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John K AdamsChris CampbellMarg Stories 04-07

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  • Lost or Found
  • SANCTUARY ON HELL STREET
  • The Guardian Angel
  • April Is the Cruelist Month
  • Lost or Found

    Susan sat across from Gavin, her date from Plenty of Fish. The waiter poured their wine. Gavin spoke at length and with authority on many topics. Having little knowledge and fewer opinions, she took him at his word. ‘How did I agree to meet?’ Tuning in, she realized he’d begun another chapter on the Speed Dating event he attended. “You’ve been to one, right?” She nodded. “They’re amusing if you like feeding frenzies. But like in poker, if you don’t know who the mark is…” “It’s probably you…” He laughed, not knowing she meant herself. She could admit her obsession with clothing to friends. H...ZTmone door

    SANCTUARY ON HELL STREET

    The Arizona sun completed another life creating and life ending day across the desertscape of cactus and tumbleweeds of the Old West. What had been a hot dusty passage of energy warming all in its radiative glare, made way for the setting of the solar giant - triggering the onset of an early evening chill. Days out in the desert were hot and dry. The nights, bitterly cold and treacherous. That mattered little to the young Mexican family - kneeling before several agitated men baying like dogs howling at a full moon. The goosebumps rising on the arms of the parents of the young boy and girl, wer...ZTmone door

    The Guardian Angel

          He thought it would have been over by now. The comments whispered under breaths. The comments expressed unnaturally loudly. The way their voices went up an octave whenever they talked to him. Peter’s mom said that kids just needed to grow up. That they didn’t understand him, but it would get better. He wondered when. He was old enough to know that what they were doing was wrong, so how come they didn't know it? His mom said that Peter was special, more mature. But if that was the case, why did everyone treat him like he was so much younger? Like a baby?  He thought it would have been ove...ZTmone door

    April Is the Cruelist Month

    Introduction…The husband in this tale will eventually tell all, admit how he is to blame for the predicament he now faces: “Henry Jackson” is indeed responsible for what’s now coming down in his life. The man knows for certain that “Elizabeth Meyers Jackson” has retained a lawyer: Stanley S. Shirk, Esquire.Hank’s wife deliberately discarded “the letter” on their bathroom counter, where it could not possiblwww.onedoor.ccy be overlooked, the letter advising: “prior to any drawing up of your requisite paperwork, I’ll need to meet with you and your husband as soon as possible.”Irony, this communication expressi...ZTmone door

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