Tina Bennett, of the notable NJ Bennetts, needed a drink. Not Poland Spring or a Mountain Dew, but something much harder. Her go-to was AppleJack Brandy. The owner of The Last Start Ranch, Timmy Jenkins, always did bed check at 4:00 a.m. But he was away for another few days, and he had forgotten to […]
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Chris Whalen, CPA (CW, CPA) was sitting at the desk he had sat behind for the past 73 years. It was 2063. He called out for his assistant, LoriChet. “LoriChet, bring me the Jenkins file right away!” What was taking LoriChet so long? He got up to walk to the reception area only to find
He stood at a crossroads on the outskirts of his village. Ahead of him was a fork in the path. To most men going to the left was the safer, and so the obvious choice. And that is the path that most men took. The path to the left led to the known and comfortable.
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He was literally on his deathbed. His son and daughter, now 55 and 60, had not talked to each other for years. His dying wish was to have them reconcile. Suddenly they both walked in his room, wide smiles on their faces. They came to the right side of his bed. Tina, the oldest, spoke.
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Tina Oppenheimer, 18 years old, graduated high school just a few months ago. This summer vacation, she got an entry level clerical job with a law firm owned by one of her father’s attorney clients, Timmy Einstein, Esq., aged 30. Tina’s parents had a life plan for their daughter. She had been accepted by an
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We find ourselves in Nebraska, in the year of our lord, 1899. This decade had been plagued by drought, but 1899 was the driest growing season on record. In fact, this was the driest growing season that anyone could remember, including the oldest of the old timers. Johannes Westenskow X, was a sixth generation Dutch
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Definitions: A Shot Of Liquor – There are 1.5 ounces in a shot of alcohol. Drinkers in countries like the US, Ireland, and Greece consume full shot glasses, but not every culture does this. Germans, Hungarians, and Romanians drink shot glasses half full, and Russians and Poles drink them one-quarter full. BAC (Blood Alcohol Content)
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Author’s Note: The main character of this story has cancer. If that will bother you, please stop here. We find ourselves at a roadside memorial to a victim of a fatal car accident. 55 years ago, Martha’s only child Timmy was killed at 18 years old when the car he was a passenger in
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Definitions: (EOD) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialists Are the preeminent tactical and technical explosives experts. They are warriors who are properly trained, equipped and integrated to attack, defeat and exploit unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices and weapons of mass destruction. Explosive ordnance disposal specialists are the culmination of the best tactical and technical training the Army
He watched her walking along their fence, softly humming to herself. A sliver of the top of the sun was just discernible on the eastern horizon now. A butterfly was following behind her and each time she would slow down, most times for no reason, the butterfly’s momentum would carry it dangerously close to her
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