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Submitted to Contest #57
Sometimes the best action to take is to take no action at all. Seeing these words engraved on my great-grandfather's tombstone always brings a tear to my eye. He was such a great man. A man I try to emulate. Calvin Do-Nothing Hedding. "Here lies the deceased Calvin Hedding. Has anyone heard of him?" A peppy tour guide is pointing at me and my great-grandfather's tombstone with a ridiculous, forced smile on her face while a group of school age children look around in all the wrong directions while picking their noses, fidgeting wi...
Submitted to Contest #51
“Daddy?” “Yes, son?” “What are stars made of?” A boy with scrapes all over his knees, dirt on his hands, and a chipped tooth stares up at the sky while on the damp grass, eyes reflecting the twinkling stars. An older man with bright, intelligent eyes and immaculate fingernails and meticulously trimmed facial hair turns to look at the boy while stretched out on a blanket. “Hmmm. Before I give my answer, why do you want to know?” The boy refuses to divert his heavenly gaze and, after a long pause, answers, “I don’t know.&nb...
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