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Boris Schwetz

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His Uncle

Weekly Contest #95

When Ulysses was in the sixth grade at ten years, he was popular with the students and teachers at the William Taft Grammar School. He was smart, outgoing, and friendly. A charmer, he had taught himself several foreign languages and would talk to the house cleaning staff in Spanish. He spoke only French to the French teacher. Most of the kids wanted to sit with him at lunchtime. In November, his mother was at a parent-teacher meeting. Ulysses teacher, Miss Regina Wilson, said, “Mrs. Jasper, Ulysses is by far the smartest student I have, bu...

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Weekly Contest #16

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR At 1:33 a.m. on a cold January night, two members of the Red Dragons Motorcycle gang drove up and parked their Harleys in front of The Green Beaver Bar. In the bar window, facing the street, there was a small neon green light, that was shaped to spell open. It blinked continuously on and off. The bar owner told aspiring bar maids that the neon light gave the bar a Broadway flair. It was a sleazy run down bar on the city limits of Fremont, CA. The two men walked across the old dirty dark wooden floor, scattered wi...

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Earliest Recollections

Weekly Contest #14

Earliest Recollections I got here too quick. I was born a premature baby. At birth I weighed less than five pounds. After I got here I planed to stay skinny because I did not like eating, it took time away from playing and being mischievous. To me this was more important than eating green stuff that tasted awful. My mother and my mammy would secure me in my highchair each day, three times a day. One would stand over me with a flyswatter and the other with a spoon containing smashed Brussel spots. When I would cry, my mouth would open and i...

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Pauli

PAULI Pauli Alertari aka" Ronson" was five feet seven inches tall and weighed three hundred and ten pounds. He had with slick black hair. He sprayed expensive colognes on himself. He still stunk ten minutes after his shower. His wife hated him and charged him for sex. His children disliked him. His mistress had chronic allergies and had no sense of smell. His bosses tolerated him because he got his bad debt collections accomplished. He did not break kneecaps with a baseball bat. He carried a can of Ronson lighter fluid with him at all times...

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