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Mary LaForgeBill HumphreyValer Stories 04-07

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  • Winter Solstice Rhyme and Riddle
  • Ward D
  • I Can't Betray Anyone
  • Numbers
  • Winter Solstice Rhyme and Riddle

    Believing that she was on her way to Geraldine's, the Summer warmth on Sheila's sixteen-year-old shoulder felt safe as she walked the half-block from house to house. Instead, Death pulled up in a very nice car. HandsomeBoy peered out her way, and spoke. Before she knew it, it was Winter. THE SETUPHandsomeBoy was duly approved by this teen Sheila's elders, though they had never met him before. Sheila must have embellished how lovely of a boy he was. Sheila did this despite her being a mostly shy girl. Sheila's insecurities were showing, and her fear that no boy who was as ever so handsome as Ha...xtdone door

    Ward D

    Ward DIt was only supposed to snow about an inch. That was what the weatherman on T.V. had said. That was about a half-inch more snow than Mildred had seen the entire two years she had lived here in North Texas. Like most weather forecasts around here, that one had been wrong. The light snow and sleet that had been happening when she had arrived at work over twenty hours ago had quickly turned into a full-scale blizzard. By the time her shift had ended at eight o'clock this morning, there were at least four feet of heavy wet snow on the ground.  This part of the country was woefully unprepared...xtdone door

    I Can't Betray Anyone

    I Can’t Betray AnyoneLife just seems too difficult sometimes. I really don’t know what to do. There’s no one that I trust enough to talk to and then again I would feel guilty telling anyone else what I know. Right now I want the world to swallow me up, a big hollow black hole to appear and just as I go to cross the road when the little green man appears overhead, I’m gone. I want to have a stroke and lose my power of speech (Of course I will get well and then be able to talk again) I don’t want to have my faculties and be able to reason and think and decide. It’s a burden to know things and to...xtdone door

    Numbers

    Eloise stared at the green door in front of her, momentarily lost in her own thoughts.  Moments later, she let out a long sigh, beforwww.onedoor.cce she let herself in with her own key. It wasn’t that she minded spending time with her grandmas, they were two of her favorite people in the whole world, after all. What she minded was the fact that it was Valentine’s Day and it was the first time she didn’t spend it with her best friend. Her best friend tonight had a date. Which wasn’t really the problem, if she was being honest. The problem was that her crush hadn’t asked her out; she was sure it was going to ...xtdone door

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