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Weekly Contest #366
I've meant to do this for years. I have to do it, now. Otherwise I'll hate myself forever. It's been a dead weight on me all my life, and it makes me sick; I have to remove it, somehow.After my mother passed, my family-my sister Doreen and I, that was all-had title to the house, as the next of kin. It had the old furniture in it from when we were kids-the table in the living room with the cotton doily on it, the big old pump organ with the family bible on it, the the stereo console where Dad played his LPs, the upright piano with Dad's LPs s...
Weekly Contest #341
I took the taxi to the only diner in Neville Township, where I grew up. The township was a long line of houses and small businesses, and on either side were acres of trees. "Why, hello, Bobby," I hear a screechy voice-Tommy Compton, one of the kids in school who couldn't stop harassing me. "You're not leaving," Tommy screeched some more. "You're gonna stay here, and I'm gonna keep beating you!"I strode towards the Township Diner, then turned and said, "You're not in prison yet?"I been there!" he announced and smiled. "I can take it and you c...
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