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It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.

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Once upon a time -- of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve -- old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. 

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Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
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But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.  You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
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A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

STAVE I
Marley's Ghost

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.

PREFACE

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.

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Evidence of "wanton disregard."

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The ghosts cared for him and taught him like his addict mother could not. foolscap-quill.com/signet.html

of his life in drug flop houses. When Orion was three his mother inherited the L'Enfant Haven mansion from her aunt and she and Orion moved there. The mansion was haunted. But three year old Orion did not realize the people he interacted with were ghosts. The ghosts were bound to the mansion. ->

Orion's mother was a drug addict. She was a white woman. Her parents had died when she was young. She ran away from her wealthy aunt when she was a teenager. Orion's father was a young Black man with his own troubled history. Orion spent the first few years ->

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Useful tips for writers (and others) on Chill Subs Blog.
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Trim the fat. Extra words slow your sentences. Make every word count. Lean writing is easier to follow and more impactful.

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Cut the tip of my left index finger on Sunday. Was difficult to get it to stop bleeding.

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Books make good holiday gifts. Foolscap & Quill has books on science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, meditations, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes. Each book's page as links to online stores and brick & mortar stores (when we know about them) that sell that book. www.foolscap-quill.com

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Still recovering from the battle in the first book, Orion is faced by more challenges: nightmares of a ghost child, a woman he is strangely attracted to, and saving a woman from a crime lord.
Spectral Promises is the second book in the Orion Labauve series.
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Orion was raised in a haunted mansion in Louisiana. When he turned 25 he discovered he had extraordinary powers. But there were others who wanted to exploit those powers.

Search for the Signet is the first of the Orion Labauve series.

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Budget pain hits local governments in Colorado as costs rise, funding shrinks and the federal shutdown drags on Local governments across Colorado face budget deficits in 2026. Some are tapping their reserves to keep families fed as SNAP benefits lapse.

Local governments across Colorado face budget deficits in 2026. Some are tapping their reserves to keep people fed as SNAP benefits lapse.