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Submitted to Contest #61
Scents or aromas, it is said, can be one of the strongest links to memories that doctors know of. How many times have you walked into a house or store and smelled something and then instantly recall a long past childhood memory or even a few months past? More times than you care to remember I’m sure. It has happened to me on more than a hundred occasions. This story is about one of those times. Although it is made up for me; There will no doubt be someone who reads this and finds him or herself remembering their past loved ones. Peter and ...
Submitted to Contest #59
Sarah was jolted from her sleep by the blare of her alarm clock. She rolled out of bed and padded towards the bathroom. After showering and getting dressed, she made breakfast, sat down and turned on the news. More of the same old shit! She just shook her head and ate. The only saving grace, in her eye, was that it was Friday and in eight hours she would own the weekend. She took the bus into work, at least today it seemed less crowded. She did her work proficiently, talked with Sally and Jack during lunch and when q...
Submitted to Contest #58
Charles Harding Chadwick, eighty five years young, had lived a long and wonderful life. He had three beautiful daughters that had brought him nothing but joy and happiness throughout his life. He had watched as his wife of sixty years slipped through his grasp five years ago last June. Barbara Ann would have been eighty four next month but cancer stole her sweet innocent life and now it seems that the insidious bastard wanted Charles’s too. Karen, the youngest sibling was sixty three and lived only a mile from...
Roger was usually a very calm person until the evening of the electrical storm. He had lived in his apartment complex going on four years now. Becky had lived at the apartment complex for going on ten years now. Becky was vibrant and very beautiful at forty five and Roger, who was just twenty five, found her to be very captivating. She was always way to friendly he thought whenever they would meet in the elevator or in the laundry room in the basement of the building. Roger never tried to ask her for a date or anything because of the differe...
Sierra was up watching Saturday morning cartoons before her older sister, Michelle and parents even woke up. Sierra was just four and her older sister, thirteen. Rachel, their mother rolled her legs out of bed and then she swatted Charlie’s ass and reminded him that he had promised the girls that he would take them to the museum after lunch. She got up to start breakfast. Charlie yawned as he stretched and then he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back into bed. He rolled on top of her pinning her down and started kissing her neck. “S...
Submitted to Contest #57
Paul was a Firefighter in nineteen eighty nine. He joined the local Volunteer Fire Department in his home town of Horton after graduating high school. He was the youngest man on the Department at just eighteen. The average age of his fellow firefighters was around thirty with some in their fifties. As the youngest and the newest, he was often tasked with the grunt work. While not glamorous, it was essential and he did his job without fail. He admired his brothers and gained a vast store house of knowledge by watching their actions. and liste...
Submitted to Contest #56
Sharon was cleaning up the girl’s locker room after the basketball game when she heard noises coming from the equipment room. She slipped around quietly until she could see what it was that was making the noise. What she saw, shocked her. She saw Veronica Tipton, the richest girl in school. She was standing in the trash cart in a large heavy duty black trash bag. Sharon watched as Veronica dumped a half full garbage can in on top of her. Veronica sat down, wriggled around and then pulled the top in and twisted it shut. She watched as Veronic...
Carol was a good looking woman and at fourty she was tired of going home to an empty house. Her best friend Sandy was continuously trying to hook her up. She would go on the obligatory blind date and sometimes she would date them for a few weeks but they would eventually end up breaking up. “Hey Carol, you and Frank want to come with me and Joe to Mary and Dan’s wedding next month?” Sandy asked one day after work. “We’re not seeing each other anymore,” She replied as they made their way out to their cars. “Jeez Carol. Let them ge...
Submitted to Contest #55
When Christopher was born, Maggie could stop having children as her husband, Bill, finally got the son he wanted. His two big sisters, Kelly and Sally, couldn’t wait until Mom brought home their new baby brother. But one thing the doctors failed to mention was that Christopher was really a Christine. They took their new son home and the girls just loved him immediately. They helped their mother care for him. Kelly was five and Sally was four when baby Christopher was born. They quickly learned how to diaper and feed him. To them, he was th...
Submitted to Contest #54
This isn't exactly as ordered but I hope you like it anyway. It was the first day of the first grade for Patty. She was an outgoing little girl who desperately wanted to make new friends. But her family was considered off limits. She did not have any friends going through kindergarten.It was the first day of the first grade for Dave. His family had moved from a big city of over one hundred thousand to this small rural town of less than five hundred. He was a new kid in a new school and looking to make new friends.It was lunch time and e...
Submitted to Contest #53
Peggy met Peter at the New Years eve party at OMally's Pub and Grill, and they fell in love instantly. If ever there were a case of love at first, this was it. They both had turned twenty one just weeks apart. They dated voraciously. Peter was Yin to Peggy’s Yang. At any given weekend they could be seen hanging out together, either at OMally’s or some other venue. They planned a Halloween wedding, costumes optional but looked forward too. Everything was on track for a wonderful Summer. Then it happened, Covid nineteen. Their Summer of ...
David woke up at seven am and he knew instantly that today wasn’t going to be any different from yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that. In fact, David would learn, today was going to be even worse than the past thirteen days. The temperature was already ninety degrees. He got up and took a cold shower. Cold was not really the right term as the water coming from the tap and shower was nearly eighty degrees. He washed his hair and basically rinsed off the sweat from last night, and then he got dressed for the day. Cotton underwe...
When Cheryl graduated from high school her father, Paul, let her keep the old Plymouth Duster that she had driven to school from time to time. Cheryl planned on going to college in the fall and her boyfriend, Steve, had received a full scholarship in baseball. She was heading to State but he was heading for a university half way across the country. And to make matters worse. The Summer hit hard and fast. By graduation, at the end of May, the temperature was already topping ninety degrees. “Hey honey. Your father and I are planning on goi...
Submitted to Contest #52
Ted met June when they both started kindergarten. You see, they lived on the same block, right next door to one another. They would go to each others birthday parties. They were friends but never dated in school. It was during their second year of college when June was invited to go to a frat party and she wanted an escort. She asked her long time friend Tom if he would go with her. He wasn't doing anything that night anyway so he told her that he would go with her. She felt better knowing that her long time childhood friend had her back. It...
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