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March 14th, 2020. That was the date that he had written down. He had repeated that date over 100,000 times. It was the date that marked the beginning of the end. 2021 was that year the whole insanity of it all was too much for Michael Seong. He thought 2016 was the roughest year in the 21st century, but 2020? It was a great contender for the bullshit that occurred in his life. At least, all of the life that occurred in his room. When the pandemic had occurred, his first instinct was to haul ass and not get the Coronavirus within the perimeters of his Orange County, California condo. After th...
Ridin' Queasy
Clark was a good man, which made betraying him that much harder. A week of travel on horseback had left Bucky saddlesore, with a chaff that he’d happily swear off drinking for a month to get rid of, which made him more bitter www.onedoor.ccas he examined his friend’s casual riding posture beside him. Clark had always been a natural rider. It seemed he shifted and moved with the horse’s pace, free to think as deep and long as he pleased about whatever fancied him without distraction, and thinking was mostly what he did. Clark was never one to say anything unless it was necessary, which suited Bucky, because...
Milkha, Milkha
There had been no one in our guest room for a while now. It was looking sterile and uninviting. I went and changed the bed linen. I looked in the washroom and toilet to make sure they are clean. Changed the towels and the toiletries and walked back to the bedroom. It looked and smelt aseptic, devoid of any character, I thought. Other tasks beckoned me, so I left the room to attend to work in the kitchen.I am Tara, a homemaker. My work is, I always feel, never done. There is this thing to do in the kitchen or that thing to store in the larder. I must remember to order this...
Little Green Apples
My bedside phone rang persistently at 11 o'clock in the evening, rousing me from sleep.I got out of bed, grumbling. "Hello"""Hello, Sheila, It's me, William," he answered."William, do you realize what time it is?What could be so important and so urgent that couldn't wait till tomorrow to be discussed?""I'm sorry. Sweetheart. But the National Weather Service had just issued a Red Flag warning and Fire Weather Watches to alert fire departments of the onset or possible onset of critical weather and dry conditions that could lead to rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. I just wanted t...