There’s also a difference between certain types of self-deception and lies that erode our integrity. In his novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky wrote, “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot ...
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“Liars” is about the lying mind of the Unreliable Narrator. He will say anything to get what he wants, he will even say lies in a seemingly arbitrary fashion. There is a small voice far in the back of his mind telling him that beyond truth and lies, love is the answer to happiness...
Although lying was a relatively infrequent occurrence for the majority of our participants, there were a small number of prolific liars who told a disproportionately large number of lies using this medium. Additionally, we found some support for the argument that deception occurs less frequently in ...
soulless zombie, and therefore does not want to grow out of her current mind set. She dresses with,"Black shit" on her eyes, like a small child getting reedy for Halloween. She eats like a small child as well. With her Cap'n Crunch pixy sitx sandwich. And who lies more than a ...
While I believe that teams are mostly honest in their height-recordings, the arbitrary “shoes or no shoes” allowance irks. It seems that a larger body should codify one way of doing this, rather than accept an over two-inch margin of error. And what if a team blatantly lies? I asked...
be the queen, while four friends from Rosewood just try to stay afloat. One girl makes a shocking choice for a homecoming that puts her in a possibly sticky situation. Will the girls be able to protect one of their own or will the evening turn out to be a night they can never forget...
2speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,3forbidding to marry,and commandingto abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.4For every creature of Godisgood, and nothing is to be refused...
but it is nonetheless my story throughout. The money I did not make and the lies I did not tell I still understood in a personal way because of my position. That was somewhere near the center of a modern gold rush. Never before have so many unskilled twenty-four-year-olds made so mu...
C. T. Kingston is a London-based writer of flash fiction and short stories. Her dramatic monologues have been performed in London, Leeds and Hong Kong, and her story ‘The Icicle’ will appear in the forthcoming Arachne Press anthologyWeird Liesin Autumn 2013. Comments and job offers to cat...