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Submitted to Contest #286
Billy was very excited. Three weeks until Christmas and he had just bought the engagement ring for Candace. It was going to be his first Christmas in San Francisco. He had wrapped up his first year as a salesman in IBM's Data Processing Division (DPD) division with a huge order from Kaiser. He was giddy with pride. Candace was the prime systems engineer on the PG&E account. She worked with him on configuring the two systems. She was very artistic and together they developed a great flip chart presentation. They had reviewed it with the R...
Submitted to Contest #282
“Ow!” “Oh my gosh, I’m sorry. Please excuse me, I was in such a hurry and kind of out of it. Please accept my sincere apologies.” The most beautiful woman Brad had ever seen was holding his arms and smiling straight into his face God, what a beauty, I am going to buckle up and talk to her. “God bodkins, no worries. Let my catch my breath, you are so beautiful.” Brad was dazzled. “Well, thank you, Brad. It is Brad isn't it? Such a strong, good name. Gracious.” Brad was suddenly sputtering and found it hard to put together a recognizable ...
Submitted to Contest #280
Sexual encounter Hi, I really like your dress. Oh yeah. Are you a dress maker? A designer A playboy? What? None of the above. I’m just a guy with an eye. Aha. I am going to let that one ride. Thank you for the compliment. Have a nice day. Wait. I have more. You’re beautiful, I can tell you are quite intelligent. Clearly you dress and I noticed that you are an elegant walker. And I can leap over tall buildings in a single bounce. God man, are you obtuse or what? Well, look, it’s not my fault that you are so beautiful. I just...
Submitted to Contest #273
Watch Your Back I had been following Christine Manning for almost a year and had seen many, many things. She was a spy working for the Iranian government. I have yet to understand why.She seems to like Iranian men were in great favor based on all of her trysts. Of course, they like her. She "entertains" frequently, but I have fallen in love with her. It's really an unfair twist of fate, but there you have it. Then, one day, when I went to my usual intercept spot there was no Christine. I spent the whole day going...
Submitted to Contest #251
Shirley grabbed Monty by the shoulders and yelled, ”Monty, you have to at least look at this. In five different vampire novels there is a vampire named Grior who drains the blood of a girl named Shirley. The authors are German, American, French, Czech, and Dutch. I have contacted all of the authors and they don’t know each other. Hell, they were unaware of each other.” Monty lolled his eyes and said “Good grief Shirley, you are really paranoid---or stupid. Do you think some vampire is trolling you? Let me ask you, do you actually believe in ...
Submitted to Contest #250
Bouncing Ball “Jimmy, Jimmy, get over here. Sit here with Mom, Terry and me and watch this incredible sunset. Of course, Jimmy being 17 and a senior in high school, had little interest in the sunset. He was too busy trying to catch a fish with his hands in the fast-moving little stream next to the cabin on Pike’s Peak. It was the last day of their vacation and he still had not caught a fish. He didn’t want to spend time with his little sister who was blind, but heard everything Terrence and Marlene were sitting comfortably in the lawn chairs...
Submitted to Contest #242
“I always thought that museum in the weird little building at the end of Harrison Street was odd, more than unusual, but it displayed incredible art. Masters all. I told my friends about it constantly but they could never find it. That used to make me so angry. I would rant and rave, jump up and down, wave my arms and beat my chest, but I would not take them there. It was ridiculous. They should just drive right to it and they were running a con on me. Hell with them.” Monet, DaVinci, Manet, van Gogh, Rembrandt, Gaugin, Picasso, D...
Submitted to Contest #238
(This story contains one sexual episode) Very early in the morning, Susan walked down to the lake’s edge to watch the ducks. Gentle light drifted above still, calm water. Mirror like, the lake reflected the great green forest that surrounded it. All was peace. Except Susan. Susan stood bathed in grief and sadness. Marianne was so close to dying now with her unique form of cancer, uncurable even untreatable. Fortunately, she was not experiencing much pain. It was a blood cancer that after about four to six weeks jus...
Submitted to Contest #234
George was sweating and it was 11:30 on Christmas Eve. The Devil was coming for him at midnight thanks to a difficult deal he cut early in the year. His sweet, beloved daughter was dying of an incurable form of cancer. A desperate man, George begged the Devil to save his daughter’s life and the Devil agreed—on one condition. George would kill one other person to take his daughter’s place by Christmas Day. The Devil thought that was quite fair as he was giving George almost a year to pay his debt. “Quite fair,” said the Devil. The problem ...
Submitted to Contest #232
It’s been a long time since I was born and I have been thinking a lot about that life I have lived.There are some issues. I received an invitation to attend a self-reflective seminar all the way up in Alaska, Denali Lodge in fact. Sounded like a great idea. Denali, snow, isolation and focus. Maybe I would learn something. I’m going. I was late. My plane had been delayed at the Seattle International Airport for several hours and we arrived in Anchorage around 7:30—dead of winter. I rushed to the rental car counter and picked up a really nice...
Submitted to Contest #216
Raging RiverRalph Emery BarhydtSeptember 21, 2023Caroline went down to the river to pray. The river was raging, roaring, rushing as she had never seen it. “Dear God, please come to our aid. Calm the river, restore it. Please make it gentle and helpful again. Please Lord, this is too much and I am afraid that it is going to get worse.”Hurricane Albert was just sitting off the North Carolina coast. It was a category five storm and ferocious. It was a strange hurricane as it had made land fall in Northern Florida and Southern South Carolina, th...
Submitted to Contest #215
The Devil is in the Deal Ralph Emery Barhydt September 15, 2023 “Jenna, please, don’t do this,” Gary was on the verge of tears. In fact, he was crying. He had been up all night and was exhausted, he looked like hell. Jenna didn’t look so good either. They were in their marvelous suite at a five star hotel on Tahiti. They weren’t really rich, they had just saved up a lot of money for that special vacation. They had flown to Tahiti in first class with upgrades from all of Jenna’s work traveling and Gary had tucked away a stunning, bril...
Submitted to Contest #214
A Vacation to Die For Ralph Emery Barhydt "Woo hooo," yelled Karen. "Vacation time! Where are we going this year?" Karen had walked in from school, the last day of the school year, thrown her books on the floor and broke into the biggest smile you ever saw. Stanley, her younger brother had been napping on the couch and jumped about a foot. Sean, her older brother walked in right behind her also carrying a huge smile. "Yes," he exclaimed. "Barcelona!" Can you believe it. Barcelona, the east coast of Spain, probably some time in Gi...
Submitted to Contest #211
Jessica the Librarian By Ralph Barhydt Jessica was such a beautiful, warm, well-meaning young woman. If I had been a lot younger and if she weren’t engaged, I might have asked her out. What I did ask her to do is find this ancient text of witchcraft that focused on spells. I had solid evidence that it was resting in this particular library. Of course, with a book like this there is always talk that “oh, ooh, ah, the book is alive.” Right. Makes it a lot more interesting. “Jessica, I am looking for an old book, maybe ancient actually, ...
Submitted to Contest #208
Little Guy Ralph Barhydt “C’mon Aaron, give the kid a chance. He’s little but I seen him run and there is no one faster on this team.” “Look Matt, I just don’t like shrimps. The kid is a shrimp. He’ll get hurt, his parents will be a problem and he will always be whining about something. Plus, frankly, I just don’t like little people. They are worse than blacks and blacks are bad enough, although that one boy can sure throw the ball.” “Aaron, man, you are way out of line. This is little league baseball. These kids are in the seventh gr...
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