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Pancakes
“Boys!” Matt called up the stairs. “Pancakes are ready!”Five young men came down the stairs in a cacophony of clattering feet and raucous voices. Talking, pushing, shoving, and jesting, they all managed to find their seats at the well-worn farmhouse table without incident. When twww.onedoor.cchey were settled, Matt, clad in an apron that had been his mother’s, carried over a platter piled high with steaming, golden-brown pancakes and set it in the middle of the table.Leroy’s hand shot out to grab one of the cakes, but Vincent slapped it away. “Hands off, weirdo,” he scolded, earning him the sight of Leroy ...
The day I wished I'd died.
The past.Everybody has a past. Sometimes the past is a mystery as much as the present—and just as scary and disturbing as the future. In the brief and dangerous journey that humans call life, time is the never-ending, looming shadow, staring with its immortal eyes down at the earth. Time, cold and unforgiving, journals each heartbeat, each blink of an eye, each thought and touch, every time a newborn cries and every time a person draws the final breath.Some may have the fortune of looking back—when that fateful moment of peering inside, and discovering the very nature of one’s soul, arrives—an...
Echo
Humans are creatures that feed off of each other's success. It's the only way they can really feel something beyond all the cold layers of meat that surround their greedy hearts. Taking forcibly is the only giving that really contributes to any happiness they may attain throughout their lifetime. Why this broken, cruel system exists, no one knows. The only evident fact is that it exists, and that it is inexplicably controlling our lives. The philosophy of winning is that one can triumph only when another fails. Other people are the footstools to our success, and running in the race is only a c...
Time Served
“How many commandments do we have?” “Ten, last I checked.” “How many amendments to our Constitution are there?” “I don’t rightly know; twenty, thirty…why?”There are times when we find ourselves entrenched in a physical or mental activity, when we become so overwhelmed by repetitiveness, that we become essentially comatose. Incapable of mental and or physical function. Jail will do that to you. “How come we have only Ten commandments, and twenty-seven Amendments to our Constitution.” “Hey man, you is asking the wrong Dude. I not only don’t know but don’t care.” “How can you not care, when not...