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Cheryl PetersonPatriarch Okoro Stories 04-07

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  • Sister from Another Mister
  • Companion
  • Anniversary
  • Sandboxes and Six Packs
  • Sister from Another Mister

    We sat in the darkness. We sat in silence. We sat side by side and watched the rain as it pelted down forming puddles on the road. We each held on tightly to the glass in our hand. Hoping the alcohol would numb the pain. We’d been friends since we were ten years old. Best friends forever. We’d laughed together, we’d cried together and we’d always stood by each other in our 17 years of friendship. But here we were. Both experiencing heartbreak and for the first time, not knowing how to make the other feel better. We each felt hopeless in not knowing what the right thing to say or do would be be...Yx5one door

    Companion

    My name is Martin Walker. Iwww.onedoor.cc am an English teacher at a disciplinary high school. Disciplinary, because, the students don't have the guts to walk into the school premises with rifles and pistols. I love my job, because of the good pay and joyful life-changing moments with the amazing kids.Ok, that wasn't it, but that's part of it. I love kids, you know. The truth is, I have always loved marking scripts and grading scores. It's fun knowing people's grades and better when I'm the one giving the grades.It's the last of school before the winter holiday. Students are writing their final exams before...Yx5one door

    Anniversary

    Our first anniversary together we had been poor. Mac and Cheese from a packet, with non alcoholic wine, cheap chocolate mousse, bargain basement cognac and cheap cigars had been our very cheap dinner of choice.It soon became a yearly ritual, no matter how well we were doing. Our personal in joke. We’ve always joked about how horrible it was. But the truth is; The fact that the two of us were together makes it taste like the best food from the finest restaurant in the world.It’s amazing how love can do that. Make the mundane into the magical and heal even the most broken of hearts. Love got me ...Yx5one door

    Sandboxes and Six Packs

    Sandboxes and Six PacksBy J. DodgeThey first met in the sandbox outside Mrs. Clark’s first grade classroom window. Will was the youngest of four in his brothers hand me downs and Justin was an only child with a few extra toys and a yearning to share. Through their eyes the sand morphed into a desolate desert where the forces of good and evil would do battle, emphasized with laser noises and imaginative storytelling. Will laughed, Justin smiled, in that half hour of action figures and pretend the two became best friends.The two were inseparable from that day on. A month later Will would politel...Yx5one door

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