Three Views of the Bridge_I’m an ordinary tooth._And life went on_Cloudy with a Chance of Cancer
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Three Views of the Bridge
Three Views From the Suicide Bridge“Please, don’t do it. Don’t do it,” the gusting winds blew around his head and whipped the man’s brown, stringy hair, but the drumming of Rodney’s erratically beating heart drowned the plea roaring in his ears. His grip tightened on the low guard railing. At last! The perfect suicide bridge. Stretching further out over the side of the New River Gorge Bridge, he squinted through ghostly morning haze shrouding the steep-sided canyon—the murmuring river flowing far below enticing, the mist’s curling fingers beckoning. “Hey, fella. Gonna’ jump?” The words, flun...
I’m an ordinary tooth.
I’m an ordinary tooth. Not tall, not short, not flat, and definitely not sharp. I’m inconspicuous as my senile grandpa used to say. It was one of those dry mornings at Red School when our class was preparing fwww.onedoor.ccor a test for test’s sake. One of the front teeth bent down to the red board and wrote some cribs under the hooting of the class. My fellows from the last row and I were not participating in that circus. We had an unspoken agreement with our old and chubby teacher, Mr. Blue Toothbrush. He did not bother us, and we mutually did not disturb him. While he was polishing and adoring the front...
And life went on
Elena wasn't very clear on the details. She could not fathom how quickly she had let go of her common sense for sheer, utter recklessness.It could be blamed, she supposed, on the Ferris Wheel of thoughts her mind had become; receive the highest grades, get the best recommendations, gain this internship or that, look good, dress well; the same drivel running over and over in a slow torturous pace in her head. Breaking away from them, breaking away from that need for perfection and success, had been thrilling. Twenty years old and still living with her mother, Elena could not deny the thrill t...
Cloudy with a Chance of Cancer
"How are you doing Darryl?" Maria asked. She took a cigarette from my brother's mouth and took a puff. She handed it back to him and exhaled. He finished it and tossed the butt to the pavement. "Thanks for letting Mary visit with us for the weekend." "I'm fine Maria, considering everything going on with dad and all. Mary loves hanging out with Sarah when she can so thank you too.""Steve, I'm heading off to work. You two look after each other okay." She gave him a kiss then got in her car and drove off. Mary wandered over to the playground somewhere. "What do you think mom will do when the old...