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THE LATE SHIFT Jonathan sighed as he heaved the large sack over his shoulder.  It was pretty late at night, and he still had some work to do.  He hated working late nights, but he had to make ends meet, so there wasn't much of a choice.  Jonathan worked at a local restaurant in Estherwood, washing dishes and cleaning up after customers.  It wasn't the most important job in the restaurant, nor was it a particularly well-respected position, but it paid the bills, and that was enough.  He was young, and he had aspirations far beyond this simple lifestyle.  "I'm gonna be a governor one

Rainey: Spark of Insanity Part 1 Fate is never as clear-cut as we are led to believe.  In the realm of our imagination, good must always prevail over evil.  The villains of fiction are never successful, and justice always reigns supreme.  That is one of the undeniable truths that we are taught through fiction, and because of this, we grow up with ideas of balance and equality in the world.  Ultimately, we are left unprepared for the harsh reality of our own existence. Our own belief of goodness and happiness send us down the path to failure and destruction.  Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. My name is Doctor John Lewis Rai

A Return to Purpose The Writer stared at the glowing screen, his weary eyes passing over the few words he'd produced, desperately searching for some tiny hint of meaning within them.  But there were  none.  He could find nothing but line after line of pointless scribblings strewn across a sparse white emptiness.  And he knew that he had failed again.   He gave out a frustrated cry and shoved the laptop away in disgust, as if to push away his own persistent writer's block.  What had been the point of all his effort?  Was all of his straining and stress for naught? Had his