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Shilo Hood

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What Happens at 3 O’clock Stays at 3 O’clock

Shilo Hood

Submitted to Contest #297

It’s three o’clock in the morning and Hope Carter is where she is every morning that she plans to make her famous peach pie. A couple of years ago Hope’s mother, Patience, had finally told her the secret to her famous peach pie. Hope had been begging her mother for years so she was extremely excited when her mother finally agreed to let her in on the family secret. As she is baking now she recalls the day it finally happened. Hope had been in her mid-twenties then and had longed to be able to make her mother’s famous peach pie. For as...

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The Writer’s New Pen

Shilo Hood

Submitted to Contest #295

Sammie has been writing for as long as she can remember but has yet to take the next step to get her work out to the masses. That all changes one day while she is wandering around a new bookstore she found in town. The day had begun cloudy and rainy as it sometimes does in the spring and Sammie likes nothing better than wandering around a bookstore when it’s raining and gloomy outside. There’s just something magical about a bookstore especially on gloomy days whether it’s raining or snowing. This store, simply called “Daydreams”, seems e...

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In An Instant

Shilo Hood

Submitted to Contest #291

When Sidra wakes she appears to be in a very dark and dank room surrounded by what or who she does not know. She can hear very soft, very muffled noises that sound vaguely to her like whispers but no matter how hard she tries she cannot hear the noises any better nor can she see well enough to distinguish anything about her surroundings. To make matters somewhat worse she doesn't know how long she has been here nor does she remember how she got here either. She is completely disoriented by the darkness. So she does all sh...

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From Our First Kiss to Our Last

Shilo Hood

Submitted to Contest #290

My Dearest Love, It seems like a lifetime ago that we met. We had been so young and so carefree. Now as it often does, life has taken its toll on us both. That first moment though was wonderful and awkward all at the same time. We were innocent then of the ways of men and women. Innocent of so very many things but we have learned together. We shared a lot of firsts together from the first time we held hands until the first time we had a child. One of my most precious memories though is of our first kiss. I don’t...

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