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Submitted to Contest #229
“This is too good to be true!” George swiped his shirt cuff at the tears streaming down his cheeks as his friends and neighbors stuffed wads of cash into a red Christmas stocking. Arms swarmed and swirled around him, stretching over shoulders, reaching around people, all of them extensions of joyful faces shouting “Merry Christmas George!” and “You da’ Man”. “I can’t believe it. Shucks folks.” Holding his daughter FooFoo on his hip, George blubbered, “It’s…it’s a Christmas miracle! That’s...
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HOW TO BUILD A FIRE “Most people think burning a brush pile is easy,” Jimmy said. “Just splash around some accelerant and put a match to it.” We’d just finished clearing some ground next to his grandmother’s apple orchard so she could expand her vegetable garden next Spring, a job the sweet old lady described as “just fittin’ for two 16 year old boys with too much time on their hands.” “You know how city people are.” Jimmy pulled a wad of red rag out of his jeans and scrubbed his face. “Always rushing and missin’ life’s mysteries...
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