Richard Hawkins

“Too Much in common” by Richard Hawkins

I grew up in a small town with a lot of party hardy families. We have parties for everything. Coming home parties. Going away parties, promotion parties, retirement parties, coming of age parties, going into the service parties, getting out of the service parties, church parties, hobby parties and just about anything you can think of there is a party every weekend. I do not know what started all the parties but, It was the greatest place on earth to grow up. While the adults did there thing the kids of different ages did there own things. Wh...

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“At the end of the day” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #99

The sun was setting in the Guadalupe mountains the last rays hiding behind the majestic landscape seam to be the a fitting end to a hard days work. I can now write the stories that will lead those with a since of adventure to fortunes beyond belief. I am free of all my worldly possessions. No longer a hoarder. No longer burden with anything that will hold me in one spot, This is my storyI had become a very rich man. A modern day robin hood. My profession as a vice cop gave me the insight in how to play both sides. I would start wars between ...

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“More than a feeling” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #99

I have a belief that music contains it own place in each persons life. I am not a musician. I can not sing. Never the less music has a place in my heart. I have worship with it and came closer to a unseen God that any other time. I have mourn losses with it. Learn to heal with it. I was not able to understand someone point of view I could ask them to tell me what music they like and find my way into the windows of there soul. I am a healer and this is my story.A very long time ago there was a person who show me how to heal.This lady was the ...

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“Place of my own never alone” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #97

Celebrating my 77th birthday I announce to my children I would be selling my home and downsizing to a small cottage near the lake. More than a little shocked knowing all the great memories I had here it went over well Well for my children anyway). My daughter Anne tried to sell me on the ideal of cohabiting with her but, I knew it would be a burden. The busiest person on the planet trying to make me fill needed. My Son Tim asking if I had ran out of retirement money. Not at all. I had lived here longer than any place. Twenty five years. ...

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“Plans for my future” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #95

If you are like most people. Your parents had plans for your future. My parents planned not only my future but every step of the way. I was not a rebellious child I would conform to what I was told and accepted my parents guild to everything I did. The problem with that is when it is time to decide for yourself. I felt like I had been a robot programmed to do only what my parents deem acceptable. We belong to a tribe. The wisdom of our elders is cherished above any outside knowledge. Our Chief is very old but still in sound mind and body. ...

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“I won the powerball lotto” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #93

Just because someone gave you the winning numbers does not mean you didn't win said my sister Jane. There are 100 people showing up to celebrate with you. You have to come for there sake.The truth is I don't want a party. I am not even sure I want to be rich. I am still in disbelief. It was just another week until now. I went to my favorite store for coffee and to talk with the old Arab who runs the store just like I do every week. Akeem is the smartest man I have ever met. His heart is as big as the moon. A man of peace who understands huma...

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“Those who take the leftovers” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #93

My cell phone rings and I see it is Darby calling me. Hello I say what up old friend? Darby says Mike I need you to bring your van around to the hotel we have got a clean up job and I need Big Bertha to get all the food over to the homeless shelter now. OK I say let me get my shoes on. I be there in about 10 minutes. This is what we do for fun Darby and Me. Our motto is we recycle everything. I run a underground clean up service. What I mean is off the books. No record of use coming or going. We hire only people for cash and when asked we ar...

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“Showing up for my friends” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #93

I will go with you to show you I support your cause but,I want nothing to do with this roast. That is how all this got started.So you are thinking maybe I am not one for a party. Not true.I love parties and I love to talk. What I don't like is making fun of people or offending others. This was a roast for a man who had been my mentor for years. I really didn't want to watch others make fun of him. He was a good man who supported helping others above everything else in life. So how could a gathering of friends get together and make fun of him...

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“The right stuff gone wrong” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #93

It was our Senior year of high school the moment we had all been looking forward to all of our lives it seamed. Plans had been made for the biggest party in the history of our class. It was costing everybody just about everything we could come up with. The whole class had to beg borrow and steal to make it happen. The place we rented was a abandon warehouse to have the after graduation party. After spending a month setting it up to be the perfect party. This was to be the perfect planned event. We even used the money that was meant for our s...

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“Red touches yellow” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #93

I love to drive. I spend most of my day driving the same route back and forth. I still like it because it takes me thought the countryside and you can see the changes in the seasons. There are all kinds of festivals in the small towns I go though but, I never seem to stop.Today is the day I change that forever. I have decided to follow a new route and I am going to what ever festival I find. It is spring time. Cool mornings and warm days are here.So the very first festival I find is a reptile festival. I like nature and hike on a regular bas...

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“Astral Projection” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #91

I use to considered myself a Logic base typical Male agnostic human. The only spirit I believed in was straight out of a bottle. That is until I got prostate cancer and went looking for a cure on my own. This is where my journey begins.I was at a downtown book store for rare and unusual books.I came across a book called healing from the inside out published in the early 1900's. There was no authors name and the first few pages claim it was a textbook for New York's Astral realm College.I had no idea what kind of college this was but, I was s...

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“Bruce never tells the truth” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #88

I live in Texas and there is a saying in Texas. I rather climb a tree and tell you a lie than stand on the ground and tell you the truth. Most of my friend and family were good about making more of a story than was really there. With Bruce not even the story he was telling would be his own. Every one in town knew Bruce He was the guy who reused everybody stories and by the time you heard it again it was Bruce in the center of all the action. The one thing that Bruce could not make up was his height standing only 5 foot 4 inches and hundred t...

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“Peripheral Isabel you can almost see ” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #87

We have all done it. Walk into a room and caught something crossing our path with the corner of our eye and never sure what it was. This is Isabel. A pixie who can change her size in a flash. She can flood the room with a flash to escape or shrink to the size of a mouse and hide behind a blade of grass outside. The reason you can not see her is because she can bend light around her like a prism. She will come to you when you are alone and play tricks on you to keep you guessing where she is. A playful heart who hates sadness and self pity. I...

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“Stop talking and listen” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #86

Have lunch with me she said. That how it started and the way it has been ever since we were in school. Brenda was not like most teenage girls. despite being attractive and approachable she had no boyfriends and only a few close girlfriends. I was the school stoner who only noted quality was having the best weed. Brenda didn't smoke weed at all. We had history together right after lunch. Returning from lunch I was usually enjoying my high from the activities during lunch. I had a running joke with her asking for sex. Always got the same answe...

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“It was clear as a Bell” by Richard Hawkins

Submitted to Contest #83

Trying to breath as light as a feather knowing my air supply is just about out. I look at my watch and slowly ascend to the top of the water. I raise my hand out of the water with a pure gold cross tightly held as I emerge from the water. The first sounds I hear is the cheering of everyone on our dive boat. I rip off my mask to breath real air again. I pass the cross to one crewmate and then remove my tanks and passed them onto the boat. I climb aboard the boat and said there is more a lot more. Is it a ship ask The captain. I can't tell loo...

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