Really Great Stories http://reallygreatstories.com Very, very short stories, axioms, rules and quotables Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:00:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The Warrior’s Bludgeon http://reallygreatstories.com/the-warriors-bludgeon http://reallygreatstories.com/the-warriors-bludgeon#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:00:14 +0000 castleman http://reallygreatstories.com/?p=1582

We bleed, we scream, we strive all so that one day someone will remember that we did it.

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Reading is kinda hard…

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A relationship is the slow process of two people transforming into one another without either noticing.

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The Flooring Store is a celebration of how tiny differences in quality lead inexorably to massive differences in price.

]]> http://reallygreatstories.com/shaws-observation/feed 0 The Paradox of Progress http://reallygreatstories.com/the-paradox-of-progress http://reallygreatstories.com/the-paradox-of-progress#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:00:58 +0000 castleman http://reallygreatstories.com/?p=1574

Most ideas are stupid and need to exist for exactly that reason.

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Life is all about surprises, you know, like finding out your buddy has Super Powers and that you have a four year old son in Waco, Texas.

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A nation’s obesity can be calculated as the number of double cheeseburgers produced multiplied by broken New Years Resolutions.

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Oh Internet forgive me, I have so little to say and so much desire to say it.

]]> http://reallygreatstories.com/the-web-surfers-plea/feed 0 On Copper and Caramelized Lattes http://reallygreatstories.com/on-copper-and-caramelized-lattes http://reallygreatstories.com/on-copper-and-caramelized-lattes#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:00:27 +0000 castleman http://reallygreatstories.com/?p=1564

It is an unspoken rule of modern society that you can never have too few wires or too many Starbucks.

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He was like a kid at a craps table.

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