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The
Message by Christopher T.
Werkman
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Back in late August, a young
gal augered into our ditch. Happened about three in the morning,
so she could have had a snoot-full, I don't know. Anyway, she
got her little pickup sideways, went off the road, overcorrected,
and hit our culvert like a battering ram. Troopers said she had
to be flying. Damned if I wasn't up in Canada hauling a load
of cars for a movie they were shooting up that way. |
Alternative
Endings by Christy Effinger
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"Do you remember that
time Aunt Helen thought she died?" I was on the phone with
my mother, and the memory had been weighing on me lately like
a gravestone. I read in a women's magazine that you should comb
through your family tree for all disease and cause of death,
as these grim realities might foretell your own fate. |
The
Enigmatic Elizabeth by Mickey
Grubb
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My Grandmother lived in a
large two-story house constructed in the late 1800s. There were
over twenty rooms in the house, most of which were bedrooms located
on the second floor. The upstairs section was accessible from
two directions: a steep, narrow stairway from the downstairs
kitchen; and, the front stairway just inside the front entrance
to the house. |
Von
Schnitzness by Jon Sindell
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It's Rob and Bob, the newlygrad nerds,
and we're cruisin' the backroads with Ranger Dave, Bob's cool
older cousin and forest service star.
"For city boys, you guys aren't that
bad," Dave says with a grin, for his face is fresh pink
from the Oregon sun, his face is always pink, except when it's
red when he's teased about Rosa and popping the question.
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