Tag: short stories
member name: La Lady Lisa Westerfield
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September 08, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
So many things to see, so little time. My doctor informs me that I have less than a year to live, four months of good health before I am most assuredly bedridden. I walk around Italy drinking . . .
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August 21, 2006 12:23 AM EDT --
I had been told that longevity runs in my family but I didn't believe it. Although my father lived into his late seventies, most of my relatives surrendered their lives much earlier to the usual . . .
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September 14, 2006 03:51 AM EDT --
It came over the horizon on the very day my father had predicted. Though he was a Priest valued for his gift of prophecy, he was only partially right about the foreigners. Because of what he . . .
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July 20, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
I have spare moments left and yet these precious few seconds will be the only time I have ever been truly free. I breathe the stale air into . . .
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July 24, 2006 11:15 PM EDT --
Marybelle Wilson always wanted her fifteen minutes of fame but now as she talked to the perky blond reporter (whose made up face looked like it covered a bad complexion) she wished she didn't have . . .
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August 04, 2006 05:25 PM EDT --
Just when did people start to hate clowns? At what point did these beloved symbols of childhood and mirth morph into objects of disdain…and why?
I sit in front of my vanity mirror and look . . .
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April 02, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
He wouldn't have done it, no he wouldn't have , except for the voice that drifted into the exercise room where he, their father, was doing twenty minutes on the treadmill. "Hello . . .
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August 27, 2007 06:27 PM EDT --
I watch the documentary crew set up the lights. Although this is my house, and has been for the last thirty odd years, I remain in the background observing from the shadows. My impulse . . .
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January 12, 2007 09:37 PM EST --
Today I turn eighteen. Although I am the youngest in my family, composed of five girls no less, I have managed to be the first married and the first to produce a son (something my parents were unable . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
Happily, it was a sunny Saturday morning after a workweek filled with rain. Casually the wife made their coffee as the husband leisurely went outside to pick up the paper from the front steps. . . .
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July 19, 2006 04:08 PM EDT --
I am his mother, yet I barely know him. He was taken from me immediately after birth and was nursed by another. He is golden, my boy – the poetic definition of beauty. Most honor . . .
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November 14, 2007 12:54 PM EST --
Cue music. Start montage of different Scrappy-Doo moments. Begin narrator’s voiceover.
“Scrappy-Doo’s story began in a charity ward at St. . . .
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November 16, 2007 05:43 PM EST --
Not everyone can claim a Thanksgiving tromping through a forest of turning leaves off to grandmother’s house. Most of us are stuck eating dinners in confined spaces on paper tablecloths . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:24 PM EST --
Some people live in an enchanted world, I have long concluded that I do not and most likely never will. I'm a single mother of three children and I manage a state run nursing home in rural Kansas. . . .
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September 14, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
Holy Golightly, where have some of my articles disappeared to? What great insult did some of them create that caused them to disappear if viewed by a reader not signed in? Such villainy was . . .
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September 19, 2007 05:13 PM EDT --
It was a last minute decision - a sunny afternoon, a bead convention on the other side of the city, and a new passion to create jewelry. Two and a half hours later I get into my car and notice the . . .
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May 11, 2007 02:58 PM EDT --
I don’t expect him to understand. Why should he understand when no one else ever has? He scoffs, “It’s 89 degrees and you are dressed like it is 30 below!” What . . .
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May 15, 2007 08:47 PM EDT --
Do you have an article in want of comments? Is it a poem of some length? Perhaps you penned a recipe with no exotic ingredients? How about a book review on a book no one will ever read . . .
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January 17, 2007 04:40 PM EST --
Don’t let anyone tell you differently, there is a proper way of revealing to someone that their dog is dead and an improper way. In retrospect, I might rethink asking my sister if she remembered . . .
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July 05, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
A lot has happened since we last spoke. To start off, you may already be aware that my toe saga was featured on ’60 Minutes.’ I was surprised to find how so many were moved to hear . . .
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