Not my usual short post. Why? When I first started this blog, my intention was to write [50] fifty short stories, and drum roll please, [um, that's a horn. Never mind], and I have completed my intent. [What's that? No speech, please we beg you] .What a tough crowd. First I want to thank God [...]
Archive for April, 2010
20 Apr
Dream Reality
[Nicolas Tournier - Le Concert] What are your dreams that you want to come true? Do you think they can? In the story below, Play On, a teenager helping to clean out an old warehouse finds an old notebook behind a crate. What is written inside sends her in search of some things. Live on. [...]
20 Apr
Thank Four (the end)
Four But that she did not forget. She asked her parents what it was, what it meant. They did not know. She searched for it online, and she found the answer. Art is long, life is short. Part of her curiosity was satisfied; the other part would be harder to pleased. She did not know [...]
20 Apr
Thank Three
Three She sat in a corner after she got the book out of her bag, and with her legs crossed in front of her, opened it but quickly closed it back. Dust. She coughed after it was awakened as if the wind told it to wake up. She fanned it away and opened the book [...]
19 Apr
Thank Two
Two The something that she pulled out was an old notebook. Her sweeping partner did not care about it, so the finder put it in her knapsack and continued cleaning. A lunch break, more cleaning and then she went home. She threw her bag on her bed, forgetting about the book she found. Took a [...]
19 Apr
Thank One
One She was helping to clean out the old warehouse in her neighborhood. They were going to fix it up so the children who lived there could have a place to come to after school and on the weekends. With a broom in her hand, she was sweeping real hard in an attempt to brush [...]
16 Apr
Unchanged of nature
[Philippe de Champaigne - Saint Augustine] Is it hard for some bad people to change their ways? In the story below, Heart Transplant, a man undergoes surgery to be good, only to have it fail. What shape or make who we are, our personalities? So until the next story . . . The disciples had [...]
16 Apr
Break Three (the end)
Three “Can you believe he’s going to raise the rent on those people,” the chauffeur said to the gardener after putting the limo back in the garage. “Don’t let him hear you.” “How can a man be so–” “Stop talking.” “Why? There’s no one here except you and me. You think he’s listening? I don’t [...]
15 Apr
Break Two
Two A few hours after that conversation, he was lying on an operating table receiving a heart transplant. A healthy, cruel heart for a healthy good heart. That man who unknowingly helped, was never seen again. It took awhile for him to recover, but once he did, he wanted to put it into practice. The [...]
15 Apr
Break One
One He watched him for months and got all the information he could about him. Everything had to be compatible before he did what he was going to do. He was a man cruel to the bone–wicked as the devil in physical form. Before that thought ever entered his mind, one day that man he [...]
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