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IRON NODER XVIII


Negligence is the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolutions. What nature made for use, for strength, and ornament, neglect alone converts to trouble, weakness, and deformity.

--Owen Feltham (1602-1668), Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political (1623)

Time to listen to good ol' Owen, set aside the smartphone, and start spinning up some IRON NODES!!! That's right: it's time for the 18th annual edition of...THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE!

Many hundreds have tried. Mere tens have succeeded. Do you think you have what it takes to enter the hallowed HALL OF THE IRON?

All you need do is...write at least 30 things worth reading in 30 days.

Why do we do it? For the HONOR! For the GLORY! But most of all, for the REWARDS!!!

The rewards are as follows:

American horror novel, written by Scott Thomas and published by Inkshares, Inc. in 2017. 

Out in the wilds of rural Kansas, there's an old house on the banks of desolate Kill Creek known as the Finch House. It's a house that's been wracked by decades of violence and murder and madness. Its first owners were killed by a racist gang. Its most recent, Rachel and Rebecca Finch, elderly twin spinsters, spent their lives locked away inside the old house. Stories piled atop

I booked a one-night stay at a hostel in the city I moved away from. Check-in time is 15:00 on Monday. I need to get away from here. I need to stop obsessing over someone else's problem and focus on my own shit. I've been too scared to go back. I have unfinished business that I need to deal with, and I can't put it off any longer. I need to remind myself that I didn't run away. I left because I had to, and even though my final memories of the city were painful, that doesn't mean that I should just

News for Noders

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIIIth Iron Noder in November!



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August 4: Happy birthday avalyn!

August 6: 広島

August 9: 長崎

August 27: Happy birthday Bitriot!

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July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

July 26: Happy birthday teleny!


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June 3: Saint kevin's Day.

June 4: Aesop's Birthday.

June 11: TerribleAspect's birthday!

June 13: Serjeant's Muse's birthday!

June 16: Bloomsday.

June 19: Juneteenth.

June 20: Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) and winter solstice (southern hemisphere).

June 21: nicolasstag's birthday!

June 23: AdamTheDewott's birthday!

June 23: weroland's birthday!

June 28: Tau Day.


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April 1: By popular demand, March has been redacted.

April 10: Happy birthday, nuggets!

April 12: Yuri's Night

April 22: Happy Earth Day, fellow earthlings!

April 23: Saint George's Day.

April 24: Happy birthday, Rancid_Pickle!

April 30: Walpurgis Night.

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