Stories tagged “curmudgeons”
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End of the World and all that
It came on slowly, he could give it that much. Watching from his front porch as the sky turned a sickening shade of green, the sea churning, the wind howling. He could see the sun above, swollen red and angry, seeming now twice its size. In reality he ...
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It's Great to be Alive
It took several hours for the young man to wake up. With a jerk he realized that he had, obviously, been tended to by the very man he’d come to beg help of. “You’ve probably got internal bleeding. I doubt you’ll last all that lo...