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When the front door had quietly closed behind his daughter, Mr. Pillsbury moved over to the living room window and stared out for a couple of minutes. Those red roses that he had planted last month along the front of his home had died yet the New Hampshire sun laid nakedly across the withered garden in the same way that he had always remembered. He went back into...

I knew darn well about wild apples twice even before I had tasted any. The very first time was when in our Sunday school class at the First Presbyterian Church located on 16 Leon Sullivan Way when we all talked after class about having an apple pie fundraising event to purchase updated Hymnals. My dear old dad just hunched his shoulders and chuckled without making ...

The Santa Fe River bed was nearly empty but even so Javier knew it was going to rain. Alfredo, who was now used to conversing both in English and in Spanish interchangeably at the same time with his step-son, pointed the kid's attention to the dark July 4th's overhead clouds that had sinisterly rolled up from nearby Texas. They were escorted by the occasional...

Eighteen year old Tom Price, who had graduated from Jefferson City High School in May of 2015 was now an involuntary automotive repair apprentice, who couldn't go to sleep the night before Father's Day in 2016. He patiently waited until the vocational instructors and their assistants had gone out on their mandatory union contractual one hour lunch break to procure...

Mildred Harris glanced out of the front living room window of their old Fox Farm home. The outlook was cold and dreary. The elevation in this part of Cheyenne was around 6,062 feet. All the nearby mountains, fields, and forests laid completely naked against the purity of the recent snowfall. She couldn't even see her closest neighbors' house anymore because of the ...

The day's scheduled work goals were finally accomplished and all went well. I felt confident that we would meet old man Stoppel's deadline completely. Sparrow Hospital had received approval to build a $2.5 million dollar helipad at their downtown Lansing hospital. This new addition was expected to greatly increase helicoptered patient transport to their older medical facility...

Near the Montgomery City Hall there is a heavily wooded Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, which towards the beginning of December, their trees start to shed themselves, and as a rule of thumb the leaves float northeasterly downwards until around mid-January. Every day I pass by...

It was still light outside in South Dakota yet inside this mansion with the heavy curtains drawn the lit lamp on the wooden nightstand sent out a soft glow in the master bedroom with its deep shadows. James Mehlhoff sat in the largest of these dancing shadows. Their magical spells had somehow overpowered him but he didn't even care anymore. His near invisibility...

Visitors love Elkhorn Creek for its seventeen miles of natural beauty and also for its great fishing. Paddlers find it perfect for canoeing and kayaking. Yet the main stem of the creek is not suitable for johnboats. Crayfish and Eastern Box Turtles are kings of this creek. Ruins of the Steadmantown Paper Mill which printed money for the Confederate government during the U.S. Civil War...

Mr. James D. Doty closed and locked his front door on his condo behind him before skipping down the front steps into the bright September morning, with a strong feeling that all was well in the world. He knew that he had no doubt chose the perfect tie which matched this perfect sunny day and, after all, wasn't this old planet such a beautiful place to live? In spite of ...

Memorial Day 2016 was drawing nearer. And Mark H. Gehan was in a worried mood. It started, or so it seemed, from the second when at the Keillors' he was asked, "Uh, where are you going to spend your upcoming three day weekend?" Gehan for some strange reason did not answer. The hostess, a thin far-sighted lady, persisted, "Come hangout with us."

It started to rain at around eight-thirty in the evening and with it came strong winds that so often deceives the common misperceptions of Little Rock having only mild winters. Kiplinger magazine named it as the number one place to live among metropolitan areas under one million people in July of 2013. But not for Pratt. Nearly

It just so happened that after Goldstein had been hired for the job, which he accidentally stumbled into this way. Lucas, the fisheries' Senior Hiring Agent at the time, thought heck with it, he had better give this poor man a job. He would have to fake it and act sincere. This fellow...

Karen was one of those natural beauties, born, ironically, into a family of State employees. She had no big dowry, no great ambitions, and, thus, no real opportunities to marry a rich man. So she allowed herself instead to marry a minimum wage earning...

Whenever I'm eating my chicken nuggets I count them one at a time. I lie to myself like I do to everyone else that I've had better days. I pat myself on the shoulders, gently, of course, because I'm still off on approved State Workers' Compensation from my State job with the Griffin Graham Correctional Institution as a Law Librarian. My old body is breaking down on me ...

A paper thin wall has always separated us. But today has now come for this very same wall to unite us. It was January 31st and the outside temperature had dropped to below freezing here in Phoenix. There was even a thin layer of graupel, although it was widely believed to

Paula was an uneducated woman only because she was illiterate. She didn't even know how to write her own name. Paula's husband, was an important person in the Mandan Native American tribe. Although he once was also a simpleton, but fifty-seven years of right living in Bismarck changed all of that. Not only did Saint Mary's Grade School taught him how to ...

The Cooper's hawk easily flew to the top of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains situated just outside Atlanta and then climbed in clockwise circles to the awaiting puffy clouds. When their breaths of wind passed under his outstretched wings,

Hartford, in February 2016. Winter. Lots of snow on this New England Rising Star's ground, a bit less by the frozen Connecticut River, except for the occasional drifts piling up against the small Amish communities' barns and wooden fences. It had to be...

A woman was driving along a lonely country road at night. She braked hard, quickly turned her car around and drove back the way she came after having just read at a possible very profitable Twitter posting...