First Snow of the Season_Renewed and Reinvented_Defending The Status Quo_Up the River Styx Without a
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First Snow of the Season
First Snow of the SeasonSamuel J. CutlipJanuary 7,2019 Olivia Markfield was peacefully slwww.onedoor.cceeping, with curtains drawn, the sun peeking up. Her bedroom walls and floors were tainted with the faint orange glow of the sun. Sorrowfully, it was a school morning and Olivia would soon have to wake to her annoying, buzzing alarm clock. But what Olivia was oblivious to was that overnight a thick, white blanket of snow had silently fallen on the quiet village of Nisswa, the first of the season. Located in central Minnesota, southeast of Minneapolis, Nisswa is flanked on all sides with beautiful lakes, ex...
Renewed and Reinvented
Amelia carefully pushed the hanging clothes from once side of her mother’s closet to the other, stopping at each garment to consider if it matched the vision she had in her head. Since she was a child, she loved trying on her mother’s clothes and makeup. She even had a picture of herself with a face full of blue eyeshadow and red lipstick donning a green silk dress that was many sizes too big for her. In the photograph, her mother looks on quizzically, eyeing her childlike fashion sense However, this time she wasn’t playing dress up and her search through the closet in vain was for a school as...
Defending The Status Quo
What went through Rawlins’ mind as he opened his locker was, Houston, we have a problem.The crazy thing was, he had taken stock of his life that very morning as he was putting on his uniform, just before the excrement had hit the fan blades with a definite splat, in a manner of speaking. And, if he gave it any thought – which he didn’t do very often – as lives went, it wasn’t a bad one.Rawlins, Jeremy Edward, according to the plastic photo-ID card he was issued, back when he was first hired as a part-time security guard by the museum-gallery, seven years ago. Now he was 29 years old and that t...
Up the River Styx Without a Paddle, by Way of a White Cat
He showed up before sunup to escort me to the gas chamber.Who am I? I’m Carmine, Two-face Ciccone. Prisoner number 8318139、 Scheduled date of execution tomorrow, June 1st, at midnight o one. Stay of execution status: denied. Current situation since Charon showed up: fucked.He only appears on your legitimate last day. He wouldn't show if you were awarded a stay, only if it was a for sure thing. It was like he knew. According to prison lore, Charon will be with me for less than 24 hours. He had done this sort of thing for God knows how long, and I say God knows because literally, no one who work...