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The Long Ride Home

Weekly Contest #345

It’s my second day on this train from Washington D.C. to Springfield Illinois. When we arrive at the depot there, I will serve as a poll bearer for our fallen leader President Abraham Lincoln. We are currently traveling across Ohio and will arrive in Springfield early in the morning. I have seen thousands of people line both sides of the railroad t I sracks to bid him farewell. “Hey kid, are you even old enough to be wearing that uniform?” A soldier with a long gray beard and a white streak on both sides of his head just above his ears. He n...

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Weekly Contest #344

I remember the whole thing as if it was yesterday. While I was standing on the deck of the ship I was assigned to the Martin Alexander, a merchant marine tanker for the U.S. Navy when the USS Elderidge which was a destroyer escort (DE 173) vanished while me and Carl were having a smoke. “What the hell.” Carl’s eyes were open wide as he dropped his smoke into the water. A green mist surrounded the ship and when the mist cleared, the ship had vanished into thin air. “I have no idea.” I gasped. “Well, I sure as hell saw it disappear.” His voic...

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The Coniff Experiment

Weekly Contest #343

Dr. Jonas Coniff was the department head of the Biology Department at Yale University where once been a contender for a Nobel Prize for his work on genetic research. Publishing several articles in The New England Journal of Science and Medicine, Jonas had earned the respect of his peers and students. His fame did not come without his critics however since he was known as a persnickety curmudgeon who lived alone in his apartment overlooking the Quinnipiac River in Fair Haven. It was a scenic view, but a solitary one at that. No one really kn...

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Zane Demmont's Second Chance

Weekly Contest #342

“Next.” The weary looking white bearded man sitting at a very ancient desk said without even looking up. The next person standing in a very long line stepped up to the desk. The weary looking man glanced up at the next person standing in line, “Welcome…Zane Demmont…to Heaven.” “Why am I here?” Zane asked as he looking around. “Why do you think?” The weary looking man folded his hands in front of him, “You have passed from your previous life and have come here for your final judgment.” “So, these are the pearly gates I’ve heard about?” He gl...

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ECT Room

Weekly Contest #341

There is one place in this city, I never want to see again. St. Xavier’s Psychiatric Hospital in Baltimore is a place I promised myself I’d never darken the door ever again. When they closed the facility about ten years ago, I figured I’d make good on that promise.But lately, I’ve been hearing the voices ordering me to go back there. The voices are very persuasive at times. “The nurse will make sure you have your prescriptions ready for you before you leave.” Dr. Fontane told me without looking up from the note he was scribbling in my chart...

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Contessa Leans a Lesson

Weekly Contest #340

Hey, good morning, I’m Benedict Rollings, author of over one hundred children’s books. I have delivered more than my share of happily ever after endings than any other author I know. I don’t wish to brag, but I just can’t help it. So, my agent once asked me, “Ben, how have you come up with so many successful publications?” Well, Ken, I told him, I have been blessed with a very active imagination where I feel as if I have a personal relationship with all of my pro and antagonists. Then he raised an eyebrow and asks, “Has any of your character...

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Jerome Mendleson

Weekly Contest #339

Jerome Mendleson was a renown psychic with an ego as large as he was. One of his proclaimers said, “He really filled a doorway.” Perhaps that was true, but there was no doubt about his psychic talents. “Ah, this coffee is splendid.” He would sit at an outdoor table at the Hawthorn Café for his morning cup of coffee. “I despise tea.” It was rather uncommon for a man of his prestige to make such a proclamation as he was a Londoner through and through. His father, Mr. Waldo Mendleson, a wealthy investor, figured he had done something wrong ra...

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The List

Weekly Contest #338

Manuel Salazar, better known as just plain Manny was a riding in a Yellow Cab through the streets of New York City. He was on his way to LaGuardia Air Port. A few hours after takeoff, he would be returning to Managua, the place of his birth. All Manny can remember is that they took his mother by force in the middle of the night, and he has not seen her since. Buried deep in his memory is her voice crying out to him as they led her away, “Hijo mío, quédate allí y espérame. (My son, stay there and wait for me). He did not know at the time, th...

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Remote Control

Weekly Contest #337

Fast forwarding through some of the video tapes I took over the years of Elizabeth and I shared together as tears flow down my face. All those memories of our lives. Cancer is such an ugly word. I had no way of knowing when I left the hospital that evening four years ago, that would be my farewell to forty years of my marriage to my high school sweetheart. Through the final six months as I watched her suffer, the reality of it all came crashing down on me. Her funeral was surreal to me at the time, but when I came home to an empty house, the...

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Exile in the Wasteland

Weekly Contest #336

He was remanded to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Criminal Insane in Washington D.C. Found guilty of treason after being captured by American soldiers in Italy in 1945, Ezra Pound was translating ancient Chinese poetry when I came to visit him in September 1957. My visit would include a letter signed by some of the most talent literary minds of the time such as Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, E. E. Cummings, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Earnest Hemmingway, and myself, Thomas Sterns Elliot, asking for his immediate release from the hospita...

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Woman With Wings

Weekly Contest #335

I remember the first time I saw her; I was bewitched by the way she entered the room. She was wearing a long coat, unbuttoned revealing a stunning knee-length dress and a light blue blouse. When she flicked her brunette hair to one shoulder, I was in love. But when I saw what was she had hidden beneath her coat, I was struck dumb. My mind was and still is blown. If I tell you about what I saw, you’d probably think I was delusional. Hell, I might even agree with you. Okay, my name is Gunther Garblenheimer, but you can call me Sonny. It’s easi...

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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Weekly Contest #334

My name is Brunhilda and in case that name does not ring a bell, I am one of the two ugly step-sisters from the classic tale called Cinderella. I was promised a happily ever after ending, but I got hoodwinked in the deal. I must admit things have gone downhill for me since she went skipping off with the handsome prince leaving me with no toes on my right foot when I tried to jam my big old foot into that glass slipper. Mom suggested that she cut off my toes so I could fit my foot into that tiny glass slipper. Hey, this is the Grimm Brothers’...

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Escargot and Bourgogne

Weekly Contest #333

Food Critic Andre DeNeuve waited patiently for servicing of Escargots de Bourgogne at a table in Rue de Noir. The gourmet restaurant had just opened a few months ago, but through social media and word of mouth, the establishment had earned rave reviews which had managed to catch Andre’s attention. Known as a harsh foodie critic, an Andre DeNeuve review was conducted a gold standard among those who considered themselves to be true gourmets. For the staff at de Noir, this was their biggest challenge since a favorable review would cement their ...

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Blizzard of 1967

If you have ever lived in Upstate New York, you will most likely be familiar with the term “Lake Effect Snow.” What this means is Syracuse gets more snow due to Lake Effect Snow than the city would get otherwise. My mom, Carole, hated snow, but had lived in New York State all her life experiencing her share of this Lake Effect Snow. Dad, on the other hand, was quite used to this phenomenon, because he too had lived in New York all his life. His younger brother Allan was in the same boat as his wife Ann Marie and their five boys. They live...

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The Blizzard of 1967

If you have ever lived in Upstate New York, you will most likely be familiar with the term “Lake Effect Snow.” What this means is Syracuse gets more snow due to Lake Effect Snow than the city would get otherwise. My mom, Carole, hated snow, but had lived in New York State all her life experiencing her share of this Lake Effect Snow. Dad, on the other hand, was quite used to this phenomenon, because he too had lived in New York all his life. His younger brother Allan was in the same boat as his wife Ann Marie and their five boys. They live...

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