Jaye Michael

Lanyon Chronicles

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The Lanyon Chronicles

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Jaye Michael

For Love of Life (Part 1 of 3)

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For the Love of Life

by

Jaye Michael

 

How do you create a superhero?
Why do they always seem flawed?
Here's one answer.

 

Chapter One:
Beginnings

The Soul of Man

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 The Soul of Man

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They’re out there, somewhere beyond the light. I can feel them, waiting for me to be alone; waiting to…

Got to run, hide. Can’t let them get me. But where? Where can I go? And how long will it be before they don’t care about other people seeing them?

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Part Three: Revolution

Chapter Twenty Seven: Postscript

What we call a beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
– T. S. Eliot

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Six: Appetencies

An apology for the devil:
It must be remembered that we have only heard
one side of the case.
God has written all the books.
– Samuel Butler

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Five: Acumination

When the president does it,
that means that it is not illegal.
– President Richard Milhous Nixon

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Four: Mammon

A billion here, a billion there,
and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
– Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Three: Conjointments

I can’t get no satisfaction.
I can’t get no girl reaction.
– Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger
and Keith Richards

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty Two: Chaffering

It is not enough to succeed.
Others must fail.
– Gore Vidal

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty One: Subterfuge

If an elderly but distinguished scientist
says that something is possible
he is almost certainly right,
but if he says that it is impossible
he is very probably wrong.
– Arthur C. Clarke

 

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Twenty: Preparation

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage
with a college education.
– Mark Twain

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PART THREE: REVOLUTION

Chapter Nineteen: Inquirendo

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character
by his way of eating jellybeans.
– Ronald Reagan

A woman is like a tea bag.
Only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
– Nancy Reagan

Happy Mother's Day. This chapter is a day early in honor of mothers, and those who wish to be mothers, everywhere.

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Eighteen: Partial Peroration

God is subtle, but He is not malicious.
– Albert Einstein
At any rate, I am convinced that He does not play dice.
– Albert Einstein

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Seventeen: Quadration

I wasn’t kissing her,
I was just whispering in her mouth.
– Chico Marx

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Sixteen: Palingenesis

I enjoy convalescence.
It is the part that makes illness worthwhile.
– George Bernard Shaw

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Fifteen: Variegation Maximization

Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose.
[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]
– Alphonse Karr

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Fourteen: Pandemia

It’s not the men in my life that counts,
it’s the life in my men.
– Mae West

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Thirteen: Kismet?

Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
– Sir Winston Churchill

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Twelve: Proliferation

For while we have sex in the mind,
we truly have none in the body.
– D. H. Lawrence

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Eleven: Cozener

Come into my arms my beamish boy.
– “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

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PART TWO: CONVOLUTION

Chapter Ten: Meretrix

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task
since it consists principally in dealing with men.
– Joseph Conrad

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Nine: Elucidation

The brain is not an organ of sex.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Since when?
– Senior Editor

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Eight: Adaptation

There’s no use trying, one can’t believe impossible things.
– Lewis Carroll

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Seven: Savoir Faire

In just seven days, I can make you a man.
                          -- Dr. Frank N. Furter
                                                            from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Six: Disenthralled

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
–Leo Tolstoy

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Five: Cossets and Cossacks

Half the work that is done in this world
is to make things appear what they are not.
– Ails Root Beadle

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Four: Entrapment

If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.
–from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

 

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Three: Elusion

A rose is a rose is a rose.
– Gertrude Stein
...unless it’s something else.
– [Editor’s Note]

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PART ONE: EVOLUTION

Chapter Two: Transmogrification

Nothing is ever so bad that it cannot get worse.
– Gattuso’s Extension of Murphy’s Law

 

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THE FINAL CHAPTER
Blonde Joke
Chapter Twenty-Three
by Jeffrey M. Mahr

 

What do you get when you put several blondes in a freezer?
Frosted Flakes

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Blonde Joke
Chapter Twenty-Two
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Can you name some of the inventions blondes have developed?
1. Tricycle kickstand.
2. Solar flashlight.
3. Fire proof matches.
4. Inflatable dartboard.
5. Glass hammer.
6. Black light bulb.
7. Boomerang grenade.

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Chapter Twenty-One
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Why do blondes smile during lightning storms?
They think their pictures are being taken.

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Chapter Twenty
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How many blondes does it take to play hide and seek?
One.

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Chapter Nineteen
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A one armed blonde is hanging from a tree. How can you make her fall?
You wave at her.

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Chapter Eighteen
by Jeffrey M. Mahr

 

How can you tell if a Blonde has been working on a computer?
White-Out ® on the screen.

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Chapter Seventeen
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What does a blonde owl say?
What? What?

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Blonde Joke
Chapter Sixteen
by Jeffrey M. Mahr

 

Did you hear about the blonde who thought she had a twin sister?
She didn’t realize she was looking in the mirror.

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