The Influencer_The Passing of the Quill_Driving a Truck Full of Money_Hidden in Plain Sight
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The Influencer
Monday EveningMorning Weight: 112 lbs.Evening Weight: 114、8 lbs.Calories Ingested: 1,010Instagram Followers: 86,943“Just one more,” Virginia ordered.She’d spent the day at her aunt’s pool across town posing in a string bikini while her ten-year-old sister, Andy, petulantly took photos of her. “One more of me on the flamingo float,” she’d instructed Andy as she directed for her minion to grab the raft in the middle of the pool and push it towards her.“Come on, we already took a million of you on that stupid thing,” Andy had complained, scratching at her mosquito bitten leg.“Do you want ten doll...
The Passing of the Quill
No one is gonna believe this story, but I'll write it anyway. I was in the library doing some research for a story I was writing. My internet was down so I went there for the free Wi-Fi. Hadn't been inside of a brick-and-mortar library since the pandemic started. The first night I was there, I saw the ancient character hunched over in the corner and thought he was a homeless guy just getting in out of the cold. Boy, was I mistaken!Each night for the next several weeks, I'd see him there scribbling in an old notebook. That book looked about as old as he did. Over the course of my visits, I woul...
Driving a Truck Full of Money
See I wasn't straight when I wrote that I was carving a name And I was praying that no one was ever gonna love me again And I was late for somethin' Every hour of every day And completely lonesome out on the prairie With a truck full of money (Truck Full of Money by Donovan Woods) I have discovered that life is a whole lot better when you are driving a truck full of money. How that came about is still beyond me, because, you see, I am not known as the lucky kind. But just this once, God shined His light on me and here I am about an hour from the Colorado border after spending most of the d...
Hidden in Plain Sight
When I was 13, my parents and I spent our first winter vacation away from the Mid-Atlantic. We decided to drive north to the Adirondack's in update New York State, exchanging suburban sprawl for frozen lakes and rivers, as well as snow-covered mountains and woods.At first, I was a little nervous being out in the open, away from the hustle and bustle I'd grown up in. I think it's called agoraphobia. It took some doing, but I eventually overcame it and found myself enjoying learning new things: skiing, sledding, tobogganing, and ice skating. The only familiar activities were the snowball fights ...