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Submitted to Contest #271
To the hundreds of people who attended her irreverently festive funeral, “Aunt Josephine” was not just the life of every party she attended; she WAS the party! I knew this already since she raised me. I called her “Ant Momma,” she called me Robbie, short for Roberta. At her music-filled funerary fête, no one shed tears of sadness. Instead, those gathered at the cemetery laughed themselves into tears at the many Vegas-style one-liner eulogies from a string of colorful personalities who had shared different wild adventures with my Ant Momma. I...
Submitted to Contest #91
It was the perfect hiding place. The Aryan crew, the Taylor Street Ballers, and the cops want me dead. I am secreted in the old forgotten Beckley Library at the center of City Park praying that I will survive.I lived on Capital City's streets for 10 years because I lost my job and my house. So, it has been the street life for me.My life living rough in the park is not completely unpleasant because I have a part-time job flipping burgers and share an off-the-beaten-path grotto with four close friends. We have to endure the violent gangs ...
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