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Though Kendrick's Monster is a work of fiction, it is not pure fabrication. All the crimes described within have a firm foundation in factual modern experience. Consider:
- At the age of three, Theodore Bundy awakened his caregiver when he disturbed her while stashing large knives under her mattress. He killed for the first time when he was fourteen, at which time a local neighborhood girl disappeared to her death. Bundy often wandered the streets at night, playing with 'imaginary friends', which activity quickly developed into criminal voyeurism.
- Jesse Pomeroy regularly tortured and killed animals as a young child. He brutally murdered two young boys when he was only fourteen years of age. While the evidence against him was instantly damning (they found the mummified corpse of one young girl in the basement of his home), and despite his many confessions, Pomeroy eventually claimed he was innocent, because 'a voice in [his] head' told him to say so.
- As early as the age of eight, Arthur Shawcross developed 'imaginary' friends, with which he would speak using 'strange voices'. By his early teens, he spent hours walking in the woods yelling at inanimate objects and beating the undergrowth with a stick, as if in torment from unseen demons.
- David Berkowitz said of his crimes, "The demons never stopped. I couldn't sleep. I had no strength to fight. I could barely drive. Coming home from work one night, I almost killed myself in the car. I needed to sleep. The demons wouldn't give me any peace."
While these are merely anecdotal illustrations of a murderous psyche's development, they nonetheless beg a central question; are these individuals evil and what is the true nature of this evil?
Perhaps these are real, tangible demons born of an unknown, nether world. Worse still, perhaps they are fantastic, intangible demons, born of a tormented mind, fashioned from the fabric of the human nature, which is the fabric that binds us all.
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Guide three powerful wizards who control the forces of earth, fire and water through a 50 stage adventure in a magical fantasy land. Learn how to use their elemental spells cooperatively to negotiate the terrain, and out-smart a host of interesting creatures such as fire frogs, walking cacti and torchguys. Matthius is the Red Wizard of Fire. He can walk safely over lava and through fire, and his fire spell can burn down trees and eliminate some enemies. Howard is the Green Wizard of Earth. He can walk through trees, and his earth spell can make trees grow, which can block enemies or hold down switches. Skimlet is the Blue Wizard of Water. He can walk on water and cross ice without slipping. His water spell can dowse fires and destroy some fiery enemies. You can play all the levels in any order, guiding the wizard trio to their sparkling goals stage by stage. Plus the full version comes with an unconditional 60-day money-back guarantee. Great fun for the whole family... and highly addictive!
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The Piggybank screensaver populates your desktop with walking pigs, or rather, piggybanks.
You can set the number of pigs, toggle sound, have your desktop as background or a black screen and choose to add dropshadows.
The piggybanks make it a real screen_saver_.
New in v1.3: speed option.
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NEW! Walking on Mars screensaver. See the planet from the GROUND! Walking on Mars is a breathtaking journey on the surface of mars, presenting over 70 rarely seen photographs from the Mars Rovers, over 30 minutes of (mutable) rich stereo music, and 50 customizable transition effects. 34mb disk space.
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The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that her Uncle does not wish to see her, which is fine with Mary as she herself is rude and spoiled. While walking the gardens the next day, Mary notices that there is a area in the garden surrounded with a high stone wall and no doorway. Dickon, brother of a house maid, tells her of the garden behind the wall. By the path, the raven unearths the hidden key so that Mary and Dickon are able to enter the walled garden to find it overgrown and neglected. Inside the house, she finds that Archibald has a son named Colin, who is crippled and as spoiled as she. Together these three work to make the secret garden their own world.
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EdIt! v1.2 -- A fast, windowed, mouseable replacement for DOS's EDIT command. Ideal for BAT and text files under 64k, especially on networks: no more walking around to update users' files! Program size is less than 81k. Features: open multiple files (with wildcards!) and preset groups of files, wordwrap, network support, desktop save & restore, mono/28/43/50 video, variable right margin & tabs and more. By SRT Enterprises, $19.95.
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