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Interview With The Tentacle Demon Chapter 5: Sorority

CHAPTER 5: SORORITY “Julie Rhodes?” “Yes?” Julie barely glanced up from her work. There was always more paperwork to do. Accounting, payroll, purchase orders, work orders, the job of an office clerk was never done. It was better than the being on the factory floor, but not by much. She was looking forward to retirement. “Formerly Julie Stone, of Eta Nu Tau?” “Goddammit!” Julie hissed. “What are you, a reporter? When are you people going to leave me alone? It was forty years ago, and you cock suckers still come crawling up my ass every few years trying to get the ‘real story’. Get this straight. Nothing happened! It was all hyped up bullshit rumors started by rival houses to destroy us and it worked, okay? Now leave me the hell alone!” She had been …

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The Island Inhabitants

The Island Inhabitants November 2010 The small independent island nation was at the end of a long chain of Pacific archipelago islands more than 40 miles from it’s nearest island neighbor, 154 square miles in size, large and protected shallow clear blue lagoons surrounding the island with white sugar sand beaches, many isolated coves with similar beaches and a very small stable population of less than 450 natives. Only one very bored part-time policeman and a government of 15 people ran the entire island nation. The island bore a strong resemblance to the mythical island of Bali Ha’i of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Bali Ha’i was based on the real island of Ambae. Transportation to the island was weekly floatplane flights and a weekly ferry from the nearest island 40 miles away, …

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