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A Special Birthday Present


by storyteller44
Apr 08, 2011

Myself and two associates, Bob and Debbie, made a trip to Chicago from Ohio to make a presentation to one of our major accounts. The presentation went well and was completed in a timely manner. Bob suggested that we leave right away to airport to...

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Pride Goeth before my Fall


by balefulregards
Apr 06, 2011

 And now, at the start of spring, I give you a summer story.

 

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Yardwork


by Facts for Life
Apr 01, 2011

  This is a true story.

It happened two days after my father died while I sat next to him on his Hopsice bed, doing nothing in a situation where my training was screaming for me to do something....

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A Morality Tale


by balefulregards
Mar 21, 2011

 The story I am about to relate has no basis in truth. It is an entirely made up tale. No one in this saga lives on earth. I am quite literally pulling this story out of my ass. Any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental...

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Reginald's Death


by bluebed
Mar 18, 2011

 On a damp rainy evening of Octombre 16th 1984 Reginald Nib found himself smothered under an avalanche of condolatory letters, each briefly but passionately touching upon the subject of his untimely death.

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Government powers handed to army as Hosni Mubarak resigns


by keira
Mar 16, 2011

The news that Hosni Mubarak resigns his post was greeted with jubilation from thousands of people across Egypt. Mubarak left Cairo for the family home in Sharm el-Sheikh, which is located on the Red Sea in the Sinai Peninsula. Vice President Omar...

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Make them mine again


by kaylapoopie
Mar 16, 2011

I want to make your arms mine again.
With your arms around me,
you kept me warm and I am finally
home.

She was homeless and wanted your arms
as her own.
She plotted and manipulated,
your arms became...

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BAKERY '77


by Nick Cozza
Mar 16, 2011

Man it was fucking hot! 

It was March 1977 in New Jersey, and what was worse I was back inside the good old Pathway Bakery down on Broad Street In Newark. I had finally given up hope, thinking that I was destined for...

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Unforgettable New York Trip


by YaeEun Cho
Mar 14, 2011

           Last Christmas, I went to New York for the first time. New York was one of the cities that I had really wanted to visit before I graduate from my university. Whenever I watched several...

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Michael


by gregjones61
Mar 08, 2011

Fag! Queer! Fruit! These words were thrown around a great deal in Birmingham, Alabama elementary schools and high schools to attack someone’s masculinity. I might have been guilty of it myself, back then, during the late 70's. At one...

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The Swing


by gregjones61
Mar 08, 2011

Looking out through mother's back porch sliding glass door I can see out over the woods separating our backyard and the backyard of the houses on the next street, in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb. A good two hundred yards of dense wooded area...

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Baby Love


by Deborah Pintonelli
Mar 08, 2011

 Deborah Pintonelli

pintonelli@rcn.com

 

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How I Started Smoking (And Why I'll Never Quit)


by Wyl Villacrez
Mar 07, 2011
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No one succeeds


by Nathan Sterner
Mar 03, 2011

This is a story about a lie.

And why you shouldn't tell a lie to the physician's assistant at your local clinic.

Because no one succeeds when a CAT scan is involved.

(with apologies to the Beach Boys) 

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My Insides


by kaylapoopie
Mar 03, 2011

My anxiety is dug out by you and you alone.

I told you not to dig, but you continued to excavate.

You shifted the blame on me, and proclaimed that

I was crazy.

You were the one

who shatter my insides, and you...