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The First Night Alpha Strings Since long before Zeus topped his father, Cronus, to become lord of all and CEO of the largest company in the universe, three goddess sisters began to determine the Destiny of both gods and mortals alike. All lovers of Greek mythology know them as the Fates; goddesses with fiery sides. Clotho, the Spinner, wove the strings, Lachesis, the Apportioner, measured the strings, and Atropos, the Inevitable, cut the strings. The process was and is, with some adjustments,...

Sour The sour cream just appeared in the refrigerator one day. No one remembered buying it. Dad asked everyone and when they denied buying it, he denied buying it himself. The expiration date was within the appropriate time frame and the seal was unbroken so the sour cream was kept. That night we turned up the music so we couldn’t hear them fight. It was the first time the radio couldn’t go loud enough to drown them out. Most nights it was about money, what he spent, what she hid from him, an...

I Forgive You It doesn’t matter that it was you speeding down the hill. It could have been anyone that hit me so hard I did somersaults in the air. You didn’t see me with your head somewhere else; you were probably wondering how you would ask your boss for a raise, or approach your cheating wife. I overheard you last Thursday in the diner booth next to me. Not that I had been listening, but it was hard not to hear the strained voice that accompanied each miserable tale. When I looked at you I...