Month: March 2023
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Thrift Store
The article was hidden in a stack of old magazines in the back of the thrift store. How I’d ended up in that dusty corner of the oldest thrift shop in America is another story for another day. What was the story was that the article came in the form of a delicately snipped newspaper…
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Pinball
“You ever swing over to Darlington for their burgers? Two smashed patties, melted American cheese, toasted bun, onions diced so fine you’d think it was a sauce. Grease runs down your fingers while you admire it.”
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Green Hill
“Poor, poor young, grandson,” the old woman mused. The wrinkled skin on her bony hands reminded him of the overcooked chicken wings from last Wednesday’s church buffet.
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Wheelbarrow
“There ain’t no use in pushing it up the hill,” Larry said. “Damn thing’ll just roll back down.” He wrung sweat from his red handkerchief, dunked it in a bucket of stale water, and tied it on his head like Johnny Lawrence, the real karate hero. He’d been telling his wife for years how they…
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