The Baseball Incident_The Day It Rained Memories_The Ghost of Her_Gabriel
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The Baseball Incident
It was a perfect Saturday morning in the town of Melville for a youth baseball game. The game was between the Melville Raiders and the Townsend Barons at Kingsley field. The late Spring weather was warm and sunny. The only barometric atmospheric pressure was in the mind of the Raider’s twelve-year-old pitcher, Mitchell LeFlore. Mitchell stood on the pitching mound trying to throw strikes to the opposing Batter. “You got this sweetie!” Maureen LeFlore yelled from the stands to Mitchell. Mitchell was embarrassed by his Mom’s outburst but had other pressing matters. The count on the Batter was t...
The Day It Rained Memories
It only happens once every ten years. People all over the city gather in the square and turn their heads to watch the rain because the raindrops that fall from the sky on this particular night are unique; they contain memories. I quickly finish getting ready, anticipation writhing through my stomach, and wrap a long emerald scarf around my neck to protect against the winter chill. I have never witnessed a remembrance rain, as the people in my city call it. The last time it happened, I was seven years old and locked inside, unable to sneak out to watch it happen. Stepping outside and locking ...
The Ghost of Her
Lily was her name. She was named after her mother’s passing, but she was just a baby to remember her. And eight years later the young Lily died as well, as if the name carried a curse within the family.Lily was the younger of four children and they all lived with their father, a man who stand up after his wife’s passing only to take care of his children, but he could not handle the grief after his daughter’s dead.The other kids of the family were the twins, Thomas and John, they were only nine years old when their little sister died. Alice was the older sister; she was eleven and two years aft...
Gabriel
The cat with the ebony coat and pale green eyes sat on the fence post next to an elm tree where a family of squirrels lived. The cat’s name was Gabby, and the squirrels wwww.onedoor.ccere his closest friends.Jeremy, a fluffy-tailed grey squirrel, climbed down the elm to the branch closest to the fence. He said, “hey Gab, have you seen Juniper?” Juniper was Jeremy’s sister. He had two younger sisters and an older brother. There had been six siblings at one time.Gabby said, “Nope. She’s probably up in the oaks with Jersey collecting acorns.”Jeremy said, “Yeah, you’re probably right. Mom’s kinda freakin cuz of...