Tag: short story
member name: La Lady Lisa Westerfield
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May 29, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
I hate my family. I hate their noise. I hate their false generosity. Most of all I hate the way their beady eyes stare when waiting to see if I still have the strength to blow . . .
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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 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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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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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 29, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
New York – circa 1977. There are moments in history that act as postcards from one era to another - 'I wish you were here.' Nothing major happens: no colossal wars that redefine . . .
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November 23, 2009 05:20 PM EST --
Monday is the saddest day of the week, no doubt. It is positively the worst day to say goodbye to a trusted and true friend. Yet, what is one to do? Sometimes a companion cannot be . . .
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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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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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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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January 23, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
They met in the Green Room of the 'Jerry Springer Show.' He was there because he was stealing clothes from his mother's closet to cross-dress, which wouldn't have been . . .
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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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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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August 02, 2009 11:26 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 . . .
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May 17, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
I am the only member of my family who belongs to the Japanese American Heritage Foundation. I am proud that my maternal great-grandparents emigrated from Japan and made a life here out of nothing. . . .
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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 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 12, 2009 09:13 PM EDT --
I have a confession. A deep dark shameful confession that no native Missourian with an appreciation for the environment should ever confess - I hate canoeing.
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