Clueless Caper_Rita_Afterparty in Memoriam_Difficulties of Goodbye
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Clueless Caper
Dirk was dropped off just outside of Kansas city. He dusted off his sport coat and straightened his tie realizing the clothes he wore were his first mistake. "Hey mister need a ride?" a farmer yelled over the roar of the tractor engine."two more swipes and I'll come back for you." Dirk nodded and found a dry place to sit along a fence. "Why the hell did I apply to the U Protection Force?" he asked himself. The "interview" if you want to call it that is being dropped off in parts unknown to the applicant and having to survive with no money phone or friends for a year. If Dirk survived he would ...
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I stood there looking at the town I once resided in. It was small, with a lot of trees growing many feet into the sky. The flowers were bright and beautiful and grew wild. It looked like a painting. I missed it, but I wasn’t here to be happy. I was here to get some answers. I wasn’t here for revenge but just to get some valid answers as to why I was discarded. Why would a family just throw away their youngest daughter?My name was Rita and my oldest sister; older by 7 years was Annie. I wasn’t quite sure where my house was, but I knew the street because my mom wrote it on my summer dress. It w...
Afterparty in Memoriam
I plucked the last of the hot pink streamers from the corner of our living room and I let it waver gracefully on the way down, coming to drape over the sofa, spent from the day’s work of gussying up our home for our daughter’s birthday. I stepped down heavily from the step ladder, feeling like I could identify a little bit with the exhausted streamer. Herding a gaggle of children through explosions of sprinkles and forts of birthday presents is no joke. I looked over at my wife as I pulled the crepe paper from the couch. She was wearily scraping dried buttercream bits from the dining table wit...
Difficulties of Goodbye
Words have far more power that we give them credit for. Sure we talk about the power of words all the time, but it’s the small things in words that give them the power. You don't say ‘hey’ to a person who is interviewing you, and you wouldn’t normally say greetings to a good friend. The way you pronounce a word also plays into it, how formal you plan on treating someone, how close you are to a person. Goodbye’s, Farewells and see you laters are all so different.There was a heavy paper envelope in my hand. Excitement buzzed deep in my bones. This could be it! This could be the best moment of my...