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Submitted to Contest #61
perrybaker316@yahoo.com The Smells of Coney Island By Perry Baker Boom! Went the sound of the howitzer. Boom, Boom, Boom. Machine guns blasting and hand grenades exploding. What an exciting movie. I loved war movies. Especially movies of the Vietnam war. I was sitting in the Marlboro movie theater with my dad Rocco. This theater was located on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn, USA. My dad, who was eighty five years old, and I, who was sixty years old, loved to go to t...
Submitted to Contest #60
Perry Baker perrybaker316@yahoo.com Roxanne and the Viral Pandemic The date: April 23, 2354 Location Fort Santiago Space Complex , Manila, Philippines. βHello Tim honey, don't worry about me, I'm fine. I am just walking in the space lab's garden thinking things through and watching the rioters at the front gate.,β Roxanne said. βI Just wanted to say I love you and please be careful. Don't forget to stay away from others. You don't want to catch the virus,β I said. βWhere are you now, exactly?β Ro...
Submitted to Contest #59
Perry Baker perrybaker316@yahoo.com Augie in Platskill βSo where are we headed Frankie?β grandpa asked. I'm not sure, I figured we just drive until we found a nice town to stop in for a few days,β I replied. You want to do a little skiing while where up here in the Catskill mountains, right?β grandpa asked. βSure do gramps, I have all my equipment and I am raring to go.β We were driving on I 95 north for three hours. We passed New Paultz and Kingston. I turned west at Kingston and took ro...
Submitted to Contest #58
Perry Baker perrybaker316@yahoo.com Camping with Elvin Jr. The sky darkened; it was an ominous purple. Thirteen year old Elvin Jr. was sitting on the swinging porch bench with his twin sister Maggy. βWe got a storm brewing,β said a concerned Maggy, with her red hair swaying in the wind. βSure looks like it, I replied confidently, without a worry in the world. You see, my sister is a worry wort. A darkening sky, a bee sting, a coyote sighting are just a few of the things that torment my sis. My sister is ...
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