By Tim Martin

“Why ask me? He must know people better than me.” This was the first time I had met Miriam. “I haven’t even spoken to him as a grown up, are you sure I’m the right person to go?” I guess she had her reasons but her answer is unexpected. “Well, he talks of you constantly I think you kind of inspired him to be who he is, No?” This kind of threw me; I always thought it were the other way around.

We had been very good friends. But then that was way back when and well before he completed any of his known work. We knew each other at school, out of contact for some time yet once inseparable. Back then I sort of knew he would be big, though not perhaps his grand fame. I can’t remember him ever being interested in such things. We had had other hobbies; adventures around the forests and countryside that made up the landscape near the school or perhaps after lights out raids to the kitchen store. (more…)

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By Dennis Klein

The wind blew hard and cold across the flat prairie.  Their stout log house stood up to the wind, but was unable to stop the drafts that that seeped into every crack and seam .  The blazing fire in the kitchen kept a small area marginally warm, but if one moved a small distance away from the flames, the cold took over and made you stiff and uncomfortable.  During the short, sweltering summers, you forgot about the cold because you were miserable from the heat, but a few months later, you were buried again in ice and snow.

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The re-opening of the college was great, especially for the final year students. They were ringing and riding about the college campus in a happy mood. It was really hurting that they had only one year left in college to enjoy at most. It has been wonderful all the four year of their bachelor degree, especially with Mike and Emily as their classmates. Time has just flown in a super fast way leaving them now only with memories of the past and one more year to add up to the memory.

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by: Bobbie J. Laughman

“It’s like looking in a time-travel mirror. She looks exactly like me. Well, except for the part about her being a girl. If I’d been born a girl, I would have looked just like that.”

Kimberly was listening to her temporary table companion sputtering in astonishment, but still kept her smiling eyes on her freckle-faced daughter, who was taking charge of the restaurant’s play area, directing the other children in a game, whether they wanted to play along or not.

Unable to take his own eyes off the child, Stephan had to go with the obvious question, knowing the impossibility of what he was asking.
“Is she mine?”

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Story by – Story Man

Mallory sat on her bed, staring out at the blowing palm trees, a smile crept on her face.  Today would be one year since her entire life had changed.  A black car pulled up the driveway and Mallory finished buttoning her blouse and as she picked up a card off the nightstand she ran down the stairs to the front door.  The envelope read, “Happy 1 Year My Love”.

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by: Kelly Fitzgerald

Katie is a married woman of fourteen years. She and her husband have three beautiful children. Something feels missing in Katie’s life. She cannot quite pinpoint it, but nevertheless it is still there.

Katie and her husband’s children are still under the age of five so they are not in school. At 1:00 p.m. each day of the week the three children fall asleep for their nap. Katie gets a little housework done and then decides to chat on her computer for something to do. Katie meets all sorts of people from around the world. She befriends a guy who is single, living in another country with his girlfriend and her three children. This guy is handsome, has a great job in an office and gets on his computer to goof around and even shows his face on his webcam. Katie cannot believe he can do this at work! Once she gets to know him she worries that he will get into trouble with the boss.

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