Five More Minutes – 09Jul15

Puppies, headaches and Cameron Esposito. (Unrelated)

Five More Minutes – 08Jul15

Mental patterns are weird.

 

Five More Minutes – 07Jul15

A grumpy mood and the Penny Dreadful Season 2 Finale (Unrelated).

 

Five More Minutes – 06Jul15

Playing with my dog and talking about engineering.

 

Five More Minutes – 05Jul15

I finished playing “The Witcher”, a videogame on PC.

 

Five More Minutes – 04Jul15

Rambling about social progress while on cold medicine. It doesn’t GET any more American!

Five More Minutes – 03Jul15

Ordinary disappointments, and also Improv Mainstage and the movie “Tusk”

Five More Minutes – 02Jul15

An early, semi-drugged ramble.

Five More Minutes – 01Jul15

Still sick, narrated the latest episode of Podcastle, watched Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel.

Podcastle 370: Congratulations on Your Apotheosis

Originally posted here!

by Michelle Ann King
read by Christiana Ellis

First published in the anthology Unidentified Funny Objects 2, from UFO Publishing

As a life coach, Abby Fowler strongly discouraged magical thinking. It was better for people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than wait and hope for supernatural assistance. Better, and a lot more reliable.

So Abby would never advise anyone to use a spell, even one that came with impeccable provenance and the crackle of real power in every square inch of the ancient parchment it was inscribed on. Even one that was purely for divination, nothing more than a harmless bit of information-gathering that might, say, help someone with preparing a five-year business plan for their coaching practice in order to apply for a bank loan. She would never advise it because she knew that kind of thing never ended well.

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