I am still haunted by the memory of how it all began, long before the citys skyline was anything but a smudge on the horizon. Yeold,...
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It was said that he was brighter than any lantern. Miss, do you agree? a man’s voice, pleading, sounded through the receiver. Very well, let us...
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Oh, that grandmothershe got married and upset her children! On weekends, Alice, as usual, drives out to her mothers cottage....
It was many years ago now, but I remember those nights as clear as the moonlight that crept through our...
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INSTEAD OF WINGS, A BOOMERANG BEHIND MY BACK Ill make you all wish youd never been born! Just you wait!...
I boarded the train headed to my parents house, settling into my seat in a second-class carriage. My ticket placed...
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