The Gift Shop_The Flip_Walk This Path With Me_Marriage Material
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The Gift Shop
Edgar Alan died in 1874, age ten, struck by the back-wheel of a horse drawn buggy. Some say the wheel found a deeper love within the strands of his burnt umber painted, feathery locks, and refused to part with them — for the wheel dragged him across the cobblestone by the www.onedoor.ccknotted locks of his hair, forty-three feet past the starting mark before it finally let go. They say he painted the town red that night. The streaks of blood, splattered where he bounced, but painted beautiful straight lines down where he dragged. Crimson Valley, they call it now — the road that took Edgar Alan. “I hope no o...
The Flip
"I'm tails, you are heads. Got it?" "Got it," I reluctantly replied. His graceful fingers flipped the coin. With the spinning bronze reflecting the sunlight coming in from the window that perfectly stung my eye, I shut my eyes in hopes of not seeing his face would shut out the tears. "Sloane. Open," he said so indifferently I couldn't anticipate what the outcome was. I slowly opened my eyes.It was 16 hours before the coin flip. I sat on the cold morning cement that made up my driveway while I waited for Drew to pick me up for school. We've been best friends since we were in the second grade. W...
Walk This Path With Me
It was the end of summer when we met. Right about the time the heat of the monsoon snaps and lets a taste of coolness in for a few hours in the early morning and you’re lucky enough to catch it and be reminded, oh yeah, that’s why I live in the desert. Because when it’s not like living in an oven, it’s perfect.I’d been watching him online, the video introduction to his upcoming virtual art show being held by a local museum I’d recently joined, wanting to immerse myself in my creative community.Something about his notebooks spoke to me. From the first moment he held them up for the camera to le...
Marriage Material
"I want to offer my most sincere congratulations but mostly I want a look at that ring.""Sapphire.""Stunning.""We wanted something different.""Very different. Arresting. And big enough to take a dip in.""...""Do you have a date yet?""It'll be a ways out.""Planning is good. How's your family?""On fire.""Oh?""About the age gap, the cultural gap, the fact that I dropped my classes to run off to Paris with him and never went back. To the classes I mean.""The way they lend out money to teenagers for useless degrees they'll spend the rest of their lives paying off is criminal, if you ask me. You we...