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    Double Dates
    Troy Kinney
    • May 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Double Dates

    MICRO-FICTION 100 words or less
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    Writing from my past
    Troy Kinney
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Writing from my past

    I was reminded, so I looked and then found one of my old pieces published in The Chalcedon Report back in 2002. I remember that I was...
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    Short Story: A Leg Up
    Troy Kinney
    • May 14, 2019
    • 8 min

    Short Story: A Leg Up

    The following short story is what I wrote as my second entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. This heat required three...
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    Short Story: Bar None
    Troy Kinney
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 9 min

    Short Story: Bar None

    The following short story is what I wrote as my first entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. The heat I was in required...
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    THE WALL
    Troy Kinney
    • Jan 11, 2019
    • 1 min

    THE WALL

    It is obvious that our elected officials cannot seem to agree about walls but Samsung just revealed theirs. This new item also proves...
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    Two Ways to Read?
    Troy Kinney
    • Nov 27, 2018
    • 1 min

    Two Ways to Read?

    I think there are some interesting things in this piece by Zat Rana: There Are Two Ways to Read — One Is Useless My immediate problem as...
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    The Yahoos are Here!  And they are Us.
    Troy Kinney
    • Nov 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Yahoos are Here! And they are Us.

    As I watched that video and others like it, I again sat in wonderment of the craziness that overcomes some folks on “Black Friday.” Much...
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    Poems: Reformation Festival
    Troy Kinney
    • Nov 7, 2018
    • 2 min

    Poems: Reformation Festival

    -I- Fortunes At Our Feet Arriving under leafy eucalyptus branches Snowy tent tops like a tiny cathedral in the grass Folks mingling,...
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    Poem: Rest Home?
    Troy Kinney
    • Nov 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Poem: Rest Home?

    Icy air creeping out of vents, pumping the smell of aging flesh. Nurse, attention caught by accident, a whisper perhaps. He materialized...
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    Mr. Anderson, English 102
    Troy Kinney
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 5 min

    Mr. Anderson, English 102

    The second semester of my freshman year in college I had an interesting English prof. His name was Mr. Anderson. He loved to pick on the...
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    HBO films Fahrenheit 451 (2018)  - Movie review
    Troy Kinney
    • Jun 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    HBO films Fahrenheit 451 (2018) - Movie review

    I was excited to see what HBO cooked up when I saw the initial preview to their film based on the novel Fahrenheit 451...
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    The Great Gatsby or Eggs That Betray- Getting Past Fake News
    Troy Kinney
    • Apr 21, 2018
    • 13 min

    The Great Gatsby or Eggs That Betray- Getting Past Fake News

    People also believe that George Wilson kills Gatsby out of jealousy and revenge. But this is not what really happens.
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    Decanting Poe's Amontillado
    Troy Kinney
    • Feb 14, 2018
    • 6 min

    Decanting Poe's Amontillado

    It's Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. the day prior to Ash Wednesday) ! You should read Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”. The short story...
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    Silence by Shūsaku Endō
    Troy Kinney
    • Jan 15, 2017
    • 4 min

    Silence by Shūsaku Endō

    I think that there are many popular missionary stories out there that generally have a happy ending. Even in martyrdom there is hope....
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    The Little Prince and Our Modern Educational Practice
    Troy Kinney
    • Oct 26, 2016
    • 8 min

    The Little Prince and Our Modern Educational Practice

    Can she get accepted into Werth Academie? The Little Girl had to answer the One Big Question.
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