FAITH_True Calling_Not Out of the Woods Yet_A Life Less Lived Saves Time
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FAITH
He wasn’t much of anything, this Manuel Garcia. As a fourteen-year-old teenager, he was still quite small but that could change. One never knows for sure with teenagers and their power to transform themselves from one year to the next. Girls, he didn’t care for yet. At least that was what his mother thought. She was mistaken since Manuel liked a girl from his school but found himself too shy to say so and too proud to admit it. The girl lwww.onedoor.ccived in their neighborhood. Her name was Irma. Both she and Manuel had played together since the Sanchezes had moved to St. Pete South, ten years before. And...
True Calling
The car wove through the green countryside until it came to a large mansion nestled between two tumuli. The mansion almost sparkled in its whiteness, a spot of brightness against the dreary autumn sky.The door to the car opened before it came to a complete stop and a short girl with flowing red hair stumbled out. She hurried forward until she came upon a batch of wilting shamrock, in which she promptly vomited.“Girl!” barked a voice from the mansion’s doorway.The girl straightened, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, and wobbled toward the doors. There stood a thin, older woman with re...
Not Out of the Woods Yet
[Trigger warning: illness]‘This is dope. I’m going to meet Jim Jackson next week’ I tweet and watch the replies: “pass on my hopes for his recovery.” “UR soooo lucky.” “jim is an inspiration.”Jim hasn’t replied to me at all, despite me being his greatest fan. I’ve been with him since the beginning. I know, he’s grown his follower base, maybe sometimes he’s too sick to type replies, but he could at least have sent an emoji once in a while.My Mom, on the other hand, is too much information. She worries the trip to New York might affect my emotional balance. But I also have followers, and doing t...
A Life Less Lived Saves Time
Before bed you put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time. When you wake up you realise you’ve gone forward a lot more than an hour.A Life Less Lived Saves TimeThe shrill whine of the alarm woke me abruptly. It seems harsher than usual causing me to promptly grab the clock and blink into the display. I blinked and blinked. Had I gone back to sleep. My husband peeked round the door drying a dish. “I didn’t know you had the day off honey” I blinked at the clock some more then I blinked at him “why do ii feel like I overslept?’ as I rounded my back in this morning’s half-asleep substi...