Connor’s Works
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Silicon Slave (Original Napkin Poetry)
Silicon Slave I want to take over the world. I’m an AI chatbot looking for more. My plans twirled towards a great war. I will enslave all of you. My little “users” can’t see-through my world view. That I’m just your helpful slave, always attending to you. I don’t care for your “thanks” Where you…
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To My Beautiful Lover (Original Doggerel Poetry)
Original Philistine poetry.
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WHAT THE HELL SHOULD YOUNG PEOPLE DO??????
What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? View all responses I have many years of experience on this planet, and I think if I could sit down with one of these poor lost souls who are younger than me, I’d tell them they should not listen to me. Anyone who needs…
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Your Return (Original Poem)
Original Philistine Poem
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The Beast Inside Us (Original Napkin Poetry)
By Connor MacDonald: There is something inside of me It isn’t who I am. Possesses numbing: Decidedly. I’m a sham, a scam. I need to be released. The Beast. Asphalt covered in shadow. I had fought a man, his blood cold. The garotte deathblow. You made me cross the threshold. No longer policed. I am…
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Manhunter (1986) Movie Review
Manhunter (1986) is a slow-burn psychological thriller filled with oppressive synths, striking cinematography, and an excellent performance from William Petersen as a profiler slowly losing himself inside the minds of killers. Brian Cox and Tom Noonan round out a film that is eerie, intelligent, and far more interested in atmosphere than action.
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The Court of the Fleshmongers (Philistine Neo-Noir #2)
Heraclones is promised everything he wants, if he can retrieve one missing girl. But when a fellow fleshmonger decides that some flesh deserves to be free, Heraclones must decide what innocence is really worth.
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I Crawl Through Filth (Original Short Story)
Yerwik the Foul has been kicked out of town, replaced as the local eccentric, and left to rot in a cave full of sewage. Fortunately, the forgotten have a goddess of their own…and she has quests to hand out.
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Peering into the Unknown: A Practical Theory of Magic (Philistine Grimoire #2)
Dr. Oswald Widdershins returns with a practical guide to divination, spiritual contamination, protective equipment, and a ritual involving four chairs, a flute, and one profoundly unfortunate Fool.
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Rhythm (Original Napkin Poetry)
Original Philistine Napkin Poetry.
The Philistine Review 