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	<title>Monkey Sword Fight</title>
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	<description>Keep away from sharp objects.</description>
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		<title>The start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The start is always the worst. Most people don&#8217;t think about the start. It&#8217;s just something that&#8217;s there, that they have to go through to get to good part. But the start is the foundation of everything else and without a good foundation everything else will fall down and crumble. The start is tricky for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2008/05/07/the-start/</link>
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		<title>Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I take six men with me. My gut is telling me why Walters hasn&#8217;t reported back, but I don&#8217;t listen to it. I don&#8217;t want to think of that possibility. Yet it seemed like the only one. The gray ooze from the nest egg dissolves a ship&#8217;s hull directly under it, give them access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2008/02/19/rescue/</link>
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		<title>Exposure, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stayed at home for the next few days. I was completely freaked out. I kept telling myself that I imagined the entire thing. That my mind had finally snapped and imagined Edward doing that to justify my irrational hate towards him. I wasn&#8217;t comforted by the fact that two days later I heard over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/29/recuperation/</link>
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		<title>Exposure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They tell you not to be afraid of the dark. That there&#8217;s nothing to be afraid of. How I wish they right. It started about six months ago. I had been living a normal life up until then. I was going to school, studying programing. I had an internship lined up at Microsoft for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/29/exposure/</link>
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		<title>Evac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting the civilians off the ship was easy. They all understood the severity of the situation and what was at risk. The harder part was getting the rest of the crew on the same page as I was. &#8220;They want to do what to the ship?&#8221; &#8220;You heard me Sergeant.&#8221; Walters is a good man. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/26/evac/</link>
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		<title>Command, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I take another deep breath. I hate dealing with Command. I reach out, open the door and take a step inside the command deck. Despite my feelings for the current state of Command, the Command deck itself still fills me with a sense of pride. No mater what disgraces the current leadership of the Navy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/25/command-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Command</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning how to combat the Scarabs didn&#8217;t make it any easier. Their random pattern of attack infuriated our commanders. Combined with a time frame of less then 30 minutes between the nest egg landing and the planet being lost, there wasn&#8217;t much we were able to do. Finally the leaders of our great Federation decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/21/command/</link>
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		<title>Scarabs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking down the hall to the command deck, I can&#8217;t help but think of how much I&#8217;ve grown to hate Command. Feelings not suitable for a senior officer, I know. As a kid the only thing I wished for was to be able to fly in the Navy like my grandfather; be a Captain of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/20/scarabs/</link>
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		<title>EVA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Darkness surrounds me. Scattered throughout the endless black are countless pinpricks of light reminding me of my insignificance. I take a deep breath. I hate EVAs. I slowly turn myself around and face the ship. Another breath and I grab a one of the ladder&#8217;s rungs next to the airlock&#8217;s door. I pull myself up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2007/11/19/new-story/</link>
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		<title>Bah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People annoy me. &#8220;I put a period, but its at the top, not the bottom.&#8221; How am I supposed to respond to that. If it&#8217;s not at the bottom, then its obviously not a period. Anyway, I need to vent. And I want to do it in a creative and productive manner. And so without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monkeyswordfight.com/2006/08/02/bah/</link>
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