<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Pierce on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/pierce/</link><description>Recent content in Pierce on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/pierce/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Forgotten Lessons</title><link>/stories/2016/11/11/forgotten-lessons/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2016/11/11/forgotten-lessons/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Warning!  Some portions of this story contains elements of extreme pain, body modification, and blood which readers may find difficult and/or too graphic to read. If descriptive text of this nature bothers you, I recommend you find a lighter story to read. EPL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Paul…are you there? Pick-up if you are there Paul. I called to tell you about my flight, or, better yet, lack of one. The plane had an engine explode during take-off. Yes! Actually explode! Don’t worry. It happened almost as soon as the pilot throttled up and we never left the ground. There were no injuries and we simply returned to the gate. They called it a catastrophic failure of engine two. There will not be another flight available until tomorrow so I have to stay in London again tonight. If you get this message in the next half hour or so, give me a call; otherwise, I will call you in a couple of hours. I love you slave! Bye.”&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>