings.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Another night, and now I am just left with a couple of chapters of “From Beyond”. I actually finished “Sword of Slain”. I forced myself to do so. I was determined to find out why it was called Sword of Slain. Do you know what I found out? I found out that the book is part of a set and the next book is called “The Sword of Slain: The Blade Beckons”. So, I read this boring eighty-five chapter book looking for an answer only to find the answer is not there.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I have read more of “From Beyond” and like I said, only a couple more chapters to go. There was not really anything interesting in what I have read since the bump in the night chapter. There were a few inserts of ‘eye witness accounts’ but nothing really all that interesting. Claims of people talking with dead relatives, seeing roman army soldiers walk through their house and things of that nature. Vague explanations in the book mirror the ones you get on those ghost hunting and psychic shows.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I guess I will probably finish this book tonight. It is looking like the best things that are to come are scribbles by young Jacob. These final pages contain some of the drawings I am unsure of, you know, the ones that were possibly kitties, or dogs, or for all I know an iguana. One of them is drawn in green. Green with two crazy circles for eyes and  red ‘U’ shape for what I am assuming is a smile. Each drawing looks pretty much the same. Four, or more, ‘legs’ an oval or square body the childlike standard of a  ‘U-Shaped’ mouth, crazy eyes that are way too large or too small for the oval shaped head, and a sharp elongated triangle for the “tail”. Same drawing, different colors.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I finished “From Beyond”. Minus the additional art provided by Jacob, it was rather uneventful. Just recaps of the previous chapters, “sources”, and what seemed like filler text. There was a headshot of the author, but Jacob had apparently taken some more artistic liberties, and time with a marker. So, crazy scribbled circles covering most of the face, and I think some “wings” coming from one side of the portrait. Maybe they were hands. This scribbled portrait was a bit of an added bonus, because under the picture Jacob had signed this piece. Backwards J and all.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">At least tonight is trash night and I don’t have to go to that 6:30 staff meeting tomorrow morning.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Low whispers fill the room as they await their daily assignments.

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