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A Novel – In 55 Words a Day
Day 169, June 18th, 2017
Chapter One: A Funny Child
Kathy loved jokes.
Her laughter was the first thing her parents noticed about her. It
alerted them to the fact that she was different.
Even as an infant she picked up on the punch lines, understanding the spoken
words, the inferences that were made. She understood these exchanges months
before she had learned to speak.
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Day 170, June 19th, 2017
Chapter Two: A Strange
Child
Kathy was as quiet as she was observant.
She did not flit about randomly like infants and
toddlers do.
She was focused, balanced, and cautious.
She repeated sounds and gestures in patterns that
quickly became noticeable to her parents.
She was training herself, quickening the pace by which
she would learn to walk, and talk.
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Day 171,
June 20th, 2017
Chapter
Three: A Frightening Child
Kathy was crawling within weeks of being born, and walking within a
few short months.
By her first birthday she was dancing.
Kathy practiced and practiced in the quiet moments of her day, at
night, in the dark, while her parents slept.
She did not speak a word until she was speaking in complete sentences.
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Day 172,
June 21st, 2017
Chapter Four: Discipline
The direction for her exercises came from deep within herself.
Kathy’s memories spoke to her, they guided her, the ancestral voices
focused her, kept her calm, allowing her to see her own life and experiences
in the context of the collective experiences swelling within her.
She formed plans spontaneously, in order to realize her goals.
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Day 173,
June 22nd, 2017
Chapter Five: Conformity
Whatever her parents tried to teach her, Kathy took to with ease
She mastered complex tasks without effort.
The only thing that took time was developing muscle memory, which
required repetition.
She struggled with the skill of blending in, hiding her differences.
It was only through the most diligent habits of mindfulness that she
succeeded.
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Day 174,
June 23rd, 2017
Chapter Six: Quietude
For Kathy to get along, she learned to be silent, listen, wait, to let
the others around her fail.
She could not insert herself into their activity, she could not
correct them, or provide the right answer.
She learned to experience success as a private affair, only harkening
to the applause that came from within.
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Day 175,
June 24th, 2017
Chapter Seven: Other
Kathy was unique.
She was different from every other human being on the planet,
different from everyone who had ever been.
She was still young when she realized that difference.
Understanding it did not help her manage her feelings, or those of
others.
Her parents were afraid, afraid for her. She was like an alien.
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Section Four, Kathy
Part Twenty-four, Adolesence
Collected Chapters
01 Anger
02 Doubt
03
Disturbance
04 Rage
05 Refuge
06
Attraction
07
Sexuality
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Day 176,
June 25th, 2017
Chapter One: Anger
Kathy understood the things she was going through, the physical
transformations of adolescence, but like much of her knowledge, her
comprehension of it was abstract. It was disconnected from her actual
experience.
Understanding had little power to quell the rank emotions rising
within her body, the chemical miasma fuming within her which every youth
experiences.
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Day 177,
June 26th, 2017
Chapter Two: Doubt
As a child Kathy was composed.
She always acted with a semblance of poise and surety
that even in an adult, would have marked her as unusual.
As she matured, when in public, she was paralyzed by
insecurity.
Am I insane, she thought, who am I.
The answers she gleaned shook her to the core.
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Day 178,
June 27th, 2017
Chapter
Three: Disturbance
Her parents did whatever they could to help Kathy, bringing in tutors,
and sending her to special schools.
Out of frustration and deep resentment she lashed out at her teachers.
She mocked them, she alienated everyone who came in contact with her.
Between the ages of nine and fifteen her family moved a dozen times.
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Day 179, June 28th, 2017
Chapter Four: Rage
Kathy burned with hatred.
Her contempt for everyone she came in contact with lit a fire deep in
her belly. There was no talking it away.
There was no therapeutic approach to help her mitigate those feelings.
In order to cope, she turned the heat and violence inward, focusing
all of that energy on herself.
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Day 180, June 29th, 2017
Chapter Five: Refuge
In time Kathy learned to separate herself from her emotions.
She found peace in meditations that took her outside of her body.
With an ability that no human being ever had before, she entered the
cynergenic field, creating a distance from the structured feelings of her own
body, and discovered unity with everyone on earth.
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Day 181, June 30th, 2017
Chapter Six: Attraction
She needed a place to escape.
Kathy found distraction in the passions of her body.
She was able to forget herself, and the world around her, in
uncritical, careless delights.
She lost herself in beautiful people, in the present moment, in the
desires that were immediate.
She concentrated all of her attention in the now.
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Day 182, July 1st, 2017
Chapter Seven: Sexuality
Kathy found peace, release, and freedom in the orgasm.
The energy of a sexual climax took her to a place beyond space and
time.
The universe contracted, as did her psychic connection to humanity.
From her first time with her first lover, to the last man she took
into her bed, it was the same.
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Section Four, Kathy
Part Twenty-five, Abnormal
Collected Chapters
01 School
02 Testing
03
Sequestered
04
Institutionalized
05
Experiment
06 Psychic
07 Think
Tank
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Day 183, July 2nd, 2017
Chapter One: School
When she was five years old, instead of beginning kindergarten, Kathy’s
parents placed her in a private tutelage. They took this step because they were
continuously unnerved by her manners.
They were afraid of her, and they feared for her.
They were desperate to help her, and eager to be released from their
parental obligations.
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Day 184, July 3rd, 2017
Chapter Two: Testing
The behavior of every tutor Kathy’s parents contracted
to teach her fell into a pattern they learned to dread.
At first they were delighted, then scared.
They tested her, wrote about, and then they sought to exploit
her.
Every one of them was convinced that the fate of the
world hinged on learning her secrets.
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Day 185, July 4th, 2017
Chapter
Three: Sequestered
By her tenth birthday; Kathy’s parents decided to forego tutors.
They put her in the care of doctors, and clergy, people with a broader
commitment to supernal values.
They entrusted them to guard her education.
Kathy was alone, she was not a child, she had no parents.
She was a patient; the subject of fascination.
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Day 186, July 5th, 2017
Chapter Four: Institutionalized
It took a great deal of time for Kathy’s proctors and advisors to find
a place for her.
When the did, they told her it was a home for prodigies, gifted
youngsters, but it was a front for National Security.
It was safe. Only those who had been entrusted to help her, had
betrayed her.
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Day 187, July 6th, 2017
Chapter Five: Experiment
Kathy read, she listened, watched.
She engaged all of her senses in the act of probing her memories.
She studied, took tests, and she was tested, probed, examined by her
proctors for the limits of her knowledge.
There were many occasions when she was unaware of what was
transpiring, but she learned to see patterns.
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Day 188, July 7th, 2017
Chapter Six: Psychic
Kathy’s handlers had never considered the concept of an “ordinary
psychic.”
Genuine telepaths were exceedingly rare, but they existed.
In the later 20th century their abilities were tested,
analyzed, put to use by spy agencies and police forces around the world.
Psychic abilities of any degree were extraordinary.
Kathy’s gifts required a completely different understanding.
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Day 189, July 8th, 2017
Chapter Seven: Think Tank
Kathy’s moods normalized as she grew older, and adjusted to the
reality of her differences.
She found resources in her memory to guide her in the development of
self-control.
Her gift for analyzing data grew exponentially.
Institutions formed around her, access to Kathy was more valuable to
national intelligence than access to the fastest super-computer.
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Section Four, Kathy
Part Twenty-six, Adulthood
Collected Chapters
01 A Place
in the World
02 Valued
03 Work
04 Career
05
National Security
06
Religion
07 Writing
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Day 190, July 9th, 2017
Chapter One: A Place in the
World
As she advanced in her skills and gained control of her powers, Kathy’s
sensitivity to the motives of those around her became profound.
The intentions of the analysts who questioned her were an open book.
Millions of dollars were spent to mask them, to foster in her a sense
of belonging, with ever increasing difficulty.
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Day 191, July 10th, 2017
Chapter Two: Valued
In her work place, every little detail of her
environment was contrived, scripted, fake.
No effort was spared to engender within Kathy feelings
of safety, and love.
In her youth Kathy saw through the contrivances, while
valuing the sentiments behind it, taking those for genuine.
Over time all the false fronts vanished. She was
cynical.
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Day 192, July 11th, 2017
Chapter
Three: Work
The analysts came to see her nearly every day, Sundays being her only
respite.
Kathy listened to them.
She read their papers, watched their films, and when they put
questions to her, she shared her insight from the depths of her memory.
She read ancient languages, interpreted obscure symbols, and saw the
patterns in everything.
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Day 193, July 12th, 2017
Chapter Four: Career
Kathy loved problem solving. She took joy in it, helping people
pleased her. It gave her a sense of purpose.
In the cases she was presented, or the analysis she was asked to give,
the greater the complexity and length of time, the better it was for her.
She was fascinated by
encountering new things.
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Day 194, July 13th, 2017
Chapter Five: National Security
In order to maintain their own secrecy, her handlers deliberately
narrowed Kathy’s focus.
They sought her understanding of minute details, doing everything they
could to limit the information that she could glean from them.
She kept her full abilities masked.
She never revealed to them how easy it was for her to penetrate their
thoughts.
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Day 195, July 14th, 2017
Chapter Six: Religion
Religious conflicts began to shape the later 20th, and the
early 21st centuries. Kathy’s input regarding the origins of these
conflicts was invaluable.
Her ability to pinpoint
specific moments in time that were the antecedents of tribal conflict was
uncanny.
Her memory produced volumes of insight, but questions along those
lines left her deeply disturbed.
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Day 196, July 15th, 2017
Chapter Seven: Writing
The intelligence operatives stopped visiting Kathy in person, they engaged
her by proxy, through handlers.
They submitted questions in writing.
She in turn wrote papers giving detail, and context, responding to the
questions they submitted to her.
Oftentimes she did not answer questions directly, she supported their
work by helping them to ask better questions.
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Section Four, Kathy
Part Twenty-seven, Isolated
Collected Chapters
01 Art
02 Music
03 Dance
04 Diet
05
Academic
06 Recluse
07 Travel
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Day 197, July 16th, 2017
Chapter One: Art
Kathy journeyed inside herself, reliving lifetimes through memory, in
quantum time.
She developed austere habits and disciplines; learning muscle control,
discernment, patience. She developed the ability to flesh out the memories
she wandered in, to experience them for herself as if she were truly living.
There was no path too remote for her to follow.
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Day 198, July 17th, 2017
Chapter Two: Music
Of all the “normal” things that people occupied
themselves with, the little things that filled up their day, music was the
most difficult for Kathy.
It changed so little over time.
If she was careless, a melody could cause her to slip,
without knowing, into another lifetime
A beating drum told a hundred thousand stories.
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Day 199, July 18th, 2017
Chapter
Three: Dance
When Kathy danced she moved without thinking.
She lost herself in the drums and rhythms.
She abandoned time in movement, in the moments flowing from the
present fuge into past ages.
She relived the steps of her ancestors, felt their feelings, their
fears and their hopes for the future.
Dance was a place of transcendence.
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Day 200, July 19th, 2017
Chapter Four: Diet
Eating was a necessity, she could not avoid the nexus of memories it
brought her to.
Flavors and odors haunted her.
Taste and smell transported her instantly to past times, to past ages.
Kathy found solace in the bland, comfort in modern processed foods, foods
that were completely new, and entirely foreign to human experience.
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Day 201, July 20th, 2017
Chapter Five: Academic
After years of working with Kathy, her handlers come to appreciate the
dangers of interacting with her directly regarding matters of national
security.
They determined to engage her at a distance, as a result she was
allowed a semblance of a normal life.
She was placed in a small college, she did research and wrote.
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Day 202, July 21st, 2017
Chapter Six: Recluse
Kathy had developed the ability to ward off psychic intrusions.
She built mental walls to ensure her privacy, to keep the thoughts and
feelings of other people from seeping into her mental flow.
Those defenses required constant mindfulness, a diligence that stole
her energy. And so, in order to rest, she preferred to be alone.
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Day 203, July 22nd, 2017
Chapter Seven: Travel
Her handlers wanted Kathy close to them, under observation at all
times.
They utilized a revolving network of spies to keep an eye on her.
Overtime, and with everyone linked by satellite they gained the
ability to track her comings and goings in real time.
Her autonomy increased. Every little bit they gave, she took.
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Section Four, Kathy
Part Twenty-eight, Encounter
Collected Chapters
01 Watched
02
Correspondence
03
Conversation
04 Meeting
05 A Man
Like No Other
06 Desire
07 Jim
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Day 204, July 23rd, 2017
Chapter One: Watched
Kathy began to feel something strange and unfamiliar.
She felt as if she was being followed by someone, and she was used to
being followed, but this time she was being followed by a man who was not
connected to the agencies she worked with.
His face evoked powerful memories.
She could not read him.
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Day 205, July 24th, 2017
Chapter Two: Correspondence
Kathy ignored the fact that the letter in her box was
not stamped or metered.
Its arrival was unexpected.
She was delighted.
There was a mystery in front of her, she did not have a
clue where it might lead.
She peeled the envelope open, took out its contents, and
read it, entering into conspiracy.
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Day 206, July 25th, 2017
Chapter
Three: Conversation
The phone rang. The man who spoke to her, spoke in a language that had
been dead for millennia.
Her heart began to race, and skip. For the first time since she was an
infant, she was not alone, and yet, she was slightly disturbed by his
presence at the other end of the line.
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Day 207, July 26th, 2017
Chapter Four: Meeting
They met at a café Kathy frequented, a busy place.
Kathy liked crowds.
The more people around her, the easier it was for her to allow the
psychic chatter of each individual to blend together as background noise.
She felt safe.
It was a place where it was not unusual for strangers to sit together.
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Day 208, July 27th, 2017
Chapter Five: A Man Like No
Other
Kathy was at ease with Jim.
The sound of his voice soothed her.
He used patterns of speech, and inflection that leapt into her
consciousness as if he were speaking from her memories.
That first contact with him was a dream.
The most significant thing about him was that she could not read his
mind.
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Day 209, July 28th, 2017
Chapter Six: Desire
Meeting Jim, it was the first time she had ever encountered a human being
who she could not fathom in an instant, and all she wanted to do was to be absorbed
by him, to lose herself in him, as everyone she had ever met was lost in her.
She felt distinct.
She felt desire.
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Day 210, July 29th, 2017
Chapter Seven: Jim
Being with Jim, Kathy felt peace, and comfort.
She was like a child with her father.
His mind was still. He was utterly opaque.
She knew that he was an ancient person, an alien, an anomaly, and yet
nevertheless human.
He was not like her, he was something different, and she loved him
without question.
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