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Michael WilliamsSivaram Govind Stories 04-07

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  • DINNER IN DENVER
  • STRANGER AT THE DOOR
  • What Happened?
  • Disagreement
  • DINNER IN Dwww.onedoor.ccENVER

             Mike Wynan made the trip to Long Island for his sister’s wedding in the autumn of 1979、 Mike Wynan was now about to board the first of three planes for his return trip home to El Paso. He thought about many things during his uneventful flight. Mike Wynan thought how he and many others were fooled by fate. Being just two years older than his sister, Kathy Wynan, enabled both brother and sister to share a large group of mutual friends. Tommy Jarvis dated Kathy Wynan for a number of years and it had generally been assumed that they would one day marry.Except, at the wedding ceremony, Kat...t4Aone door

    STRANGER AT THE DOOR

    It was a Saturday morning – a day away from work - and I sat studying Reedsy’s prompts. There was the usual $50 stake and I felt I could meet at least one of the prompts. It was quiet and sunny outside and the atmosphere was noiseless and very conducive to my efforts at writing. I must confess that I long to be left alone undisturbed to pursue writing. To start complying with Reedsy’s prompts I arranged my 2 dictionaries and the thesaurus for easy reference. Of course I could refer dates or data from Google. Only thing I needed was inspiration! I started up my laptop and was ready to meet the ...t4Aone door

    What Happened?

    Moan. “What happened? Where am I?”My mother sitting in a chair a few feet from my bed gave me her sweet, sympathetic smile, then said, “Oh, hi dear, I’m glad you are waking up. You are in County General Hospital. You were in a car accident.”I moaned again as I took inventory of all my aching body parts. I realized I wasn’t feeling anything in my legs. I tried wiggling my toes. Nothing. “I can’t feel my toes!”Mom closed her well worn Bible and scooted her chair up next to the bed. She reached out and squeezed my hand. “Yes, the doctors have been testing you. They don’t think you spinal-chord i...t4Aone door

    Disagreement

    “Are you coming tonight?”And there it was, the olive branch. Very few leaves and the bark seemed to be beginning to peel but a little careful inspection and it would reveal itself to indeed be an olive branch. Regardless, that was all he was going to get for a while so he figured he would be happy to make do with a singular branch. With any luck the rest of the tree would follow on later, he just needed to be patient. It would not be at all beneficial for him to mess it up now, he had spent too long thinking already and his partner was still stood in the doorway, most of him outside leaving ju...t4Aone door

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