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Feb 19, 2012

Cousin Delbertina

This prompted no less that 54 reports that a sasquatch was kidnapping a human.

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Feb 19, 2012

My Family

If you're going to write about strange things, what better to write about than your own family? Please note that these fictional family members are only a bit stranger than my real family.

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Feb 19, 2012

Brother Liam

Now, Mom & Dad could deal with him waddling about and quacking and eating bits of bread that they'd toss into the pond, but his continued attempts to fly kept...

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Feb 19, 2012

Cousin Amy

She would be as opaque as you or I one minute, and then slowly fade away to complete invisibility.

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Feb 19, 2012

Aunt Fern

Aunt Fern believed that she was actually the secret granddaughter of Emperor Joshua Norton, whom she claimed...

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Feb 19, 2012

Uncle Smitty

Old Uncle Smitty was about 85 when I was 10 and he used to tell us kids all sorts of great stories about...

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Feb 19, 2012

Cousin Lars

By the time he turned 40, Lars was as paranoid as a cat in a yard full of sleeping pitbulls.

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Feb 19, 2012

Aunt Tessie

Uncle Ferd fell asleep watching a Giants game one night and when he woke up he was covered in butterflies, lilacs and a kitten.

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Feb 19, 2012

Uncle Mephisto

Now, he wasn't trying for these pyrotechnics, but we kids sure loved watching them, despite our mothers telling us to 'Stand back! Farther! FARTHER!'

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Feb 19, 2012

Uncle Enoch

He had been a rather famous big game hunter in his youth, until it was discovered that...

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Feb 19, 2012

The Dociverse EXPANDED Sitemap

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Feb 19, 2012

Horror Table-Top Roleplaying

Sitemap of Horror content for Table-Top Roleplaying Games

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Feb 19, 2012

Welcome to The Dociverse!

The Dociverse is the multi-verse of Robert 'Doc' Cross

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Feb 18, 2012

After The Change Came

These entries all provide background for the first of my fiction blogs, which you can find not quite daily on my Live Journal, 'Oops, Wrong Planet!'

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Feb 18, 2012

Make A Donation, Get Your Idea In The Doclopedia

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Feb 15, 2012

Stoney Flint Elemental Detective

Stoney Flint was, as described by his secretary, Polly Zephyr, 'a half a ton of real man,' with 'a strong chin, a chipped nose and eyes that could look right through ya'.

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Feb 15, 2012

By The Numbers: 25

Little did she know when she and her dog Andy went hiking that ...

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Feb 14, 2012

Nevada "Robostate!"

Two years into the Human/Robot War, the robots, who were winning, made the world an offer they couldn't refuse: Give them ... and they'd stop fighting. The humans agreed without hesitation.

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Feb 14, 2012

California "Hooray for Hollyweird"

No, our story now moves ahead seven years to the third upgrade of the AI that all of these robots used. You remember, the one that made them all self aware?

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Feb 14, 2012

Surf Robots (Skynet Studios, 1968)

Anyway, these daring athletes, who risk shorting out or rusting away at an early age, fascinated young DirectorBot Scorsese 37/Y, ...

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Feb 14, 2012

R is for Robotic Raiders

The Robotic Raiders were a race of sentient robot pirates who landed on Earth in 1978 and proceeded to rob and pillage for about a week before beaming back up to their spacecraft with ...

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Feb 14, 2012

Powered Armorsuit Dragonfire

The basic idea was to construct a weapon that could be used to fight the Demon Robots that were on the rise and terrorizing the country.

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Feb 14, 2012

Law Enforcement Unit 3-DR/44 "Wyatt Earp"

3-DR/44, or Wyatt Earp as the meat units know him, is the primary law enforcement robot in the Madison Sector of Wisconsin Territory.

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Feb 14, 2012

Detective Ted E. Bear

Dolly hookers, action figure gangs, rowdy wind up robots or stuffed toy mobsters, Detective Bear is on their asses like poop on a diaper.

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Feb 14, 2012

Clankwell

... when this wispy haired old chap strolls in with some sort of mechanical man thingy. Why, it caused Biffo Lumley to miss his shot and very nearly put the dart in his bulldog, Jasper. Well, as you might cogitate, we all had to investigate ...

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Feb 14, 2012

Darwin AKA Mars Biological Experiment Robot

Darwin was the nickname given to the robot that landed on Mars in 2002 for the express purpose of conducting experiments designed to see how certain Terran lifeforms fared on the Red Planet. This was not supposed to be an exercise in terraforming. Oops!

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Feb 14, 2012

C-115/B AKA Dogbot

...it would begin shipping 'the cutting edge in robotic pets,' Dogbot. This canine robot would be, the press releases said, 'the ultimate pet and the finest robotic unit' available to the general populace. Then came the disastrous product demonstration ... which was ... broadcast worldwide.

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Feb 14, 2012