Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
Brookville, Pennsylvania
Joined myLot 9 years ago
I'm a writer of mostly short, scifi stories, but I dabble in other lengths and genres. I'm just checking this out.
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
17 May 17
Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
4 May 17
Several years ago, I lived in Kennett Square, which is the Mushroom Capital of the World. It has a large Hispanic population, a lot of them working on the mushroom farms. Anyway, I moved there during the summer, and late the...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
5 Apr 17
I’d say it’s very likely that when my parents were married they received a set a silverware. But over the decades with kids and time and everything, I’m not sure how much – if any – of that original set is still around. And with...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
7 Mar 17
About twelve years ago, I had a bit of a fender-bender. It would take about a week or so for the shop to fix it up, so I got a rental car. When I filled out a thing online for it, I asked for a car in the same class as mine....
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
5 Jan 17
I live on a farm and we have several outdoor cats. The theory is that they will supplement what we feed them by catching mice in the barn. One of these cats is Barb, named because I once found her as a kitten sleeping in a coil...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
12 Dec 16
You all know the gesture of extending your thumb and pinky and holding your hand next to your head to indicate someone should call you. But nowadays, shouldn’t that indicate they should call you … on a landline? In this...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
12 Oct 16
So a couple of weeks ago SpaceX's Elon Musk gave a presentation about how he plans to build big rockets to send people to Mars. Then I think last week, the head of United Launch Alliance (SpaceX's rival) said that their rockets...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
28 Aug 16
I work in a store and it seems like a lot of the older folks have to tell me why they’re buying wasp spray, or what they plan to do with the pie crust and can of apple pie mix they’re buying. Why do old people need to tell their...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
29 Jul 16
I need to get a new car, well before I had planned on getting one. Being short on money, I remembered that a topic I had wanted to write about was if I won the lottery. So here goes.
First off, I’d be really surprised if I won...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
16 Jun 16
Years ago, I read an article about some “incidents” onboard the space station Mir. These weren’t full blown fistfights, just a few thrown punches. I did a quick search, but I was unable to find anything about fights in...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
1 Jun 16
It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted anything here, but with a new month I figured I should get back to it. There were a few reasons why I was away.
First, back in April I got a part-time job to help pay the bills. It’s...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
16 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“Francophobe – Noun. A person who fears or dislikes France or French things....
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
15 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“pedal pushers – Women’s and girls’ trousers reaching to the calf, originally used...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
14 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“machicolation – Architecture. An opening between a wall and a parapet, on a roof...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
13 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“knish – A small square or round of dough filled with potatoes, meat, kasha, etc.,...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
12 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“guff – Slang. Foolish or uncalled-for talk; nonsense.”
How sad that the first...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
11 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“rebec – A medieval bowed instrument, somewhat like a violin.”
So I went to YouTube...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
11 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“rebec – A medieval bowed instrument, somewhat like a violin.”
So I went to YouTube...
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2 people
Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
10 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“benison – A benediction; blessing.”
I’m in a writing critique group, and I was...
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Stephen L. Thompson
@oneoveralpha (434)
• Brookville, Pennsylvania
9 May 16
I find a random word by flipping through my 2003 The New Webster’s Concise Dictionary and write a quick – often silly – little post about it.
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“placer – Mining. 1 A deposit of sand, gravel, etc., containing gold or other...
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