Abandonment_A Step Back In Time_Dirty Kind of Green_The Tourist
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Abandonment
Danny and I were more than friends. We were cousins, bonded by blood. The son of my father’s brother. Being separated by only six months- him having the edge- the two of us were inseparable. From playing war in elementary school to violent video games in middle school, to smoking pot out of a water bottle as high schoolers, then getting drunk and chasing women at bars as young adults. The problem was, I had learned to calm down and know my limits- Danny never did. Sure, it was fun and games at first. Danny was better looking than I was and his devil-may-care attitude always charmed the ...
A Step Back In Time
Willa tilted her head to look up at the giant stone columns at the entrance of the Chicago Field Museum. She didn’t know why her dad and step-mom Renee insisted on dragging her to things like this whenever they traveled. She was seventeen now. Why couldn’t they do normal things like go to a water park or rent a boat? “This place was built to hold artifacts from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition,” Dad said. He was always acting like a walking encyclopedia with his facts and figures. If you asked him about any topic, he could tell you at least one thing that he thought was interesting. Willa...
Dirty Kind of Green
-Did you find the shack ok?-Hard to miss it. You’re the only light on the lake.- How I like it, more fish for me-- the walleyes bite best after dusk. You can go ahead and set your bag on the table next to the stove. Don’t mind the dog, that’s Fillmore, likes to stay by the fire.- Beautiful coat. Beagle? -Coonhound. Got him to keep the woodchucks out of my garden though he mainly just licks his asshole as if he’s fixin’ to mail it.-...-Pull a chair up in front of me between the two holes, there’s some gin by the door if you want. It’s a little rough, tastes like a Christmas tree, it’ll warm y...
The Tourist
Write about someone who’s trying to accomplish a task that used to be easy but is now made complicated by a pandemic.Now, getting a visa to another country is not exactly ‘easy’ at best, but it is usually pretty straight forward. Fill out some forms, pay a chunk of money, wait an eternity, and...voila! Over the years, Claire had filed for dozens owww.onedoor.ccf them, paid thousands of dollars, and had a fair share of rejections as well. She was pretty savvy at it. Things had changed over the years; papers had been replaced with online in only the last year and a half, her visas predated biometrics and had ...