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Many people outside of the entertainment world might just believe that being and entertainer is a glamorous life. It is but it isn’t. With that being said, let me introduce myself. My real name is Royce Nesby. Yet everyone calls me Dancer! I been dancing longer than I been walking. My mother would tell anyone who would listen that I even danced out of her womb. Maybe she drank one too many Margarita’s the late morning I ...
I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I *do*! That’s what Myer Wetherbee whispered under his breath after reading a letter that informed him that he would be inheriting $3,900,000 from an nasty mean spirited Great Uncle Raphael G. Wetherbee in which he never knew existed. The only conditions to collect the mon...
It had been less than 600 years since Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered America in 1492. Had he foreseen the future like Nostradamus: Great L.A. Earthquake: The first to strike California in the 2020s. Nostradamus, Quatrain 9:83 The sun twenty [degrees] in Taurus, so strongly the earth trembles.
Albert Dommer worked the midnight to 7 a.m. shift as a security guard at the Pepperidge Farm located somewhere in the state of Connecticut. Shortly after signing in for his boring shift half drunk off of Tequila and being highly inebriated from the hallucinations of some real life seeing side effects from some too strong gungi African marijuana on June 17, 1972, the 24-year-old Albert noticed something amiss. His...
I was 14 years old when the first time I seen and fell madly in love with Adeline Fairchild. Even before the most attractive and most popular girl in our freshmen year of high school didn’t know I even existed. I knew right then and there that one day she would eventually be my wife. It wasn’t until our junior year that she began to notice me. I had grown from 5’5 to 6’3 over the course of one summer and I was th...
My man and baby daddy Sloppy Drunk; I mean Sloppy Seconds primary and only goal in life. His main objective. His soul purpose for living. His reason of all reasons was to become a Big Time rapper like his idol “Chali 2na” who is not only named after a fish, but after a fish that's a mascot for canned tuna-in effect, a sellout rapping fish who gets paid to convince people to eat his family. For 12 long years I pati...
Through my own heroin use personal experiences I always believed in the duck test that is a form of deductive reasoning. This is its usual expression: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual characteristics. In the case of Lolita heroin use the look fit to a te...
You might or may be sitting there wondering why I chose that particular title for this story and if you thought it doesn’t fit the subject context you’d be absolutely wrong because this is my short story and I’m sticking to it! I got your full attention didn’t I? The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the 'bekantan' in Indonesia, is an arboreal Old World monkey with an unus...
A family business is a commercial organization in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family, related by blood or marriage or adoption, who has both the ability to influence the vision of the business and the willingness to use this ability to pursue distinctive goals. They are closely identified with the firm through leadership or ownership. Owner-manager entrepreneurial firms are not consid...
I was around 11 years old when my father remarried. In choosing what parent to reside with by order of the divorce decree I chose my father who was granted full custody. There were several reasons why I stood firm to live with my Pops. The main reason was the fact that he earned 6 figures. I truly enjoyed the big house, my friends, school and I wasn’t even sure did my mother know I existed. My mother enjoyed the taste of...
I committed my first petty theft at the tender old age of 6. My grandmother’s purse was sitting on her dresser just beckoning me to get some change so that I could send my wayward older sister Cindy to the candy store. It was close between the two of us who would have the title of black sheep of the family. When she ran away from home at the age of 13 to join the ...
“It had been 24 years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same,” as that thought suddenly crossed my mind. All I could think about were quotes from that book, A Tale of Two Cities. The 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London where a man just like me found love during the French Revolution. While I found true love right after the Impact Investment ESG Banking Conference in London.
I was taken totally off guard when I received an invitation from Uncle Sam. Induction is when you are drafted, which hasn’t happened in the US since Vietnam. It used to be for 1 or 2 years. Inductees go where they are sent; they have very little choice, if any. Enlistment is voluntary. It is generally for 3 or 4 years, depending on the service. There is a lot of choice for them. First came a few days of ...
Have you ever heard of the term reincarnation? Well let me tell you that reincarnation is the philosophical or religious belief that the non-physical essence of a living being starts a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death and transformation. It is also called rebirth or transmigration. Resurrection originally had the same meaning. It transformed into a similar process hypothesized by some ...
I received my first yo-yo on my 6th birthday. With no one in my household being able to demonstrate to me to make the yo-yo automatically return back up to me. It sat in my toy box for 4 years. It wasn’t until I was placed on bedroom house arrest for an entire summer for snapping or breaking Mrs. Margret’s favorite chicken’s neck Malcolm just the way “she’d” always demonstrated to me what she would do ...
I just hope many like reading what I mentally created.
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