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Miscellaneous Stories
The explosion rocked the church. Bodies. Blood. Chaos.
On the ground lay a two year old boy. The mother scooped up the lifeless body and rocked it in her arms. Looking up, she noticed a hole in the ceiling. A line of smoke lifted into the blue sky. Why? she thought. How could you let this happen?
I AM HERE. I AM BESIDE YOU.
She didn't hear. She questioned.
A...
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This last week up a mountain. Confounded Letter 1
The experimental jet screamed into the clouds across the mountains. I painted you into the landscape from memory From on high I watched the ghost of a friend walk across the end of the silvered loch I climbed the black crag in the massacre glen and I did not feel like coming down.
I lay in the sculpted snow on the crag summit and...
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THE CUL-DE-SAC
The new VW Dual cab Ute was impressive. Nine hundred a month for four years, it would want to impress?"
The drive into Mittagong was as much about reassuring my self that I'd spent wisely as it was for the Fish and Chips.
It was the start of the ‘long...
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You know, it's kinda cool being an angel in heaven. I don't know why they let me in, though, after what I did. Maybe God or Jesus took pity on me. I dunno. I like being my two children's guardian angel. Now I see everything they do, which sometimes is good and sometimes not. The girls, Mandy and Tara, were so sad. It crushes me to see them cry about their dead father. I try to tell them it's...
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Jackie placed her forehead into her door rather harsh. She had thought to herself on how sexist they were. But she began to think about that. She did see a number of men applying. But barely any picking up there checks as she came to think about it. There were mostly women up at the temp office picking up there checks. But wait, that can't just be, that's discrimination,...
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Walking the streets and not going home after work has become a regular routine for me lately; and I always seem to find myself standing at the front door of this Smokey roach infested shit hole of a bar. Perhaps this place is slowly killing me, who cares, certainly not me. But if I look on the bright side maybe this...
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The sun rose serenely over the pond, changing the colors on Nature's canvas first purple, then red, then orange. Scott relished the time when the sky changed colors. Knowing that nature was subject to beautiful changes comforted his mind while living in a dark, forlorn world. A cool breeze brushed his face, as if Nature, knowing his reverent thoughts, lovingly caressed him.
Taking a last...
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Miscellaneous Stories
It was exactly two months prior the court hearing when Carrie found her husband on the floor naked and unconscious. George was in an awkward position suggesting that he fell on the spot. His right knee was flexed and his left was twisted outward and extended. His head turned to the side while his shoulders dropped the opposite. The fact that he was in unlikely position, it didn't...
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Sitting in his car a half block from where Jeremy was keeping Mandy hostage, Kenny sat with his hands on the steering wheel holding it so tightly that his knuckles were white and he was beginning to lose feeling at his fingertips. His thoughts were racing a mile a minute trying to figure out how he managed to not notice what Jeremy really was.
Nine months ago Mandy was a normal 19 year...
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As I was driving home, I pulled off the interstate and coasted down the off-ramp. I was almost home. With my mind still humming from the sounds of worklife, I longed for the comfortable couch that awaited my arrival. My tired bones screamed for rest! I stopped at the traffic light and casually glanced out the window. Standing at the end of the off-ramp was a homeless man with a cardboard...
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Part 1 1918
David Ratcliffe's thoughts were always intangible. A mix of dreams and wishes so out of tune for an apparently practical man. As he walked home from his job down the pit, from the pub or as he sat ramrod straight in his favourite and only armchair reading the local newspaper.
Throughout his adult life the most common thought had been when can I have...
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Miscellaneous Stories
Sleep. I just need sleep.
So goddamn tired. Tonight was the first time I saw my bed before 3am in almost a month. But no sooner do I get my head on the pillow. The phone.
You have to get down here. There's something you should see.
Goddamn.
I lay in my bed for a moment, lying to...
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Miscellaneous Stories
What a bad day means to you will mean something completely different to somebody else. Let me tell you about a bad day I had some years back. I have to warn you though, no one dies, but no one stays the same either.
I happened to have the pleasure of being a lucky young man personally picked by Uncle Sam himself to attend his tropical paradise in Southeast Asia around 1966 to 1969. My...
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The older supervisor was walking inside the factory, with a cigarette in his hand, just rooting around and letting the mind flow. But a sudden ruckus coming from the break room had erupted and caught his attention. He quickly walked to the break room, with hearing Rob scream something, followed by a thump. Then Jackie screaming Rob's name, along with 'please stop.' This made the...
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Lightning flashed. The lights flickered within the convenient store. Night was approaching quickly with the help of the dark storm clouds. Cynthia was in for a long night. She sighed as she watched the rain begin to fall. Puddles quickly gathered as the heavenly dam broke and torrents of rain fell to the earth. Thunder boomed in the distance. The bell above the entrance rang as someone entered...
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the bed, she wondered how she had gotten to this point. She was alone. But she knew that wouldn't last for long. Another one would walk up the stairs in a little bit and she would be forced to do those things with those men again. Jeremy was downstairs like always holding court while she was up here doing unspeakable things. How could he say he...
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Pale and ignorant, he walked through the town. Through the gradually building, awful rush of people. Into the shopping arcade. Into the noise and into the neon.
It reminded him of nothing so much as gulls clamouring on a rubbish tip
Instinctively, of course he disliked it. It was partly claustrophobia. But then again he disliked most things this time in the morning and he...
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When it rained the raindrops reflected, enlarged on the wall behind my bed.
A large street lamp outside, over the ring road ensured that the room was almost always blue. Even during the daylight hours because the clock in the lamp was always broken. The room was always cold.
One square waffle of the ancient and dangerous gas fire worked. The others hissed menacingly....
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"Where are they?" Leslie asked. Evalyn shrugged her shoulders and pulled out her phone.
"Hold up, I'll call," she said. Leslie slumped in the passanger's seat. The two young girls were sitting in the bowling alley parking lot. Leslie blew a piece of hair out of her face.
"Hey, where are you guys? What? How could you be lost? Where are you?" Evalyn...
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She sat still for a few minutes more thinking about what to do next while she watched him chew his food like there was nothing wrong here at all. Like it was just another normal day. Yeah, there hadn't been a normal day for her since she met that asshole of an ex-husband of hers. Charlie wanted her dead, she knew that. It didn't surprise her either. He beat her every day for the 8...
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