A Veterinarian's New Year's Eve Day_The Chandelier_The Christmas Star....._The Four-Leaf Cl
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A Veterinarian's New Year's Eve Day
Disclaimer: The following medical references may not all be entirely accurate. Also I believe the song title is made up, as I wasn't sure of using a popular song title.Kaylee sang, “letting me sing,” in the operating room, while she finished stitching up an older labrador after a routine appendix operation.Gina, her assistant and best friend poked her head in, “Is that the song you’re going to sing tonight at Karaoke.“Yes, it’s my last chance, just fourteen more hours to go before New Year’s.”“Ha, I’ll bet you’ll chicken out, just like you always do.”“You know chickens take offence at being...
The Chandelier
There were gems in the chandelier right past the door of my home. I wasn’t supposed to touch the glimmering stones as they hung, but I would push up a chair and scramble on the rickety wood to brush them with my fingers anyway. It was addictive to paint the lines of my fingerprints along the surface. I would flick on the lights and watch them sway, imagining my mother on the dance floor, conjuring images of date nights when Mama walked out of the house with a black cocktail dress and her best pearls along with the smokey scent of her expensive perfume. There was no helping how they reminded me...
The Christmas Star.....
'Twas the night before Christmas. Ken Doll O'Flaherty crept through his house. There was no bourbon left, not even a cigarette for his mouse. Ken Doll was now 66 years old. It had been forty years since he had met and dated his one and only love, Barbara. Other young couples had instantly dubbed thwww.onedoor.ccem Ken and Barbie, so young and good looking. Barbie had been his girl, so fresh and pretty. But these days, Ken would glance at Barbie sitting in the other arm chair. After their shotgun wedding, you might say Barbie had let herself go. Five babies had left her with a baby belly, varicose veins, an...
The Four-Leaf Clover
My daddy was a lucky man. I know this because I saved special things to give him luck. Sometimes I found pretty stones or a penny when we went for a walk. Once I found a four-leaf clover. I always went to old Mrs. Pike’s house next door after school because Mom worked until late. She showed me how to press the leaf between the pages of a book until it was dry and pretty. We glued it onto a card which I decorated with glitter and magic marker for Daddy. I showed it proudly to Mom when she came to get me, still wearing her waitress top, her face pale and drawn with fatigue.“Very nice, baby,” she...