Tag: fifty
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June 10, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
Significant portions of his psyche seemed 30 years younger than his years.
This caused significant problems with significant portions of his life and with others significant to him.
This concerned him. . . . more
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October 19, 2007 05:27 AM EDT --
For so long you travelled the same way to work. Your cup occupied the same place in the cupboard. You knew everybody and everything, were the old hand, wore the gold watch.
Now you travel a new road . . . more
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June 19, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
Scuba diving off Carmel , my regulator malfunctions and I inhale frothy sea-water. I can see my dive buddy's back; he's busy photographing fish. Popping my weight belt and tank, gagging, desperately . . . more
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November 07, 2006 05:55 AM EST --
Sun bruised, emaciated body, his stunning green eyes contrasted with a wizened face. Track marks lined pale flesh under his scrawny arms. Veins that had seen too many needles of pain filled ecstasy. . . . more
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January 21, 2007 11:14 PM EST --
She walked into the room and heaved a sigh as tears rolled gently down her face. So many memories. Sports trophies. Graduation pictures. An old Boy Scout uniform still hanging in the . . . more
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March 01, 2007 04:53 AM EST --
It starts off as just a house, a box with windows, and you miss your old home. You arrange your things just so and wait for the new smells and sounds to bleed into you.
Then one day you are home, and . . . more
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October 11, 2006 03:34 AM EDT --
Clicking between screens, I backtrack, getting lost again. Another pathway beckons, seizes my attention with virtual arms until I cease to recall my original destination. Wait, I wanted to comment on…look . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:08 PM EST --
Write it, love it. Reread it, gut it.
Decide which words say more by their absence, or have cousins who are more eloquent. Each one should stand on its own and work well in the chorus. And when you think . . . more
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January 23, 2007 05:06 AM EST --
"Le koi maua sese! " my wife says to me when frustration overtakes her. I can't speak Samoan, but I know what that means. Even if I didn't, her tone would give it away.This is why the . . . more
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April 29, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
I was nervous; never been in therapy before. The diplomas on the wall intimidated me. Assuming humor to be a good ice-breaker, I said, "So, Doc, ever been on this couch yourself?" He slammed . . . more
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December 01, 2006 03:02 PM EST --
Light blunders through the unrefined blue jar. Poor cousin next to cut-crystal vase and rose-pink sherry glass. No silver filigree of the Venetian decanter or fine gold-leaf embossing of ancestral . . . more
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June 26, 2007 05:14 AM EDT --
Bully Bruno bruised Billy’s back behind Butcher’s Block. Bruno blundered by beating Billy; Billy became bold. Billy boxed behind Ben’s Bar, becoming a better boxer. . . . more
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June 26, 2007 05:35 AM EDT --
Amelia agonized about Anson. Amelia adored Anson, absolutely. Anson, artfully aware about Amelia, adroitly avoided Amelia’s acquaintance. Amelia altered appearance and attracted . . . more
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September 09, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
In the myriad of personality types in existence I had to be one who lives in world of longing. Contentment in the moment, yes, but always this fragrance on the breeze to go on and do something extraordinary . . . more
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January 10, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
She entered my life in red and painted it with vibrant hues. In her eyes I saw love and in her arms I found solace. Her laughter echoed like bells in a temple. Giving me two prized possessions, she . . . more
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January 13, 2008 03:59 PM EST --
In a crowded room amidst cacophonous conversation and inadvertent smiles, I still feel desolate. I long for feelings that light up my heart, love that exuberates in the eyes and passion that satiates . . . more
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January 16, 2007 08:51 AM EST --
The old man trudged, head hung low, toward the sedan and his awaiting son, in deep thought of the wife and daughter he had lost in that horrible automobile accident years earlier. Trips . . . more
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October 19, 2006 06:44 AM EDT --
She held on for dear life, tears flowing. How had her perfect world turned upside down with one too many drinks? She remembered the sound of metal crashing, and then pain. The headlights . . . more
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October 28, 2006 12:39 PM EDT --
The kitten awaits its prey, peering between slats of a fence.
The moment to attack arrives!
Small black paws swing quickly; claws outstretched in hopes of snagging its victim.
The bent old woman hobbles . . . more
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December 03, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
She looked down at her hands, withered with age. So many lonely years, waiting. A tear rolled down her cheek, remembering the precious few stolen moments they had shared. . . . more
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