Tag: short story
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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July 06, 2006 07:13 AM EDT --
I heard he finally got what was coming to him. It took long enough if you ask me. Some of the others said he took precautions so grave robbers wouldn't steal his body. Poured cement . . .
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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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June 21, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
Take it from me, you should think twice before you claim a body part is yours when you know damn well that it isn't. About a month ago I lost a toe. It wasn't a major toe, so it took . . .
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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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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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December 13, 2006 08:41 PM EST --
If you can’t afford to have your lips plumped with silicone, or whatever they pump lips with to surgically enhance them, there are now several products on the market that will do it for you. . . .
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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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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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July 05, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
Take it from me, you should think twice before you claim a body part is yours when you know damn well that it isn’t. About a week ago I lost a toe. It wasn’t a major toe, so it . . .
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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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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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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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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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August 12, 2007 10:17 PM EDT --
I have finally gotten the call I have been expecting. Mercifully, it was to the point, “We are not renewing your contract.”
Of course, I would be lying if I did not confess that . . .
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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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February 14, 2007 12:44 AM EST --
It was the box in the last closet emptied on the last day before everything had to be out. Grandma had been dead for six months and nothing, thus far, had proven to be out of the ordinary. . . .
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