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My entry for `Memnalar's All Hallow's Tales competition.

Tried to do something a little different with this one. Knowing how Benford's Law works isn't really necessary to the story, but if you wanted to read up on it a bit, you can check out this site here. The idea for revealing corruption via statistics came from listening to an episode of Radiolab that talked about Benford's Law. They obviously weren't associating it with demons, but I was also thinking about Jay's contest and whammo! The ideas came together.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it. Thanks to Jay for providing a prompt that forced me to write outside my comfort zone. It's always a really fun thing to do, and I learned a lot by doing it. I've uploaded this as a .pdf just to try out the new reader, but if that doesn't work for everyone I can rejig it? Let me know if you have any issues.

EDIT: Okay so people had issues. I've uploaded a scrap in dA text mode to my scrapbook here.
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Given 2012-02-14
Death and taxes is an unusual, gritty and engaging story by `apocathary. If you have trouble with the text viewer, be sure to click download to read! ( Featured by $lightningmonkey )
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~Mithrilmail Feb 15, 2012
Eerily provocative in the fashion of the original "Matrix" revelation the "we are all batteries" or the "Soylent green is PEOPLE". Quite thought provoking!

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`apocathary Feb 16, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Thanks mate! I find it difficult to get that twist working, so it's good that it did in your case! (:

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~dw817 Feb 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This is intriguing ! And the first PDF I have come across in DA.
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I, too, was uncomfortable with the limitations of DA's own text editor so I did used this method: [link]

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`apocathary Feb 16, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Aye, it certainly works! (:

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~dw817 Feb 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Yes, but it makes it hard to do a text search because it's an image.

In a way that's good because it protects my work from being copied easily. But in another, it makes it difficult to appear on cellphones and the like because of it's fixed image size.

I - tried to make a PDF originally and didn't have much success with it. It came out too blurry.

What software did you use to make yours ?

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`apocathary Feb 18, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I couldn't tell you, I'm afraid. I think maybe it was just Google Docs? You have an option to export from .pdf there. Or it may well have been Word, which I believe has a similar function. I use a lot of different computers, so it's sometimes hard to remember these things ;P.

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~ZoakoTHEgreat Feb 14, 2012  Student Writer
Fantastico!
Really I'm thrilled
Grim imagery
and even a few small words
that were new to me (akimbo
was one)

And I LOVE abrupt ending like that
In this kinda story

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`apocathary Feb 16, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Thank you! I'm glad you were able to learn something as well, I love discovering new words too. (:

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*Lit-Twitter Feb 14, 2012
Chirp, congrats on the DD, it's been twittered. [link] :)

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`apocathary Feb 14, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Cheers bro! :D

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