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Jerald LarsonKyla StanJoe Swan Stories 04-07

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  • Gypsy Rose Me
  • Chlorine and Salt
  • Have You Ever
  • If I should die before I wake
  • Gypsy Rose Me

    So, I'd had a few. But the Guinness in Dublin is beyond compare, and I have as much willpower as I have savings. Yes, Mastercard was sponsoring this trip to the Emerald Isle as it had so many excursions before, my one and only constant travelling companion.How long had I spent on O'Connell Bridge mesmerised by the yellow October sun twinkling off the Liffey as it bid adieu to another day? Too long, it seemed. A chill ensorceled me, breaking the spell as the sun sucked the last of its warmth beneath the horizon with it en route to New York, et al, on America's East Coast.A stark choice imposed ...fU2one door

    Chlorine and Salt

    Chlorine and Salt By Kyla StanI don’t consider myself a genius, but I know I'm not dumb either. I just know I learned a lesson, one of the most important lessons that all humans need to learn— and I mean real quick. Wild creatures need to be free. Sure, mankind loves to take things that don’t belong to them www.onedoor.ccand shove them in boxes full of chlorine. But you don’t understand. They need the salt. They need freedom.I'm an old man, so you gon’ be patient, ya hear? I’ll tell you from what I remember. I got so caught up in my selfishness that everythin's a bit blurry…..~.Livin’ in the country of Sout...fU2one door

    Have You Ever

    Have you ever noticed how once some thing gets into your head, it’s twice as hard to get it out than when you let it in? I suppose that is because we let all sorts of things in, without really paying attention, even recognizing it is happening. Involuntary absorption of external stimuli that have no definitive purpose, but exist all the same. They just end up in our heads, collecting dust, well I guess it would have to be brain dust, but then I don’t know if there is such a thing, but you get the idea. What I’m talking about are the ideas that creep into your mind and just sit there, and then ...fU2one door

    If I should die before I wake

    The side air-bag pushed me to the left and then the steering wheel bag punched me in the face and chest. My head slammed back into the headrest and that was all I really remembered for sometime. There were images that flickered like an old film and sounds that were faint one moment and blaring the next but nothing coherent just a jumbled montage of sensations.Then things settled down and the noise and the images faded, replaced by a deep unyielding blackness. I was aware, but with the lack of any sensation I honestly thought I was dead, there was no sound, no sight, just this black… nothing. “...fU2one door

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