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Submitted to Contest #296
The age difference was there, some thirty-five years. She was young, innocent, more than a bit naïve. I, while not chronologically old, had seen enough of the world to know it was not all rainbows and butterflies. Yet, our love, our devotion to each other, grew and remained for many, many years.A friend had introduced me to her. He had originally bought her for his daughter, but it turned out she was allergic to cats, so the cat needed a new home. He asked me if I wanted her.I was ambivalent. I was not a cat person, preferring the bumbling a...
Submitted to Contest #265
Following story contains a scene of hunting and killing an animal and also parental mental abuse He knew the forest well. He’d grown up in a village just at its edge and, as a boy, considered the forest his playground, his friend, his teacher. He learned the forest was itself a village in which the trees did not live solitary lives but communicated with and nourished each other. He learned that everything in the forest was part of that village as well. Birds, bugs, earth itself lived by and for each other. He learned you could hold a honeybe...
Submitted to Contest #263
Lois, I’m worried about the boy.” “Why’s that honey?” “Well, yesterday he flew down to stop a runaway train, and he couldn’t do it.” “What do you mean?,” said Lois. “He just couldn’t stop it....
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