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 #negociosinfernales prompt 10/5: "Drink a little poison every day"

I take it from a bottle of the color of cigars, a teaspoon a day. A little death on my tongue, the taste of Cold and Night, to bring out the sweet flavor of the rain-spangled spiderwebs and golden dust motes of my life. 

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 #WritersCoffeeClub 9/15 What conjunctions do you use most?

No lie, I read this and thought, Wow! I don't know that I've ever featured a conjunction in my writing. ... Yeah, I was thinking of astronomical conjunctions. If I were to feature an astronomical conjunction in a story, it would be a planet and the moon--I love how that looks. 

As for word conjunctions, I mean... probably I'm in line with whatever's common in spoken English. 
 nostr:npub1fjzwp3x9k8496j36grj4t3pw0hc0vp5dcgw4lw44arpdmefcjn2qfw3aet He did go to the front door... 
 @2e096c1c Okay, then MAYBE he wasn't a burglar. 
Maybe. 
 I just yelled at a guy who was on my deck with a flashlight. At 10 p.m. He was there to kill wasp... 
 @2e096c1c I do believe that when you're going to remove wasps from a property, you come up to the door first to make your presence known. I have Grave Doubts about the legitimacy of that guy's cover story.