Spoke Turkish to a Turkish girl today. Her surprise and delight were priceless.

Wish English would get me that reaction.

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I’d love to say I met my wife the way I pick a bottle in a drunken haze. Just point behind the bar and call it fate. But those odds are slimmer than my sobriety.

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They scrapped direct deposit for a carnival wheel. Spin for a bonus or watch your paycheck vanish. I traded my rent on “Lucky Strike Bonus” …only to land on “Lose It All.” When did earning a living become a gamble?

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I’ve argued with God, traded my soul, and dipped my finger in cocaine, yet nothing tastes as divine as good rum. If whiskey is a preacher’s porridge, rum is the poet’s fire: sweet, scorching, ready to set your world alight. #odetorum #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Not faith, exactly, since I’d never had much, but the last thread of possibility that I might one day find something worth believing in through these tainted mediators.

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“You used AI to write this?”

My power move: I hurl my typewriter onto the table.

Smash through stained-glass bullshit.

Sure, it’s not quite naked bravado, but a custom insult hammered out on a click-clacker hits that much harder in person.

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