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Posted in Dramatic on Sep 16, 2024

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Twilight Advanced Copying Technologies – TACT 2000

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Sue Bell                                                                                    1,295 words122 Tripp RdEllington, CT 060...

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Foe or Friend

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When someone yells "duck", one should lower his head, rather than turn around to see why he should duck! At least that is running through Doug's mind as he recalls the past few moments. Maybe he doesn't trust his classmate known as The Roach who yelled out that one word unexpectedly. Although the Roach and Doug have been classmates for almost half the school year, Doug keeps his distance from him. It was Doug's first year at a Catholic elementary school. He does not make friends easily. All his classmates have been together at the same sch...

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A Short Silk Robe

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He said, ‘I’ll love her ‘til I die.’I placed my hand upon his shiny, bald head and pushed him down into the back seat of the black and white. Goddamn husbands and their regrets.‘Save it, buddy,’ I said, and tapped the Plymouth’s roof with the flat of my hand. Fallen leaves and prickly seed pods snapped, crackled and popped under the departing wheels like a copywriter’s breakfast cereal.I took in a lung full of the crisp Autumn air, then lit a cigarette to make up for it. Somewhere between getting the call and turning up to the scene, it had ...

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Where’s mommy?

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Ever since I could remember, it was just me and my dad. My mom died when I was five. I didn’t remember much of her to be honest. My dad said she had died in a car crash and that I was with her when it happened. He said I would’ve died too but by some miracle I survived with only a scar on rhr back of my neck. That’s why we never drive anymore or go anywhere. He said that if anything happened to me he would never forgive himself. He said I looked like her alot but there were no pictures of her that I could compare myself to. We live in a...

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Hollywood Tail

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I only worked with her the one time, but we was instant friends from the start, and she’ll tell you the same.  During the days when she couldn’t face the cam’ras, when her insecur’ties et up her confidence and her fears cramped her gut so much as she found she couldn’t function prop’ly, we’d crawl under the set and she’d tell me about her life and her days before becomin’ famous. I ain’t never worked with anyone more famous than her. Sometimes Ralph and young Tommy come with us, they share a love of animals; dogs and horses mainly. Tom...

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Autumn

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Autumn is gone. It’s Wintertime. I’ve always enjoyed this time of year. The snowfall has been lighter than normal. Only a bit of dusting every once and a while. But by the midday sun, it melts into puddles then evaporates, floating off into the sky to be snow another day. Even though the weather hasn’t been bad, the town seems quieter. Like everyone else was snowed in, couldn’t get their cars out of their driveways. Or like everyone is mourning something. Why should the mourn anything? Their lives are fine. Nothing happened to them. I get we...

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Escape

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“Come on Skylar! Hurry up!”  Layla squeals at me from the bottom floor. I smile at her excitement and hurry down my stairs making sure not to trip. “I’m coming!” I yell back at her, when I finally reach the bottom I see Layla standing there with a smile on her face, her blonde hair cascading down her shoulders. “You're very slow at getting ready,” Layla laughs, I roll my eyes at her comment. “Whatever, let's just go I'm getting sick of waiting,” I grumble, Layla grabs my hand and drags me out of my house, she had come over to get ready ...

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This Is No Skyfall

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The days were sunny. Sunflowers looking towards the sun showed all was well with the world and God was right up there in the heaven above. Good Papa George stretched his arms out like a bear, looking over the sands onto the distant sea waters. O for a ship to sail by! He adjusted his binoculars.But there was something nagging him real bad. He had started on this rant exactly three weeks earlier. As he grew in age and wisdom or something of that sort, his rants became more pronounced.There were some major issues at work he had to deal with a...

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Just Sayin'

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    “Bless me Father for I have sinned. It’s been sixty-five years since my last confession and”      “Excuse me, did you say sixty-five years?”      “I did, Father”      “Guess we’re going to be here for a while, eh?”      “Don’t think so. I’ve led a boring life.”      “Why so long away, son?”       “Please don’t call me son. I’m older tha...

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A Desert Twist

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“You never told me what you did before the draft,” Johnny said. The light from the flames danced over his face. “What does it matter, whoever that was I ain’t no more”. Charlie replied, biting off a piece of jerky, and stared into the fire. His eyes were distant. Johnny leaned back on his hands, crossed his legs, and looked up at the starry sky. Around them the Nevada desert engulfed them, dry, desolate yet inviting strangely. It attracted the dreamer, the lost, and the searching to its vast expanse. “Come, cross me and fortune awaits on the...

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Kitty

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Thomas turns his book over on his knee and puts the spectacles he can no longer read without to one side. He is sitting in his favourite rocking chair in a cosy corner of the lounge surrounded by piles of  books and sheets of piano music. The late morning sunshine beams through the open French doors and he can smell the aroma of sweet pink dog roses. His younger brother George is digging over a new flower bed in the garden of the Cheshire home they share. Thomas gently strokes his long white beard, watches George break up the soil ...

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Embracing the Unexpected

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Sarah stepped out onto the balcony of her small flat, a glass of wine in her hand, and savoured the balmy summer evening. What was it that drew her outside on this particular night?Perhaps she was looking for the gentle caress of a cooling breeze on her flushed cheeks. Or maybe she longed to bask in the glow of the rising stars and savour their soft radiance to calm her restless mind.More likely, however, it was the distant whisper of a male voice that lured her outdoors. She leaned against the metal railing and sipped her wine as she strain...

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The Hypnotic Garden

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Entry 1, Aug 1, 17 yrs old.There is a legend I have known since I was a little girl about a magical garden. A garden that, if given the care and affection it required, would, in turn, take care of you and give you beautiful gifts in return. My mother told me it was a place of beauty, and anyone who found their way there would go into a trance and stay for hours. She never told me about the gifts it offered, those I about when I eavesdropped on her conversations with friends. Unfortunately, my mother passed away years ago, and with her went t...

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Secrets to riches

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Billboards flash and newspapers all over have the same topic. They’re here to talk about Juliet Wilhem and her rise to fame. In 5 years she had gone from an unheard-of woman to one of the richest people in the world. Now, on the anniversary of her success, she was preparing to sign a deal with an entrepreneur with an idea she insisted stay undisclosed. Curiosity was sparked in the minds and hearts, and news reporters swarmed around this remarkable lady as soon as she stepped out of her limo.If only they knew about all the choices she had mad...

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The Bag Lady

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The Bag Lady The little old lady gingerly stepped off the curb, her capacious bag banging against the other pedestrians’ knees as they tried to cross the busy street. The tall, gaunt stranger leaned down and said, “Hey ‘mom’, can I give you a hand with that? It looks awfully heavy.” She looked up at him, her tired face transformed by the most angelic smile---and those eyes...large deep-set hazel eyes. Reminded one of an innocent calf and had the most disconcerting affect on a person. He could tell from a glance that she must have...

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