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Write a story based on the song title: "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Posted in Nonfiction on Oct 26, 2022

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A Little Help

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A Little HelpIt was the right thing to do. So I was told; so I believed. Focus on my job for twenty years and it will provide for my family for life—good salary while working, good pension and benefits afterwards. Finding the discomfort of a stable job like that took several wasted years. During those years, I made many friends. Few of those would be with me far beyond the typical transient cycle of fickle friends. Though years and distance separated us, I stayed in touch with one friend from college. Support and care were obvious during our...

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With A Little Help from Friends

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"Aw, baby. I'm gonna miss you", Nneka said as she wrapped her arms around my neck to bring my head closer for a quick kiss. Garfield, her cat purred."Come on. It is not like we've never been away from each other before", I said."I know. I guess I'm just feeling this way because I'm wondering how sickly bored you'll be now that you know . . ."She trailed off. I was out of a job, and she didn't want to remind me. Even more so because she had caused it. I had a female boss, and the nature of my job was demanding so I worked late and even on wee...

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With A Little Help From My Friends

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'With A Little Help From My Friends' by Christian McCulloch (1,812 words) Alice wished me, Good morning and I wished her, Good morning back. 'May I ask you, Dr Tommy,' she said, 'why you told our distinguished visitors that we're light years away from pure Artificial Intelligence when I'm a perfect example of your breakthrough?' I told her it was complicated. It is complicated. It's not as if it's too complicated for her to understand. Goodness knows, she passed me on the intelligence scale months and months ago. It's just that I can't summo...

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The Real Christmas

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Joe was a kind boy. He used to help everyone in need. He doesn’t want anything in return. He who takes Joe’s help becomes his friend. Joe was not selfish at all. Everyone adores him. Joe has best friends- Anna, Mike and Billie. These four kids were hardworking and well behaved. It was a cool winter night. The freezing wind was blowing. Only 5 days remained for Christmas. Everybody was preparing for it. Some people were decorating their houses, some were cleaning the garbage and some were buying gifts. Joe, too, went for shopping with his fam...

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Man's Best Friend

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Jessie will never know how many times she’s saved my life. When I feel helpless, hopeless, defeated, I like to play with my gun. One night, while I was mindlessly loading and unloading my gun, she jumped up on the couch and nudged me with her cold, wet nose. So I stopped fidgeting with my gun and gave her a good head scratching. Then I loaded the gun again and began spinning it on the table like I was playing Wheel of Fortune. I wondered who would take Jessie if I were gone. Probably Kelly, my ex-wife. I took a hard swallow of bourbon. It st...

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Run!

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Victor's group drove in a large van with a fake logo on the side. Charlie sat next to Victor who drove. Charlie's heart raced at what was to come, but it was the right thing to do and he glad he had backup.He figured he would let them sort this out and he can do whatever orders he was told. He never led a group before and Victor was trusted by many. Charlie was not going to get in the way of that all because he was Jasper's picked omega.Victor had other ideas.They arrived near the supposed whore house and Victor parked in a dark alley, facin...

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NEW MOON

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“Gentlemen.”“Mornin’.” The deputy said. His son politely nodded at the waitress.“Care for coffee this morning?”“Yes. Black.” “I’ll have the same with a little cream if you got it.”“Sugar?”“No thanks, ma’am.”“I’ll be back in a hurry to get your order.”“Thanks.”“I often wonder how many times I been here in my lifetime.” The deputy said to his adult son. “Care to take a guess?” The son asked.“Hard to say. Damn near every day when I was first gettin’ started out as a junior deputy. Not so much anymore.”“Ya? Why do you think that is, da...

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Friends out of context

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“Not bad, not bad at all.”  Freddy checked the ropes for a second time just in case. He then circled the prisoner sitting in the chair, each step reverberating in the silent warehouse, till he stopped in front of him. “Well, I give up. I really don't know how to untangle this mess, and I did a seminar about escapism.”   The sound of pleased cackles (or something that sounded similar) surrounded Freddy. He smiled at the shadows and sat while he lit up a cigarette.  “When they put their head into something they really go al...

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The Beginning of the End

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It was close to 4am when the lights were flipped on and my bedroom was filled with harsh incandescent light from above.“You ruined my life,” my husband of almost ten years spat at my prone form as I blinked away all vestiges of a sweet dream and looked down the barrel of a 9mm nightmare.In the decade spent with him, I had known random periods of fear but no amounts of spending a night in our closet hiding under a pile of dirty clothes had prepared me for staring into the black tube of my mortality.His face had never looked more demonic and m...

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O'toole's

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    Sitting at her kitchen table, addressing her share of envelopes, that housed the invitations, Sally Quinn suddenly thought of that 60's Beatles song,...."I'll get by with a little help of my friends." It certainly applied to Claire Graves and her husband Howdy, in helping her to prepare for her husband's 50th birthday party. Meeting every Wednesday night at Sally's while Howdy and Jim went bowling, the two friends managed to put together Jim's half century of life celebration.    The ruse...

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More Than Friends. Forever Family

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"We've all gathered here today to celebrate our dear friend, Pat," Richard said to those gathered in his basement. It was a cozy affair with a fire crackling in the fireplace. The backdrop of windows behind the couch revealed a flurry of snowflakes.  I sat among the room full of people that had become my true family through a difficult time in my life. And it indeed was time to celebrate. Memories flooded my mind, and I grabbed hold of one of Richard. Oh, the many times he came to escort me to chemo treatments.&...

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Parent on Trial- Would You Stand Up and Walk Out on Him?

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Fred P. Raines and Romulus Valesco were roommates and varsity wrestling training partners at Western Continental University (WCU). They helped each other finish their education before Fred moved to a small town in the mid west called Hickory Leaf. Romulus married Radisha Ethridge 17 years after Fred moved.Fred and Romulus remained friends, maintaining contact for 27 years. Fred heard about a researcher position opening at his company, Scientific Aerotechnical Systems (SAS), for which Romulus would be perfect. He invited Romulus to move with ...

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The Problem Solver

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With his hands clasped together behind him, Rob paced the length of his living room while listening to his friend, Matt. They were coming up on their third hour since Matt had come to visit and laid his problem at Rob’s feet. In a shaky voice, Matt had told Rob he may have gotten a girl pregnant.  “Let us go over this again,” said Rob. This was the fourth time he had asked Matt to recount the story.           Matt had met a girl at a party hosted by his rugby team.&nb...

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Gift with nagging

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─ Come on, wrap it up! Julia was so eager that she almost jumped up and down on the couch. Elisa could feel her irritation grow. Her sister was a grownup, nearly thirty years old, not a child. She tried to push aside her thoughts but squeezed the package a little bit longer than she needed. Julia sighed.               ─ Shall we start the next round or wait for you? asked Mom. Elisa began the unwrapping. It was a little square thing as she could feel through the paper. She...

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Wild and Missing

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“Nestled in the national radio quiet zone, surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, and engulfed in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, the sleepy town of Coalburn Virginia was shaken to its core last week when a teen went missing. Oliver Ridgewell, a seventeen year old male, last seen wearing a PUP band shirt, black ripped jeans, a blue flannel, and blue converse. The teen disappeared on Monday-” Quinn couldn’t hear the tv anymore, either it was turned off or her brain was blocking it out. Oliver, one of her closest friends,...

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