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Family by Lee Pletzers

flash fiction

The homeless man stumbled off the train at Fushimi Inari station. The train stopped opposite the popular Kyoto shrine. Friends, couples, families, and tourists poured through the gates. Phones out, cameras ready.

Taking a deep breath, he hobbled into the shrine.

He stopped at the concrete steps leading to several shops with monks and pretenders selling charms. All contained an image of the fox.

Two massive foxes guard the entrance, one held a key, the other a crystal ball. They weren’t foxes though. They were jackals; created to do the work of Fushimi Inari-sama.

With determination, he rushed up the steps and headed for the thousand gates. Passing the entrance, all sound stopped. A heavy silence fell. The hordes of sightseers were frozen, locked in time.

The scream of twisting metal filled the air. The jackal with the key turned its head to watch him.

Time was short.

Dodging people in mid-step, he entered the first of a thousand gates. People crammed the tunnel. Many in frozen poses for the camera. Others waiting to move on.

Guttural howls rumbled from the surrounding mountain forest.

Something black zipped past.

Rushing through and dodging the throng, he neared the end.

She waited. Her back to him. A long leather coat reached past her knees. Straight black hair reached almost to her waist.

“Mother,” the man said. He swallowed hard. “I’ve returned home.”

She didn’t turn. “You abandoned us three generations ago.”

“For love,” he whispered. The man looked at the ground. 

“For the love of a human,” his mother spat. “Disgusting.” 

“Please accept me back. I am your son.”

She was silent for a long moment, then she said softly, “You broke a mother’s heart.” The coat dropped. A shape moved under it. The material vanished. The true image of his mother appeared. Radiant as ever. “What is broken can never be fixed.”

Beyond the entrance, he saw his creator. Father. A black jackal resplendent in all his glory, turned his back to his son. They had once been so close, played together, grew together, Father even spoke of a time when the son would become king of the souls. 

But the human drew him to her world. These beings are weak and have short lifespans. 

He watched them fade as life returned to the world.

The gaggle of humans came from every corner. If he could not be King of the Souls, then he would collect his own. In time, humans would fear him. And maybe, his mother might once again smile at him, and allow him home. 

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I’ve dumped Medium

Pop over, that a look, I have many posts there and more later. Even some from here will pop over there as well.

GONE

https://medium.com/@threeand10

Also I’m adding short stories to YouTube.

Pop over and sign up; https://www.youtube.com/@thrillernz

I’m also on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thrillernz

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Aren’t they terrorists?

This happened way back in March according to the newspaper date, and this is the first any of us have heard about it.

If this is true, they are making bank. In a video, they claim that NATO is paying them 15,000 $ a month. Germany is paying 5000 Euros, and Spain is paying 1500 euros. A MONTH.

Now we know why so many weapons and machinery was left behind in Afghanistan.

Source: Redacted with Clayton Morris + comments from viewers.

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Greatest invasion film ever

This is brilliant. It’s a spliced together film of several alien invasion films expertly pieced together into a great film.

Check it out:

Feel free to skip the first two minutes.

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Time to chill and laugh

This guy, Jeff Leeson, was brilliant. After watching give him a tip. The ending is also great.

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It’s about energy?

So, earlier today, Zelenskiy signed a document to enter into NATO and sent it to them. At 7 pm NATO is going to make an announcement. Russia said this will never happen under his watch. This could lead to WW3.

However, I recall something that all NATO countries must be in agreement. So, which countries are in NATO: (Side note, why is the US and Canada listed in the 30 countries? The video sates very clearly that a county must be a part of Europe. Is the US and Canada a part of Europe? I don’t think so.

skip to 36 seconds to view requirements.

Albania
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Czech Rep
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy

Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Türkiye
United Kingdom
United States

I doubt Italy and a few other will agree. Take a breath, relax a little, we are not out of the woods yet, but we do have a slight rest. Because someone blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline and it wasn’t Russia, that makes no sense. It was Putin’s only real bargaining chip. I think Poland, which also has a pipeline feeding gas into Germany and other countries was trying to end the competition.

Of course, they couldn’t do this themselves, they needed Brandon’s help. And he has stated on camera that the Nord Stream pipeline won’t be an issue if Russia invaded the Ukraine.

Kim Iversen agrees with me:

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Geo-politics is tricky

Never blindly accept the mainstream media news. Listen or read alternative sites. Then, if you’re not too lazy, research. Not using Google that blocks or hides anything that doesn’t make them money (I have no issue with that, money gets us shit we want or need), but use Duck Duck Go (https://duckduckgo.com) and double check what Clayton says.

I did. I found:

Ukraine “has been bombing its own people for eight years”? (LINK)

20 Minutes was able to verify, the translation of the woman wearing the helmet is accurate.

An old lady from Donetsk [separatist region in eastern Ukraine] saw her neighbour’s house hit by a shell today!

And explains that Ukraine has been bombing its own people for eight years!!

This is why Russia decided to intervene.

This meaningful publication, accompanied by a video, has been shared several thousand times on social networks since its publication on March 3rd.

In the video, a Frenchwoman who wears a helmet marked “press” translates the words of an old lady.

“She sends the message to Macron not to support the Ukrainians, because for eight years this is what we have been experiencing.

The man present on the video, presumably the son of the old lady, assures – still according to the translation – that “in this conflict, it is the two parties who are guilty”.

Ukrainian strikes targeting civilians in separatist regions are precisely the accusations the Kremlin is making to justify its offensive.

Teller Report
Now you can see non-English news…

(Note: I have rearranged, and corrected some parts of the article. Read the original article at the link noted above)

And there’s this about the pipeline:

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Did Shieldmaidens really exist

In his Danish History, the medieval scholar Saxo Grammaticus describes Viking women who “dressed themselves to look like men, and devoted almost every instant of their lives to the pursuit of war.”

These vicious shieldmaidens “offered war rather than kisses” and “assailed men with their spears whom they could have melted with their looks.”

By Gina Dimuro | Checked By John Kuroski
Published December 22, 2017
Updated July 26, 2019

If Shieldmaidens existed why is there so little written about them? The Vikings did have a writing system. There are stories that are passed down through the generations of these beautiful women that could make enemies crumble at the knees from their sheer beauty, but instead these maidens preferred to slash and pillage alongside their countrymen.

Legend says the real Lagertha was in fact a Viking shieldmaiden and was the ruler of Norway. The legends do confirm she was once the wife of the famous Viking King, Ragnar Lodbrok.

This site has a good rundown on the maidens and also includes links to other female warriors, including Onna Bugeisha.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/viking-shieldmaidens

Recommendation: Watch Northman. It’s brilliant.

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Report Reveals South American Countries Emptying Prisons To Send Criminals To United States

Since Joe Biden was installed in the office nearly two years ago, his ‘open border’ policies have allowed 4.9 million illegal aliens, or about the entire population of Ireland, to cross into the US.

It seems those thugs pushing our nation’s record crime streak are having good news today. They can take a much-needed break because Biden is bringing in fresh reinforcements.

According to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security that the Venezuelan government has been emptying its overcrowded prisons and releasing many convicted criminals, who are heading for the wide-open U.S.-Mexico border.

In fact, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) tweeted that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that Venezuela is dumping its prisoners, some of them violent, onto our southern border, where they saunter into the U.S.

“DHS confirms that Venezuela empties prisons and sends violent criminals to our southern border,” Nehls tweeted. “President Trump warned us about this years ago.”

Impeachment of Joe Biden, Article 1: Failure to secure the national border.

More details of this exclusive report from Breitbart:

The intelligence report warns agents the freed prisoners have been seen within migrant caravans traveling from Tapachula, Mexico toward the U.S.-Mexico border as recently as July. The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas the move is reminiscent of a similar action taken by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during the Mariel boat lift in the 1980s.

The report does not specify that the release of the convicts — understanding they would head to the United States — could be a purposeful geopolitical move specifically intended to impact U.S. national security. Another information gap cited in the report acknowledges the unknown role the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s equivalent to the CIA, may have played in the deliberate releases.

The source says the task of identifying Venezuelans who have criminal records in their home country is nearly impossible. Of the thousands of Venezuelan migrants surrendering along the U.S.-Mexico border daily, most, according to the source, are being released into the United States. Without effective diplomatic relations with Venezuela, the source says access to criminal databases in that country simply does not exist.

“Unless we apprehend someone who voluntarily tells us they have committed a violent crime in Venezuela, we can only guess and that doesn’t work well,” the source told Breitbart. “They will more than likely be released.”

The source says it is unknown how many have already been released into the interior of the United States to pursue asylum.

This is exactly what I have been warning about 👇 We are being exploited at Biden’s chaotic purposeful border policy by all our adversaries. Not just Venezuela but China with Fentanyl using the cartels as their proxies – among others. Thanks for confirming. Now what @POTUS ? https://t.co/NWdE0mllP3

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) September 18, 2022

Sources: TheGatewayPunditBreitbart

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Sheriff and man shot from back of cruiser

CONTENT WARNING vai Fox News

Oklahoma deputy and civilian shot by woman who escaped handcuffs

Shocking police video obtained by the Grady County Sheriff’s Office / BODY CAMS+ /TMX shows a woman slipping out of her handcuffs, grabbing a police rifle and shooting out the back of a patrol car, injuring a deputy and a bystander.