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A Question of Satisfaction
By 1859, Captain Trueshott had defended his wife’s honour so many times she invested in a pair of duelling pistols for this purpose. Thwww.onedoor.cce days of the flintlock were ending, but as a weapon of choice for the habitual duellist, it was second to none. Agatha chose a pair of beautiful handmade weapons presented in a plush velvet-lined oak box. The 10-inch pistols fired large, heavy lead balls weighing half an ounce that travelled around 830 feet per second. They could therefore inflict severe wounds over the 30 paces between two adversaries. Despite a physician being in attendance at the occasions,...
Bro Code
“Ladies and gentlemen, we will soon begin our descent into San Francisco International Airport--”I jolt awake after ten hours of no rest. My wife is shaking my arm. “Wake up!” Her voice buzzes a few decibels below the airline announcement and above the whirring engines. “We’re landing.”“I know!” I grouse; my old bones groan as I shift in my seat. “I’m not deaf!”She ignores me, folding the indigo blanket of polyester on her lap, her face a perennial scowl. The back of her seat bounces up with a thud. “And straight up your chair!” she adds. A quiet sigh flees my throat while I did as bid. My hea...
Family Photos - A short story
Walking down the street in a rainy but empty street where a world has been torn apart by a novel virus called COVID 19、 Walking across a bare street where the town square once thrived I walk up to one of the shop windows to see whether or not I want to give my family anything this year. But the problem is the small mom and pop store was closed due to the quarantine that's going on where social distancing, masks, and government lock-downs are the new normal.When I was growing up didn't even get along with one of my uncles who always tells me that I show up too late and is way too hellbent on t...
My Mom
"I enrolled you in a boarding school." When I think back to the day I heard my mother say those words, I have so many so many emotions. I had no idea that she was even considering this and the fact that she just enrolled me without even discussing it with me made me furious.My father passed away when I was a baby, so it has always been just me and my mom. We were very close. We did everything together. Every Saturday we sat down and made a menu of what we were going to cook that week. Then we went grocery shopping together and bought all of the ingredients. We spent so much time preparing mea...