That One Tree

All the other trees along the street had large, broad green leaves that turned golden yellow every fall and fell in a beautiful carpet to the sidewalk.  They were all lightly chestnut colored trunks, with swirlings of darker browns up and down the branches and bark.  They grew tall, but…

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Close Enough

Deadlines are a beast, but they never used to worry me… Not like they do now… I’d been writing and hitting deadlines since grade school, so I never used to worry about them.  Generally, I was that overachiever that finished early so that I could have at least one full…

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Bird Call

The hoot of an owl wouldn’t have been such a strange thing to hear in the pitch dark of the woods at the beginning hours of a new day if they hadn’t all been caught, killed, or scared off.  We hadn’t heard owls in these woods for the last several…

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Not with a Bang, but with a Whisper

COVID-19 Corona Virus Disease 2019 The disease hit, and the world went to pieces.  Quarantines and lock downs, enforced to different levels of severity.  Families divided and kept apart for a long list of reasons.  Governments flailed, people rallied or revolted, and trust was broken between everyone. The media took…

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Profiler

It had been Regina’s dream to become an FBI Profiler since she was a young child and had actually spent some time with one.  She was fascinated by the larger-than-life man who seemed to see all and know even more.  She decided right then and there that she would become…

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The Obsidian Plague

She used to joke about her “teacher’s immune system”.  After the first couple years of teaching, she just didn’t get sick anymore.  She didn’t take anything, save some glasses of orange juice, but she really did have impressive natural defenses.  When everyone else was out with the flu or some…

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