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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 3: Burger Empire | Live Reading
TCaroline Friday enters The Midas Protocol in Chapter Three with purple-streaked hair, a bad attitude and a desperate need for a job that will carry her through Christmas. Unfortunately, that job is cooking burgers inside the greasy kitchen of Burger Empire for an overbearing creep named Pete.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 1: The Gold Box | Live Reading
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Midas Files: Live Readings, recorded live from Midas Files Mission Control. In this episode, author Matt De Reno reads “The Gold Box,” the complete opening chapter of his science-fiction thriller, The Midas Protocol.
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Bingham's Notebook: Character Profile — Hank Raglan In The Midas Protocol
Hank Raglan is a 24-year-old materials engineer from West View, a working-class suburb north of Pittsburgh. The year is 1989.
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Bingham's Notebook: Character Profile — Addison Moore In The Midas Protocol
Addison Moore is a 25-year-old Executive Corporate Communications Specialist at Unalco World Headquarters in 1989. Beautiful, intelligent, and intensely ambitious, she is steadily climbing the corporate ladder and already moves comfortably among senior executives, consultants, and important corporate guests. She helps coordinate high-profile events such as Unalco’s Global Communicators Conference and has learned that presentation, preparation, and self-control are essential to succeeding in the executive world.
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The Scratching Post: I Survived My First Ever Live Stream – But Just Barely!
Last Sunday night, I finally did my first live reading of The Midas Protocol on YouTube, and the biggest success was simply that I did it. I staged the office, put the Midas Files poster in place, set the tesseract on the table, got the Yeti Nano working through OBS, mounted the phone on its tripod, and then sat down and read an entire chapter for better or worse.
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Man Arrives in Heaven, Discovers Eternal Life Now Requires Monthly Subscription
THE PEARLY GATES — In what theologians are calling the most significant change to the afterlife since somebody decided clouds needed harps, a recently deceased Ohio man was shocked to discover that eternal salvation apparently now operates on a subscription model.
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TechGnosis: Roman Aqueducts - Watering An Empire on Gravity
Every once in a while, ancient technology makes modern technology look a little less impressive.
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Bingham's Notebook: Chapter File — Midas Protocol - Chapter 1 “The Gold Box”
Chapter 1 of The Midas Protocol begins with a man who has just accomplished the impossible and already suspects that it may cost him his life.
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Sites: Building Places for Ideas to Live
I've been building websites in one form or another for a long time.Some have supported my own writing and creative projects. Others have grown into publications of their own. I've also developed sites professionally and for clients, which has given me plenty of opportunities to discover both how much a good content management system can do—and how quickly a website can become a mess if nobody thinks about how all of that content is supposed to fit together.
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Cool Filmz: I am watching Star Wars in Machete Order and It Changes Everything
I still remember sitting in a dark movie theater in the summer of 1977, clutching my popcorn as the words “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” appeared on the screen.
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