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Let's Make a Doll
When it got hot in the valley, Thomas and Alfred drove their cows up to a cool, green pasture in the mountains to graze. Usually they stayed there with the cows for two months. Then they brought them down to the valley again. The work was easy enough, but, oh, it was boring. All day the two men tended their cows. At night they went back to the tiny ( Read more... ) -
What's for dinner?
During the summer of 1983, in a quiet town near Minneapolis, Minnesota, the charred body of a woman was found inside the kitchen stove of a small farmhouse. A video camera was also found in the kitchen, standing on a tripod and pointing at the oven. No tape was found inside the camera at the time ( Read more... ) -
The Difference
rather than cp the whole thing, here is a link:
http://everything2.com/e2node/The%2520Difference
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Letters Home
During the war a soldier faithfully wrote his mother every week so she would know he was all right, until one week she didn't get a letter and immediately began to worry. Within a couple of weeks she got a letter from the Army saying that her son had been captured and was being held in a Prisoner-of-War camp, and they assured her that they had no ( Read more... ) -
Sleeping Crazy
I started getting letters from you three weeks ago. They were weird, confusing things, but I knew it was your handwriting (you signed your name with the inverted F and you teased me about my tattoo, it had to be you) and I knew it was you. The first one read:
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Hangover
You get up in the morning, hungover. You roll over; your digital clock reads "MON 6:45". Shit, you think to yourself, you have work. Over the next hour you sluggishly get up and get ready for work. Before you leave the house you look in the mirror and admire your blue eyes. You truly believe you're a gift to women ( Read more... ) -
Saxons
My grandfather served in the European Theater of Operations during WWII, an experience he rarely talks much about. I've only managed to coax one story out of him ( Read more... )
