Stories tagged “America”
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Agency 51-X
It was the most impressive undertaking the government had ever been part of. In 1997 President Clinton set up an agency with a cool-sounding name to monitor alien traffic going to and from the planet, because he’d just seen “Men In Black...
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Big Red Button
It’s your call. The big red button is staring you down; can you press it? The argument is there, clear and concise. America’s waiting for the next big epidemic; let’s give it to them. Can you do it? You hold your breath and close your...
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Pot Luck Fridays: Kendall's Story
I’m taking this story down, but since I can’t delete stories…
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A Hobo's Christmas
In the yuletide season of 1931, there was not a great deal to be merry about anywhere on God’s green earth (or God’s brown earth, as the case was in most of the middle of His own blessed America). Folks were starving and broke. There were c...
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Old Glory
I…I’m dying. Heh, life does flash before your eyes. How about that. Mom and Dad…life sure was good back in New York. Hey—this is my earliest memory! My third birthday in 1906! P.S. 118…twelve years of my life I spent at that school…...
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Diary of a King: Modern Day (As Dictated to the Secretary)
Heeeeeeee-yah, par’dner. Man, I love maself some kingin’ Man, I don’t even know how I become king o’ this land (belch) but I sure do know I like it. Alls I know if more boose, more ladies, and I’m happy as heell HEEEYYYAAA...
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Sequel to "In the company of bats"
The papers in the Forest Drive petrol station gives Obama (Caitlin likes to call him Osama) a strong lead over McCain; she makes a point of spitting when she steps outside. As she lights up there’s a blare from her SUV and she’s hollerin...
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Chips
A child shyly approaches the food counter at the latest tourist attraction she and her brothers had just run round. Quietly she asks the server for more chips, glancing nervously back at her family seated at a plastic table, surrounded by other familie...
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My own holiday.
The clouds were the dark grey of fresh charcoal. A fine mist filled the air and dampened every outdoor surface. People wore dark, hooded jackets and looked at their feet as they walked. The clouds’ lethargy seemed infectious. I wanted a celebrati...
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Neptune and The Overlord
Prime Minister Winston Churchill watched on the huge plasma screens as fleets of Chinooks and Super Stallions headed south over the British Channel. All around him, the headquarters of the British war machine bustled and hummed. “This is HQ, conf...
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The Desert That Wasn't
Humid. That was not what I was expecting when deplaning in Tuscon, AZ. I was expecting hot, dry, arid, but not humid. I quickly grabbed my luggage and raced for my friends car. “It is monsoon time”, Dan said. Monsoon? In the desert? Who cre...
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El demonio
Lo primero que hizo fue proponerselo. No abarcaban mucho sus planes, por eso mismo era decidido. El fin fue simple: la tortura ¿Qué más molesto que un mosquito que vuelve una y otra vez? Estudio a la gente, la sopeso, se decidio. El plan perfecto, ...
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Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the spinning Of the United States of America And to the republic for which it’s winning One nation under fraud With greed and murder For oil
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The Atheist Politician
Vanity Fair: We’re speaking with Senator Bryce Davis of New Mexico today about his bid for the White House in 2012. Davis: I’m glad to be here, Paul VF: To get right to the chase, you’re running for President next year. Davis: Yes VF:...
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A Trinity of Pain
I steeled myself. “I’m sorry. I can’t help you any more.” America looked up at me, her face stricken. “But, I thought we were friends.” We’re not friends… I’m just the poor fool who happened to fall...
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A Knight's Prayer
My other half. for once, screamed to speak. I tore at the bridle that held back my tongue. “You know I love you, I see you manipulate that fact with your eyes, you’re doing it now. When I show one iota of backward movement, you pull me inwa...