Bob Menaces

“The underground concierge” by Bob Menaces

“Do you have sun Tzu’s art of war for sale?” a customer asked Doug at his bookshop. Nobody would have believed that someone with the history he has would be selling books now. “He answered no” to the customer. Someone just came in an hour ago and grabbed the last one. This made him a little concerned as this was the third person who came into the shop and asked for that book. As normally it wouldn’t draw concern but the t...

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“Twins” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #100

Have you ever heard of twins sharing everything? What about them sharing each other’s thoughts? This story doesn’t have anything to do with that but it’s nice to wonder about the different possibilities that could happen if it did. Could you imagine if twin females did share a boyfriend and didn’t know about it? That would be hard as twins are known to tell their counterpart everything unless they are male twins as guys a...

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“The unlikely historian” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #80

Usually when he took the bus Cliff would be sitting in the middle beside Rosa. This was the 1950’s so segregation was still a thing. Normally when someone black would sit in the front of the bus the bus driver would immediately tell them to move to towards the back. Rosa and Cliff were friends for years and she would always have fresh baked muffins for him to try as she would create different flavors such as; oatmeal rais...

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“The blizzard that revealed” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #77

“Being stuck at the workplace during a blizzard is no joke. Many things can occur; your children could go crazy being home alone and go through your things in your room and find your hidden stash of cannabis, they could find your adult toys that you have hidden in your closet in a shoe box, or they could destroy the house trying to get warm. One can only pray they don’t start a fire”. Debra said this to Wendy as if it had...

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“Experiment of time” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #74

He awoke in a cell, clothes were half torn. His shirt was dirty with mud all over, jeans had holes in the leg areas as if he was attacked by a few dogs. This cell has a small bed with thin sheets and a soft, medium sized blanket. Its walls were thin as he could hear a few other people but he started to wonder where he was and how he got there. He has a watch that is cracked and as the hands started to slowly turn he reali...

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“The proposal” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #73

Barbara lives in the state of Wisconsin. She lives in a small city of about 4,000 people. Barbara has been in a 5 year relationship with John and had hoped he would have proposed by now. When they first met they were in their sophomore year of college and both were majoring in biology. It’s weird they met because if you knew them before they got together they were not two people who would seemingly meet. John hung around guys who were party goers and Barbara was the life of the party. Many thought Barbara was prom...

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“The tragedy in Idaho” by Bob Menaces

Submitted to Contest #70

Somewhere in the middle of Idaho lived a boy and his mother. Next door lived his best friend who had a military father. The boy and his mother moved to Idaho from Missouri a few years ago because his mother got a job at one of the best lawyer firms in the Midwest. When they moved in he met Jeff who was around the same age as him and helped them load their boxes off their truck. Luke was ecstatic that he made a friend so s...

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