<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951229141492260066</id><updated>2012-02-16T06:28:46.595-08:00</updated><category term='short story #1'/><title type='text'>A Collection of Short Stories</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2951229141492260066/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14011920424020554783</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951229141492260066.post-4782837688085928005</id><published>2011-12-09T16:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T11:57:20.620-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='short story #1'/><title type='text'>Prologue</title><content type='html'>I was young once, and when I was young I joking told my best friend that I hoped to wake up from a drunken stupor, in my mid-thirties, and say, "Whoa, that was one hell of a ride."  We had a good laugh about that one.  It wasn't so funny when it came true, albeit a few years earlier than I had predicted, and I didn't think it was one hell of a ride, I only thought it was hell....&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2951229141492260066-4782837688085928005?l=charlesstepp.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/feeds/4782837688085928005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/2011/12/prologue.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2951229141492260066/posts/default/4782837688085928005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2951229141492260066/posts/default/4782837688085928005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/2011/12/prologue.html' title='Prologue'/><author><name>Chuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14011920424020554783</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951229141492260066.post-6676801826312046656</id><published>2011-12-09T16:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T11:57:00.202-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='short story #1'/><title type='text'>Eulogy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut,&lt;br /&gt;Not everyone was born to be a king,&lt;br /&gt;Not everyone can be Freddie Mercury,&lt;br /&gt;But everyone can raise a glass and sing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I haven’t always been a perfect person,&lt;br /&gt;And I haven’t done what mum and dad had dreamed,&lt;br /&gt;But on the day I die I’ll say “At least I fucking tried”,&lt;br /&gt;And that’s the only Eulogy I need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Frank Turner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VXJoexZBMcA" allowfullscreen="" width="420" frameborder="0" height="315"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2951229141492260066-6676801826312046656?l=charlesstepp.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/feeds/6676801826312046656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/2011/12/eulogy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2951229141492260066/posts/default/6676801826312046656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2951229141492260066/posts/default/6676801826312046656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://charlesstepp.blogspot.com/2011/12/eulogy.html' title='Eulogy'/><author><name>Chuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14011920424020554783</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/VXJoexZBMcA/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
