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The Unexpected Gift
“The best gifts are the unexpected ones.”~Author UnknownI’m not sure who originally coined the phrase “the best gifts are the unexpected ones,” but a truer saying has never been spoken. For whatever reason, I don’t have a lot of experience with truly meaningful gifts. My adult children aren’t really gift-givers. My parents kind of approached gift-giving from a monetary standpoint, and it's been years since I really exchanged gifts with my sister or close friends. Gift giving is hard, and I think over the years my family and I have been slowly moving away from the whole idea of gift exchange. T...
Silver lining
By Yvonne Albers – South Africa I sat there with my mouth partly open. The shock of the words that were coming from his mouth stung like nothing I had ever felt. Was this happening to me here in front of all these people? The scene he laid at my feet made the breath disappear from my lungs and the tears burning down my cheeks. I was numb and speechless to what I was experiencing at that second in life. All I could do was reach for my bag between my legs and slowly remove myself from the restaurant. Only for him to lean over and tell me not to make a scene. Don’t make a scene what the hell do y...
Elbert’s trouble
Elbert Chase was most worried about lunchtime. And he was right. Elbert had been just another kid standing in front of a cafeteria of unfamiliar students. It was not like he didn’t have any friends, but it was that he's new to Kevin's Academy. Elbert was thirteen with short black hair and light brown skin, but with a chubby body, and two round glasses with a thickness of an inch. He was thirteen years old, 5 foot 1, and Elbert had short legs that could barely support him to run; he barely had any muscle because he had a weird disease that made him gain a lot of weight. He wore a plain Nike T-s...
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It was during the second winter of the COVID-19 pandemic that we first learned of a deadly mutated strain of the virus. This strain the most terrifying yet. The virus not only mutated, it evolved. It evolved out of the realm of our understanding. Beyond our cognitive and scientific abilities. It no longer attacked the body; it attacked the mind. A catatonic like psychosis overtook its victims. A sinking heaviness would precipitate indefinite sleep that led to a certain early demise. All who contracted this mutated strain would succumb. It was theorized that the virus was ‘unlocking’ neuro path...