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		<title>The End of a Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my birthday in 2011, I got an idea in my head &#8211; to write fiction every day for 365 days. It was based on the many 365 projects that I had seen around the web. Some people documented their meals or took pictures of their feet or whatever. I decided to use this idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2155&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Three Hundred and One: The Sweetest Sauce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iris McGuire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iris had never understood why first dates were dreaded the way they were. Her friends talked about them like they were some kind of combat ritual, some horror show that had to be endured so that they might enter the realms of the mighty who had boyfriends and girlfriends. They traded stories about they guys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2146&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I used to be a writer like you, but then I got Skyrim in my brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Skyrim]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/?p=2149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, don&#8217;t start playing this game. I feel like it&#8217;s just planted itself in my brain and taken over. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; it&#8217;s a lot of fun, and definitely a lot of game for your money. There&#8217;s a ton of stuff to do and see, and no two games will be alike. I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2149&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Quick Update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/a-very-quick-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/?p=2143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you were wondering &#8211; no, I&#8217;m not dead. Nor have I been abducted by circus hoboes, aliens, or a highly secretive government agency that has threatened to destroy everything I love if I tell you exactly where they are in Northern Virginia and how much I would appreciate an A-Team intervention right now. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2143&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Sixty-three: An Easy Mark</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/day-two-hundred-and-sixty-three-an-easy-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ennelrion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ennelrion had been circling this little adventurer for a while now. The poor thing &#8211; tracking through the mountains, dragging gods know what in that sack behind it and looking for&#8230; what was it these two-legged monkey things wanted. Adventure? Gold? The brief ecstasy of notoriety? It&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t even know, the dragon thought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2136&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Sixty-two: Mutual Understanding</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/day-two-hundred-and-sixty-two-mutual-understanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April Logan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Logan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nawfal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/?p=2128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Go ahead,&#8221; the genie said to Jack. &#8220;Put on the ring and complete the circuit. And when you do, you and April will know everything about each other.&#8221; The genie took a long drag off his cigarette, and smiled when he exhaled smoke that was pink and shimmered slightly in the light from the kitchen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2128&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Sixty-one: Seduction</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/day-two-hundred-and-sixty-one-seduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bethany Higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infidelity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Wagner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bethany Higgins opened the door, her first thought was, Wow. Looks like someone knows how to use Photoshop. The man in front of her didn&#8217;t have as much hair as he did in his picture. His jawline was a little softer, he looked puffier, and the benefits of taking a profile photo from above [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2124&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Sixty: Derelict 3</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/day-two-hundred-and-sixty-derelict-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Serial Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Newberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donovan Starling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Gagnon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leane Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mara Lindley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Thomas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://yearofstories.wordpress.com/?p=2111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read Part 1 Read Part 2 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The hub of the ship was the social space. It was a kitchen, a dining room, a conference room, and an entertainment center. The bridge was one short corridor away, and the crew quarters branched off in four directions &#8211; four above, four below. Right now they were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2111&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Fifty-nine: Derelict, part 2</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/day-two-hundred-and-fifty-nine-derelict-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Serial Box]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/?p=2107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read Part 1 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Mara wasn&#8217;t an expert on communications or computers, at least not beyond what everybody had to know to operate the ship. Her job was security and threat assessment, a job that seemed a little ridiculous on a salvage ship with a crew of five. The biggest threat she had to deal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2107&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two Hundred and Fifty-eight: Derelict, part 1</title>
		<link>http://yearofstories.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/day-two-hundred-and-fifty-eight-derelict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gladis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Serial Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mara Lindley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mara hated how her breathing sounded inside the spacesuit. Her helmet amplified everything &#8211; the slow draw of the inhale, with that ever-so-faint squeak at the end. A leftover from the asthma she&#8217;d had as a child. The exhale that whooshed out and echoed in her ears, a hollow, close sound that made her feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23357689&#038;post=2097&#038;subd=yearofstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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