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    The Fifth Day

    By Ed Hurst | Apr 8, 2009 at 22:51:12

    In this short story, Ed Hurst introduces us to an semi-apocalyptic army training scene. Our protagonist faces a difficult question: what does one do when one is required to train a new group of enlisted men for a cause that seems hopeless?



    The Royal Promise

    By Ed Hurst | Oct 9, 2008 at 0:7:49
    Imagine an everlasting promise given from God himself. Ed Hurst offers a dramatic recasting of God’s promise to David from 2 Samuel 7.

    Abram’s Journey

    By Ed Hurst | Dec 29, 2006 at 11:43:40
    To inaugurate our new fiction and creative works section, Associate Editor Ed Hurst provides a thoughtful dramatization from the Old Testament. The text comes from Genesis 12:1-3. Join Ed in following a bit of the life of the man who would become Abraham, the story of whom begins in media res (already in progress).

    The Disaster of the Rolling Release

    By Ed Hurst

    I've always enjoyed exploring. Every time I've moved from one residence to another, I've always wandered around my new neighborhood, simply to see what was there. It's the same with computer technology. I love poking around operating systems. Lately, one aspect of this has gotten tiring in every Open Source operating system: the rolling release. The phrase refers to the sometimes feverish effort to add new features, long before the old ones even work properly.

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