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Danny Konczynski

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I Would Do Anything for Love...

Danny Konczynski

Submitted to Contest #303

I couldn’t remember ever seeing her like she was when we pulled up in front of the closed restaurant. She didn’t wait for me to come around and open the door, instead getting out and waiting for me in front of the dark storefront. We walked around to the side of the building and down the wet alley, water dripping from fire escape above us on either side of the alley from the thunderstorm which had just passed. Black garbage bags overflowed from a dumpster and a man stood by the side door just beyond it. He said something to her in Italian an...

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New Year's Day

Danny Konczynski

Submitted to Contest #282

      I walked onto the boardwalk with my little lunchbox and sat on the frigid bench. This is where it all started on New Year’s Day ten years ago. The weather was pretty much identical to what it was today. The biting wind coming off the brutally rough ocean, the waves thundering with a silvery tint against the frozen sand. The ominous gray and white sky held back the snow for just a little longer.           Ten years ago, we ran into each other while both...

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Sunsets and Tears

Danny Konczynski

Submitted to Contest #267

Cassandra and I had been together for two years, but I wanted more. So, it was time for me to start planning the next step and I knew exactly what I was going to do. And on a hot Wednesday in the middle of July, everything was in place.             “Let’s go down the shore later, walk the boardwalk and grab a cheesesteak.”           “Okay.”           We both showered, got dr...

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