Stories tagged “age”
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Murk and Age
The foyer was empty and dark. It smelled of thick humidity and somewhere I heard the slow drip of water falling on water. There was a broken chair next to the door. The stuffing of its seat was sliced through and a spring poked out of it. A floorboard ...
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Roller Coaster Memories
I looked up at the cheery sign adorned with anthropomorphic animals. The paint was more faded than I remembered, but the background music, clinking chain, and screams of the riders down the first hill were just as I remembered. Some things never change...
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Effacée
It must have been hell living all those years alone in that big house, especially with her bad eyes and her crippled legs. When they found her in the kitchen, she had an old music box– a real antique, they said– on her lap. It was open and the pink...
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Age Is But A Number
She knocked on the door. A smiling old woman answered, looking surprised. - Hello – she said hurriedly -, is this Exit? - Yes, it is. Why? - I’d like to join. Here’s the money, my ID, and the joining form. She was enthusiastic; this h...
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Independence of the Heart
A continuing conversation filled the flame-scented air of the library. Overstuffed, paisley patterned armchairs dotted the room, but only two were treated to occupants. One was a young girl, eight years the junior of her male companion who was offering...
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Deprecated
In my younger days, my friends knew they could count on me. My children depended on me; I supported my wife as best I could, knowing Sharon would do the same. We tried to give our kids the lessons they needed back then, advice they asked for when they ...
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16.5 [Coming of Age Challenge]
16.5 means second-guessing your every move trying to predict the impact it’ll have trying to make the right choices. 16.5 means sobbing at Senior Speeches in that cramped, sacred greenroom because you know it will be your turn soon to leave, and ...
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Just Once
She’s awful young they say But time and again I prove myself to be mature, hard working I traveled overseas quite a few trips I came back with not a scratch only romantic dreams I went to school picked a career didn’t work out bounced back...
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A New Birth for the Ancient Man
Black smudged hands and aching joints were a thing of the past. The massive machine that sat in front him, staring blankly back, with his aged expression mirrored in it’s screen, seemed to taunt him. Yes, it had been years. And, yes, many of his ...
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The Man of a Thousand Faces
Underneath his naked feet, rocks angrily jabbed at the mans smooth, raw flesh causing a deep internal ach in each step he took along the beach. Halfway there, he desperately sought the weightlessness of the water. Though his arms were carved of muscle,...
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Lovers love.
my body stone cold my heart has stopped oh just to old I’m not like the young lovers. I’ve got many broken feelings for others. a man of my old age. has many stories on his page. I was in the same room. as her body fell as lifeless as...