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Because He Lives

Submitted to Contest #244

Because He LivesMarch 31, 2024I received a picture today. I immediately shared it with all my relatives and contacts on my social media page. It had already been recognized as a viral photograph. If any photo qualified to deserve to be repeated enough times to be considered viral this one most certainly does. It sends a vital and timeless message.Simple and understated the scene speaks volumes. The mostly sepia colored photo depicts a view from inside a cave-like entrance looking back out towards the early morning sunrise. To the lower left ...

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Be Profitable & Multiply

Submitted to Contest #243

"Trust me,” the Creator said. “Be fruitful and multiply. Exercise the gifts, skills, and abilities I gave you. Don’t sit on them." Having heard the Creator’s mandate, the three cohorts met to discuss The Entrepreneur’s dilemma but the meeting soon turned contentious as each one argued about who was the greatest and most important to The Entrepreneur. Each one wanted to have the best seat in The Entrepreneur’s business. The first cohort stated its case. “Well, I capitalize on The Entrepreneur’s creativity so that it has first-mover advan...

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The General's Freedom

Submitted to Contest #243

General Tenebris had once gazed upon the faces of thousands of fearful humans as he lowered their star-spangled flag and raised up his own empire’s banner. But now, all he could do was stare at the large crack in the yellowed popcorn ceiling above him.  January first was when he had been bedridden. He had been drilling some fresh new troops in a little suburban town, when he had started to feel light-headed. He had returned to his hotel room to get some rest, and, three months later, had never stepped foot out of that hotel room. Anytim...

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Dragonfly

Submitted to Contest #243

“Dragonfly come in, Dragonfly we read catastrophic failures in the crew deck, propulsion, life support, and guidance, do you read?” The crackly voice asks.Mission control has lost communication only a week after leaving the lunar surface on its way to Mars. The first manned rocket with solar sails that give it the look of a Dragonfly had performed flawlessly on numerous missions, until now. Sirens blare, and warnings sound. Inside the ship, debris floats aimlessly here and there bumping into panels and a member of the crew floats motionless ...

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This Tale Continues....

Submitted to Contest #243

So, Easter in Jerusalem was cancelled. Time was different here. It was really a typical sign of the times. Democracy was failing, freedoms were falling. This tale required unique attention, as the battle ahead threatened all life with total annihilation. Hexual One was gathering his scarily ordinary human tribes. They allowed their characters to absorb the dark side of midnight. Conflicts swirled around hot spots on the never tranquil planet. No one on Earth could predict the hour or day for anything. Not one soul alive could see into the mu...

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Aliens on the Mend

Submitted to Contest #243

Aliens on the MendI did not grow up in Roswell, NM. I was not enticed by the alien aura that permeates the atmosphere of this fine town. I am a guy who needs visual evidence to support any theories or special scientific mumbo-jumbo. Many years ago, I bought a few remote, parcels of land throughout Chaves County. My hook was farming. Farming peppers (hot, and I mean hot like ghost peppers). Sounds strange, but I had this sixth sense that peppers would become popular in the coming age with all this “culinary finessed” eating. So, I moved my hu...

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Look With Your Heart

Submitted to Contest #242

Charles walked into the museum slowly, shuffling with his polished hardwood cane. He looked around and frowned.  Kids? He thought in disgust, looking at a family with three young children. Who on earth brings kids to an art museum!? Those inconsiderate, selfish people. They’ll ruin it for the rest of us! Charles, a longtime fan of the arts, (more accurately, a professional fan of the arts), knew that only the most refined, dignified, educated person could enjoy them. Having two PhD’s on the subject, he knew what art was. He kn...

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“The Obstacle or The Opportunity…You Decide”

Submitted to Contest #241

“Remember, you are still free to choose. You can accept My help or not. I gave you free will when I created you. You decide.” said the Creator. Without giving it another thought, The Entrepreneur accepted the Creator’s help. “Good. Now leave your doubts, your fears and your ‘I cant’s’ and go establish the business I will show you,” said the Creator. “If you follow My instructions, I will make you into a great entrepreneur and will reward you. I will make your business great and you will be successful. Have faith.” The Entrepreneur took hee...

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The Epic Betrayal

Submitted to Contest #241

Even now, when I’m staring at the face of death, I still find myself reminiscing on those marvelous years in my youth when Jeshua walked among us, and because of him, I have no fear of what’s to come. Too few years we have been together and so many years we’ve been apart. Soon we will be rejoined for eternity.During the time we’ve spent together, there were joyous times, as well as the miraculous times we shared during Jeshua’s ministry. From the time I left Magdala until that horrid day in Jerusalem, I was always by his side and when he die...

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Bliźni

Submitted to Contest #241

Content warning: Murder during WWII, including murder of children Greed is a powerful motivator. It has been working on Włodzimierz Leś, a member of the Blue Police, for a year.A year ago, he agreed to bring six Jews, Saul Szall, Saul’s wife, and their four sons, Baruch, Mechel, Joachim, and Mojzesz, from Łańcut to Markowa. The Szall family’s aim was to evade the occupying German forces, and they had entrusted their lives to Leś. It was easier for Jews to go into hiding in cities. In small villages, everyone knew everyone else, and it was al...

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Was It Love or Was It...

Submitted to Contest #241

According to Wikipedia, betrayal is defined as “the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals.”  Is this a story of betrayal or the story of a mother wanting to save the life of her son? You be the judge.  At the age of five, I trailed behind a group of individuals, accompanied by my mom and the evil person she had married. We were entering what would be my new residence. I had been removed from my home because of th...

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Abby and the Fugitives

Submitted to Contest #241

Abagail sought solace in her sitting room and worried over the latest servant foible. Likely, her husband, Nabal, would hear about it, overreact, and explode. She sighed and thought about the many dramas she had averted by intervening in the nick of time. Her husband behaved like a wild bull in a field of wheat, for the most part. He had never suspected any betrayal on her part to date.She asked one of her maids to give the servant a signed letter, which provided an out. Permission for him to immediately ‘visit a sick mother’ in his hometown...

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Coffee Stained.

Submitted to Contest #241

“Control yourself.” Bells rung outside, the church’s procession beginning amidst the graveyard, “Myself? What about all of you? You said you loved me. You promised.” “Of course I love you! You believe your own mother and father don’t love you? You’re nothing but selfish! We love you; we do not love this ‘problem-child’ you’re choosing to be.” “You love an idealised version!” His hand struck out and caught the cup on the table, smashing the coffee against the wall. His father’s eyes flickered with anger, but Martin’s ...

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The Saltwater Note

Submitted to Contest #240

Kayliegh was jogging down the beach, her long strawberry blonde ponytail was dancing in the wind, somehow glowing, even more beautiful than usual in the sunrise’s bright orange and red hues. Her tan skin, dotted with brown freckles, not too many, but just the perfect ratio of tan to brown was warm to the touch. She slowed to a stroll and smiled, looking down at her arm remembering how her gram would always trace her freckles and connect them with an imaginary line, drawing hearts, animals or writing words. She would belly laugh from the tick...

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Stop the Storm

Submitted to Contest #240

The girl squinted at the dust devil coming toward her from the west. It was December 22nd and Bing Crosby was playing in the kitchen on Echo. Typical Phoenix Christmas. You dream about snow, and you get nothing but dirt. But she would much rather get a face full of dirt than stay inside and think about what had happened exactly four years ago. No, better to keep away, away from that carpet in the living room she'd stared at for what seemed like eternity, away from anything that reminded her; because if she thought about that then she'd thin...

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