Stories tagged “visitor”
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In the Midst
At last. It was a shining, golden hour, like the sun had moved closer to earth. A hyper-real, hyper-luminous glare, light stabbing furiously at earth, plants, trees, grass. “Maybe this is what happens,” she thought, wiping fog from the pain...
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The Visitor
The man who favored his left leg sat down on the other side of a plexiglass window and picked up the telephone. I picked up a matching phone and listened to what he had to say. “You’ve never done a single thing with your life that you could...
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2 years later
It’s probably better for all involved if I skip the next two years, just giving you a brief overview of my ‘career’. The first dozen times or so, were so hard. Eventually I got into the swing of it. It became something to excel at. Go...
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The Visitor
Outside, a man walked around the neighborhood alone with only a suitcase and the clothes on his back to carry. He had nowhere to go. He wandered aimlessly around, trying to figure out a plan. The wintry temperature was dropping quickly, and he had to g...