Encouragement and survivor stories from persons in chronic pain? Symptoms of what may be fibromyalgia and an inability to manage the pain well are depriving my life of beauty, art, and color; I am looking for underdog stories.
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posted by MeatyBean
on Apr 15, 2013 -
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Off-topic ghost story threads on various internet forums? They are delicious. Load me with links, please.
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posted by Lou Stuells
on Apr 11, 2013 -
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What are the best non-Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, collections, and novels?
posted by jsturgill
on Dec 7, 2012 -
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Can you help me think of activities I can engage in that will give me lots of good material for interesting stories? I want 2013 to be the year of the interesting story in which I do things that have a good chance or resulting in an interesting story. I want to come up with at least 12 things I can do -- 1 per month.
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posted by willnot
on Dec 5, 2012 -
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I'm looking for stories (long or short) with self-aware robots or digital intelligences that are neither merciless killers of humanity/their makers nor effective slaves (created and forced to perform labor, either through laws or through programming). Ideally neither of those things would figure into their history, either. It'd be best if the constructed-people were the protagonists or main focus of the story, but this is not required.
posted by curious nu
on Oct 5, 2011 -
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What is your favorite short anecdote about a famous and/or influential historical personage?
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posted by absalom
on Jan 27, 2011 -
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Which stand-up comedians tell personal stories as opposed to gags, one-liners and impressions? (I already know about Louis CK, Ricky Gervais, Woody Allen and Bill Cosby.)
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posted by grumblebee
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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What are your favourite, most scary, campfire-esque, "torch under the chin" type stories....
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posted by MarvinJ
on Oct 25, 2006 -
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Has anyone written and published very brief, dense prose works akin to Borges'
ficciones, and are they any good?
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posted by jack_mo
on May 16, 2006 -
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Has anyone seen something so amazing they wanted to tell everyone about it, but by the time they could, the event had passed? [MI]
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posted by SpaceCadet
on Oct 13, 2004 -
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