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Elliot Wilner

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Street Crime: Memories of LIfe on Twenty-Eighth Street

Weekly Contest #354

STREET CRIME: MEMORIES OF LIFE ON 28th STREET 1994 words In the 1940’s, when I was a young boy, 28th Street Northwest was a nondescript street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of the District of Columbia, located about a half mile west of the National Zoo. Only two blocks in length, with just a single lane for one-way traffic and a curbside lane for parking, it was certainly a nondescript street in a nondescript neighborhood, but for us children that street was our playground and the center of our world. There was not a real playground ...

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When the Humor was Done and Gone

Weekly Contest #309

Elliot Wilner is a retired neurologist, living in Bethesda, MD. In retirement, he has enjoyed, with his wife’s indulgence, a long-deferred dalliance with creative writing. He can be reached at 301-320-2478 or ecwilner@verizon.net When the Humor Was Done and Gone: A Memoir 2633 words The brie and the hummus, with an assortment of crackers, were already arranged on the coffee table, flanked by a couple of bottles of Chianti. Looking out my living room window, I see two cars coming up the driveway, and then I spot two more cars that have just...

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When the Humor was Done and Gone

Elliot Wilner is a retired neurologist, living in Bethesda, MD. In retirement, he has enjoyed, with his wife’s indulgence, a long-deferred dalliance with creative writing. He can be reached at 301-320-2478 or ecwilner@verizon.net When the Humor Was Done and Gone: A Memoir 2633 words The brie and the humus, with an assortment of crackers, were already arranged on the coffee table, flanked by a couple of bottles of Chianti. Looking out my living room window, I see two cars coming up the driveway, and then I spot two more cars that have jus...

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Anton Dvorak: Beloved Composer and Matchmaker

ANTON DVORAK: BELOVED COMPOSER and MATCHMAKER 2156 words Elliot Wilner ecwilner@verizon.net Dozens of young adults, most of them Scandinavian tourists, were happily chattering in the lobby of Eilat’s Hotel Snapir soon after sunset, after having spent another toasty day on the beach. The lobby was uncomfortably warm, maybe due to the heat that radiated from the tourists’ sunburned skins. Passing through the lobby, I opened the French doors at an exit that gave access to the hotel’s veranda, where I looked about for a vacant chair. There we...

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Trekking Up the Great White Way

Trekking Up the Great White Way 2998 words ****************************** A telephone rang and kept ringing. Where was that telephone? I opened my eyes, looked to my right and saw a telephone a few feet away, resting on a nightstand. Whose telephone was that? Where did that nightstand come from? Where was I? Oh, I was in a bed. I guess I should answer that call, shouldn’t I? I reached for the telephone receiver, pulling it from the cradle but clumsily dropping it to the floor; then I grabbed the cord and yanked the receiver up onto the be...

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Viva Jose Andres

VIVA JOSE ANDRES 1,233 words Would you like to see Jose Andres elected as our next President? Or can’t you express an opinion, because you don’t know anything about Jose Andres? In either case, it might interest you to know that a couple of years ago I attended a World Series baseball game at which a plebiscite was held -- by voice vote – that enabled the spectators to express a preference for either Jose Andres or Donald Trump. And Jose Andres won going away. As it so happens, Jose Andres for su...

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