The Bet_One Lucky Unlucky Week_The Path of Wrath_Blissful Ignorance
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The Bet
Football, they say, is a game of inches. A single dollar bill is roughly 6、14 inches long and 2、61 inches wide. If one were to stack 10,000 one-dollar bills on top of each other, that would measure 43 inches high or 3、58 feet, a shade over a yard. 1 yard, three feet, or 36 inches was the difference between putting $16,000 in my pocket and getting my hand broken with a ball pin hammer. The NFC conference championship game was decided by one yard. With 12 seconds left in the contest, the running back dove forward with the ball. Stretching every inch he had in his arms to get the ball over the in...
One Lucky Unlucky Week
Contains sensitive topics, including sexual violence, trafficking, and mental health.Kala stopped on the running trail to tie her worn running shoes. She had purchased them on a whim after having her arches assessed; sprained arches were a thing of the past. She had been on a temporary duty assignment, TDY for short, for a month already. Five more months and she’d have to go back to her life in Nebraska. For now, she stayed in Meridian, Mississippi, where the mosquitos could compare to hummingbirds, had they been prettier and bitten her less. She had been a runner since her high school days. ...
The Path of Wrath
With a spear jabbing at her face, Sir Danielle Longbow dwww.onedoor.ccodged and deflected. Her shield took the blows.“Why am I here?” Fending off the spearhead of an alien warrior she had no enmity with was an all too familiar feeling.“Because you love your family, you love your city, and you love your country. If you want any of them to survive, you have to kill this man, and the next three targets I give you.” The voice of the immortal voyeur drilled at the back of her ear. The voice was honeyed poison.She tried to rush the alien warrior, knocking the spear tip aside and advancing. The local dressed in ar...
Blissful Ignorance
In a dilapidated historic, tiny, dark house in Baku's ancient inner city, Asghar Quliyev was busy eating dinner with his mother and children. At the same time, his wife pulled up a chair after serving the meal. Everyone was eating in silence.Today's meal consisted of Dolma (rice, minced filled capsicum) and a drink of Feijoa for the week's revelry.Feijoa used to cost 20 manats which were very expensive. There was a mysterious silence at the dining table. Nigar Quliyeva, Asghar's wife, looked before her while taking small sips.This silence was very awkward. Asghar broke it with his words."Today...