The 100 Club_Cup Half Full - Are You Kidding??_Family Reunion_Claiming Solitude
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*Note: The following document was found taped to a lamppost in the middle of Times Square during the New Year’s Day festivities. The envelope had the words ‘Read Me’ and led to a tourist reading through the entire document and then handing it over to the local authorities. The material here is being released in case anyone can provide some information to prevent whomever wrote it from completing their plan. Although it seems harmless, this could cause many problems with the current quarantine rules and restrictions. - from the NYPD * Dear Citizens of the World, My name is Michael and I am was ...
Cup Half Full - Are You Kidding??
Cup Half Full – Are You Kidding?I won a coloring contest in second grade: one free ticket to see Snow White in the theater. I was ecstatic until I learned that all the other second graders had won the same prize. Who can believe in good luck after a thing like that? It was like having to share a lottery ticket when I was only seven! I sometimes tell my adult friends that story over a few glasses of wine, declaring that I am a “What Cup?” kind of person. You know: Cup Half Full, Cup Half Empty. What friggin’ cup?? That well-honed philosophy of life made it difficult to pick myself up after a m...
Family Reunion
1,515 words Lesley Frost lesleyfrost0@gmail.comFAMILY REUNION.I steel myself as I walk into my aunt’s house for another family reunion. As I suspected, there’s no sign of my brother. How dos he always weasel out of these affairs? Everyone else is here in their usual tidy, little groups. Right, here I go. First, a big smile all round and then a quick slide through the hugs and beery kisses from the uncles. Dad is in the middle of them, as usual, probably expounding on the latest soccer match. Oh Lord, he’s wearing a blazer and his regimental tie and the rest of them are in their shirtsleeves. ...
Claiming Solitude
“Are yowww.onedoor.ccu coming tonight?” came the muffled question through the cubicle wall. Stacy’s enthusiasm came through loud and clear but Ramineh pretended not to have heard her. Ramineh depressed the power button of her computer and watched the screen go dark, just this small gesture gave her a sense of relief and she felt a loosening begin somewhere deep inside. The simple movement of pushing that off button signaled the end of another week and her accomplishment of successfully piloting herself through another sea of potentially turbulent and treacherous social waters. In her mind she drifted to tha...