Ken
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Ken
@AtSynct
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Here's the English:
A small tavern hunched at the forest’s edge, little more than a dilapidated husk of weathered oak and crumbling stone, its sagging roof groaning beneath a dusk sky bruised with streaks of purple and gray. Inside, the air hung thick with the sour reek of spilled ale and the damp rot of old wood, the hearth’s flickering glow casting jagged shadows across the grimy planks. Torren slouched over a scarred table near the fire, his weathered hands curled around a dented tankard, the ale’s sharp bite sliding down his throat—a fleeting balm against the ghosts that clawed at the edges of his mind. A barn’s roar flickered in his memory, embers swallowing a child’s cry, a wife’s mocking laugh ringing as chains tightened around his wrists. Forty-six winters had carved their weight into his palms, leaving a stoic emptiness where hope and despair once warred. The small wooden bear charm that pressed against his chest was a relic of an old, now lost time. Once, his daughter held it lovingly in her small hands, its worn edges a testament to her care for the charm. He took another long draught from the dented tankard, willing the ale to drown the embers of a life he couldn’t reclaim.
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Convince me to read your book by posting its introductory paragraph transliterated into Cuneiform.
Ken@AtSynct
Convince me to read your book by posting exactly one sentence from that book.
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Just for you. Keep watching for a minute, eventually she undoes her top.
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@RobertlewisIR @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Alright -- now my curiosity is peaked. I love wild stories from history, even if they're embellished!
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk As it should be!
This, however, was supposedly a topless duel between two of Denver's most famous madams over a love triangle in the late 1800s.
It's probably not how it really all went down, but I choose to believe this version of history.
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@jamesbaxterink @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk But ... does a jalapeno have an armpit?
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk It was hotter than a jalapeno’s armpit the day they found Bennett Hampton II’s body.
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@RobertlewisIR @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk I mean ... I'm always at-least half naked when I sword fight.
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@GilGandel @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Please tell me that's a real line from your book. That is hilarious. I love it.
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk The bull-headed man gave her a look that could only be described as minatory.
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@SelRamirez1997 @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk I mean ... you talked about boobs to a guy, so you win. 😂
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Her warm supple white breast lay gently on my chest.
This is just before he kills her.
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@AtSynct @TAR_Kirk @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 "I’ve kidnapped a lot of people. Some stick with you more than others."
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@DanNEO_SS @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Did you just sneak two sentences in on me? :)
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk "Whoever masters this power will completely dominate the world... Darkness resides in every heart."
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@AdamLVEllis @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk I'm thinking about it ... I might be able to do it in 3.
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk You don't just become accustomed to watching someone splat into the ground and laugh
it off in a matter of weeks—that takes at least four months.
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@RyanK1986 @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 @TAR_Kirk Alright -- that's a good one that pulls me in.
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@TAR_Kirk @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 Makes me think for a moment of the King of Jerusalem from the Kingdom of Heaven movie.
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@AtSynct @AuthorTRobare @BellaHagleyWood @timmckay52 The porcelain mask he wore bore no mouth or nose, just eye slits adorned with red wings coming out of the corners.
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@AlxTurovski Haha - thanks? Maybe? He was a lot shorter than I am, but definitely the same hair
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@David634 @learning_yohei Yes, but if you read my sentence correctly you will see those two things are said separately as 2 types of accents, not together as one type of accent.
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@AtSynct @learning_yohei Working class does necessarily mean uneducated.
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@AtSynct That's silly considering that you can put your profile pic & handle to whatever you want and still get the verified badge as long as you pay 😮💨
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