Tag: short story
member name: William Dotani
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July 06, 2007 05:39 AM EDT --
The captian of the police force, Andy G., wasn't all that concerned about Elsie's escape, or Wilma sitting on her driveway talking to ants, so he went to Floyd, the town's barber to get a haircut. . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:24 PM EST --
I guess you might say I was a drifter. After my tour of overseas Army duty, I went back to my old neighborhood, but things had changed. My first day back should have certainly been a clue. There was no . . .
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March 17, 2008 12:38 PM EDT --
You'd think I'd be happy to finally be home, but the silence was uncomfortable. I sat down at the kitchen table in sort of a daze. A siren in the distance brought me to my senses and I noticed . . .
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December 02, 2008 05:26 PM EST --
Most folks in Anderson City said Fall had come early in 1989 and this launched an idea in Jonas Streeb's mind. Jonas was always thinking, reading or writing something down in a brown . . .
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July 03, 2007 04:36 AM EDT --
A cable TV show, 'Future Weapons' shows advances in military weaponry, but some future weapons are so hush hush that I fear I may be jeopardizing my free sample pack of Cialis by revealing a weapon . . .
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February 10, 2008 03:48 AM EST --
A old dusty typewriter I bought at a yard sale had a half page letter titled 'Pigtail Legend: 1976 USA Olympic Team.' An injured weight lifter discovered Wilma needed no assistance lifting him . . .
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March 07, 2008 02:50 PM EST --
I felt relieved to be home. I was a bit surprised my parent's had put up new awnings and it looked like my dad hadn't mowed the grass for weeks. There were a bunch of newspapers still neatly wrapped . . .
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March 24, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
I stood watching Peggy Sue walk home. Maybe I was a bit too infatuated with her. I had to remind myself she was only 16. There were things to do. I showered, shaved, put on jeans and a T-shirt, then started . . .
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December 03, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
I know this will be hard for you to believe, but Jonas was a clever lad, a clever lad indeed. He built a time travel machine for his sixth grade science project and sadly did not win any of the ribbons, . . .
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January 19, 2009 04:11 PM EST --
John Middleton had seen more than half the world by the time he was 18. No, he wasn't a military kid. John's father was disliked by his father's father-in-law (Jesse Theodore, or JT for . . .
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October 06, 2009 12:46 AM EDT --
Preface: It was quite an adventurous trip during a nap by a small pond filled with a gaggle of geese who seemed to want to do nothing but honk all day. Such a cacophony you’d think them to be . . .
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August 01, 2007 04:21 PM EDT --
Standing outside in the heat, I looked over my notes about Barbara B. I poured over this list, but there wasn't one mention of her first kiss, but there were quite a few theories. This . . .
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December 03, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
As everyone knows, children are impressionable. Little Jonas, just shy of his third birthday, had gotten into mommy's purse and took out the rose colored glasses his mommy wore everywhere. She . . .
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December 23, 2008 10:25 AM EST --
A few years ago at a Christmas party, a man named Harvey was telling everyone about his 'Adventure' vacation. Harvey tossed his muffler over his shoulder, adjusted his spectacles and proceeded . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:11 AM EST --
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The case of the missing consonant may leave some with disbelief, but hear me out please. Just a bit of courtesy, to not scan this story like sand stuck between your toes, . . .
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July 26, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
I'm not sure if it was 1985 or 1986, but I was in California in June or maybe July somewhere south, or maybe east, of San Francisco totally lost and really low on gas. I was driving a rental, . . .
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July 16, 2008 05:32 PM EDT --
A man I had never met had died and left me a house in the middle of nowhere. I drove up north to find this property. Strangely street signs led me to this property. I was amazed to see a stately Victorian . . .
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March 28, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
I almost felt like it was déjà vu. This crazy old lady yakked at me all the way home from the Supermarket. I was so glad to get out of the car to get away from her, but then her son's car . . .
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April 10, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
I did not sleep well and woke up quite early coughing and sneezing and feeling chills come and go throughout my body. I found my mom's old thermometer. I was just a tad over 102. I definitely had . . .
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March 29, 2008 05:58 PM EDT --
It was a nice Spring day with no cloud dandruff in sight, as Bhawana sat watching Sally Fields on TV. Of course she strictly watched Sally Fields only once a month and often wondered if Nuns could fly. . . .
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