Kittieme reports on the kindness of a baseball team.

As the Little League World Series entered the final rounds of the competition, teams from all over the world were traveling to Williamsport, Pennsylvania in attempt to be crowned the Little League Baseball champions. For the first time in sixty-six years, a team from Africa qualified. This Ugandan team was overjoyed to be a part of the Little League World series, and were assigned to room with a team from New Castle, Indiana. It was then when the Indiana team realized something about the Ugandan team - they brought hardly anything with them.

The boys from New Castle realized that their Ugandan roommates, and soon to be good friends, had packed next to nothing, some of them not even having a pair of shoes other than their cleats. The Indiana boys were unsettled by this, and told their parents they wanted to help. With the help of the New Castle adults in the area, the team began collecting baseball equipment, clothes, shoes, and other belongings for the team.

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MadMystic discusses the significance of mainstream cliches.

In a world of fiction writers, there is a monster we've come to call Mainstream. The force of Mainstream is so very strong that it can take a single idea, multiply it, feed from it, and leave it irreconcilable. These broken and abused ideas that Mainstream has drop-kicked into a bucket of other decrepit ideas are what the leaches of Mainstream call "cliche".

Vampires, werewolves, witches, wizards, paranormal romance, love triangles, etc. I could go on and on. But there are a few things I have to say about cliches. Firstly, they are a literary pendulum and WILL make a comeback. So, if you find yourself writing a "cliche" don't toss it. Save it for later. There is this common misconception that once an idea is brought to Mainstream's attention, it loses value; it is played-out forthwith. A reasonable suggestion, but untrue at least. Between these hypes there are intervals of "calm". After a few of these "calm periods" your idea is refreshed, as is your target audience.

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