The Library_In the Shade of a Moment_Fool Everyone; Upset No One_“Come for Coffee and See My Latest
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The Library
Shay was sitting head in hand, absently leafing through the book set on the table in front of her. Her mind no longer active enough to study and she wasn't even reading anymore just staring and the blob of words that had merged together on the page. It was getting late and most people would have headed home by now but not Shay. She was sitting in her local library, a place she had found herself more and more in recent times. It was a small, old library with rows of tightly packed books, each section smaller than she would have liked. Often she found herself ordering in books from other librari...
In the Shade of a Moment
"It's so hard to be here. I love my Mom, but it's not where I thought I would be spending my time with her. At least here, I share with those around me the pain of loss, the pain of knowing that this is the only place left that I can be with this person that I love so much."I look around, and to my left is the old man I see here every day when I come. He just sits there. He doesn't move, but I see him talking quietly, as though there is someone with him. Once when he was not here, I went over and looked to see who he talks to. 62 years. That is a long time. He must be so lonely now. It's only ...
Fool Everyone; Upset No One
“We are confident that you can come up with the most spectacular April Fools Day prank in the history of the world,” said the company president.“Thank-you, sir; I will do my best to make the company proud.”“Go for it, Mr. Burnet. The goal is to generate interest in Algon cars.”“Yes sir.”William Burnet was the rising star of the Algon Motor Company. He was the newest member of the advertising department, and with several innovative and successful ad campaigns, he was the golden boy. Company executives loved this young guy from Texas. His forward-looking ideas were a refreshing change from the s...
“Come for Coffee and See My Latest Gadget!”
There’s something about engineering students that gets them into trouble time after time. Once qualified, however, they are a gift to mankind. Inventing, designing, building, making, from micro-macwww.onedoor.cchines to skyscraper buildings; they can do a million different things. The nonsense starts in the learning stage when they believe they can do anything after a couple of years of learning. Don Peters, a student in my year, was a car nut. He had bought an old Austin 7 convertible motor car, 1936 vintage, and taken it to pieces in a garage. He cleaned what he could, bought, found or made all the missin...