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Weekly Contest #25
Jimmy Runs-Like-The-Wind lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota, just north of the Nebraska border. He, like many of his people, lived in very poor conditions. He lived with his grandmother, grandfather, and eight cousins, in a single wide mobile home. He didn’t know who his father was, and his mother stayed drunk or high all of the time, trying to escape the hard life that she knew on the reservation. This kind of life was really hard on him, but it was all he knew. He had gotten his name because he was an incr...
Weekly Contest #16
It was the last week in May. The spring carnival was in town, and Darren and his friends, Ty and Chris, were going. They were excited. The town’s spring carnival was one of the most fun events of the year, and it happened right before school let out for the summer. There would be food, games, prizes, good music, and fun rides. Soon, Darren was in the car with his mom and dad, and on the way to pick up his friends. Darren and his friends were the undersized, over-intelligent, lower classmen version of the “nerd patrol”. They were at the end ...
Love at first sight does exist. I know, because it happened to me. This is the true story of how I met my wife. It was late June of 1987. I was enjoying the summer between my junior and senior years of high school. The day started out normally enough. I went to my job at the golf course, where I worked as a landscaper. I worked from 5 am until about noon, cutting grass. I then went home, ate lunch, and then went to the gym. I trained for about an hour or so, then went to get something to eat. After that, I came home, washed my truck, and we...
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