He spent two days at the way station. This was a single room made of corrugated metal, but there was shade there, and he enjoyed it as long as he could. He usually had no shade. He now stood outside this metal enclosed room. The sun, which never set, hung perfectly above his head and […]
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The invading King awaited the return of two scouts who had been sent to attain the whereabouts of the Enemy’s King and kill him in his sleep. The invading King was in a camp with his main battalion. As his armies approached the Enemy King’s front line, he had sent many scouting parties ahead to
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Miriam Jenkins, 66 years old and newly retired from her bank teller job that she held for 40 years, is ordering a cup of coffee light and sweet. She is all the way across the country for the first time in her life and on her way to Alaska. She is at the Barnett Marine
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Benjamin was very worried. He sat at his mother’s bedroom window and thought as hard as any nine-year-old had ever thought. Although he loved her, he knew that his mother was very bad. Yesterday morning he couldn’t get her to wake up and, as he had been doing every few minutes since that time, he
It is 11:45p.m. William F. Johnson, 18 years old, is on a plane to a place far away from his boyhood home. A few hours before, when he left that boyhood home for the last time, Trevor McKinskey ceased to exist. You see, Trevor was planning this 18th birthday self-present since he was ten years
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“Go to sleep Mama, we will finish the work in the morning.” Yill was standing in the narrow entrance to his mother’s sleeping room. In his mind he thought of it as a “sleeping room”, but of course everyone’s definition of things rely on their own individual experience. In this case, a dirt floor, enclosed
To watch the Storyboard Theater Movie of this story CLICK HERE We find ourselves in Beijing China in the year 1422 AD. The Yongle Emperor (aka Chengzu or Yung Lo, r. 1403-1424 AD) was the third ruler of the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD). When Chengzu’s son Hongxi (Hongxi means “heart” in Mandarin) was
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Sometimes we are in the right place at the right time, although it seems to be the opposite. Arriving at that place sometimes destroys our lives as we know it. Yet, in retrospect it can be a blessing that forces us to grow in directions that we never imagined. Paul and Billy grew up together.
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It was an average morning on Maui. If average meant the most perfect climate and landscape anyone could ever want to live within. Mona was asleep in her bed. An ʻIʻiwi bird was singing right outside her window and its song was mixing with the sounds of the ocean and the soft enveloping breeze. This
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Author’s Note: Although this is a work fiction in the end, it is based on real life events. Mr. Bailey, she has a 95% chance of needing a liver transplant, and only a 2% chance of getting one. Being a numbers guy he tried to calculate the odds of his daughter surviving. He whispered to
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