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StoryThe Politics of Concrete mac_ashton122 months 1 week ago
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StoryMARKeting (5) mac_ashton06 months 6 days ago
StoryMarketing - Epilogue mac_ashton06 months 6 days ago
StoryThe Agent - Part 2 mac_ashton16 months 1 week ago
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StoryThree Doors (Part 1 of 2) mac_ashton98 months 12 hours ago
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StoryThe First Ambassador to Crustacea - 1 mac_ashton92 years 1 month ago
StoryYuletide Loops mac_ashton72 years 4 months ago
CollectionCrustacea mac_ashton02 years 6 months ago
CollectionA Man of the Mountain [2018] mac_ashton02 years 6 months ago
StoryTwo Ways to Win [1 of 2] mac_ashton02 years 6 months ago
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StoryThe End, For Real This Time, Or Is It? mac_ashton02 years 7 months ago
StoryThe Labor Day Ghost mac_ashton22 years 7 months ago
Forum topicCrustacea - Reviews mac_ashton13 years 5 months ago
StoryThe First Ambassador to Crustacea - 10 mac_ashton14 years 1 week ago
StoryThe First Ambassador to Crustacea - 9 mac_ashton04 years 2 weeks ago

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The Politics of Concrete

By mac_ashton on Wed, 11 Feb 2026

Johnny Faucet and Billy Sink—not their given names—were deep in the bowels of a concrete processing plant at a time when no one was supposed to be...
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Just in Case

By mac_ashton on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

​Lenny sat down on a faded bar stool held together by duct tape. One needn’t be picky at the end of the world. Despite the dire warnings in the paper...
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Escalation

By mac_ashton on Thu, 15 Jan 2026

Sergeant Conrad was well versed in the art of warfare negotiation, but nothing could have prepared him for The Big Room. Deep in the bowels of a...
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Please Hold

By mac_ashton on Fri, 09 Jan 2026

When the world ends, humanity will be dangling by a rope it invented. In the late 21 st Century, technology advanced with blinding speed, outpacing...
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Marketing - Epilogue

By mac_ashton on Fri, 17 Oct 2025

Previous Chapter Epilogue – Retirement For the earliest humans, retirement was a simple principle: When someone was unable to work due to age or...
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3 of my comments have received 3 Great Feedback votes

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Oh my god, that is amazing

Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

Oh my god, that is amazing and I had never heard it. Can you imagine nuclear war because Cuba ran out of ice?

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Thanks for reading! This one

Posted on Thu, 15 Jan 2026

Thanks for reading! This one is inspired by a news story I read last year. I didn't realize that military forces will often tell each other a strike is coming so they can clear personnel out. On the one hand, glad people aren't being hurt in that...

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Thank you very much! I will

Posted on Mon, 04 Aug 2025

Thank you very much! I will put this in my quarterly performance report. 

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