We find ourselves outside a 4 story office building in Freehold, NJ. Jim is in a police van on the hostage negotiator’s phone with his brother Chris. Chris is holding one man hostage, a very prominent attorney, at least in his own mind, John Sleastak, Esquire. Chris had told Mr. Sleastake’s staff, and the other […]
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To watch the Storyboard Theater movie of this piece, CLICK HERE. His nine year old stepdaughter grabbed his hand and said, “I need to talk to you.” She turned away from him, still maintaining as firm a grip as a nine-year-old girl could muster, and pulled him towards the spot which she had chosen to
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21 years ago Tina’s mom ordered: “Don’t miss your queue again honey, k?” Tina was 9 years old. She hadn’t been able to feel her feet for almost three hours now. Her mother thought that her feet were relatively large for her body, so she always forced them into shoes two sizes too small. The
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Author’s Note: I first had this nightmare at age 11. It comes and visits me on random nights with no warning. Unlike other peoples’ nightmares, I remember mine in vivid detail. (Lucky Me!) I am driving a large 4 door 1960s black sedan, a Chevrolet Impala to be exact. My right foot is pressing the
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Great grandfather, the patriarch, was simply called Jēṭhō (pronounced Yay-Tow and meaning The Eldest) “Jēṭhō, what is it? What do you see?” It wasn’t what he was seeing, but what he was hearing. The family, about 20 of them varying in age from 1 to 97, awoke to find Jēṭhō standing and steadying himself in
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We catch a newscaster in mid-sentence… “….. we go now, live, to the Front Porch of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Johnson, the parents of the kidnapped ten year old boy, Timothy Johnson, Jr.” Mr. Johnson approaches a podium and connected microphones, his sobbing (loudly) wife clinging to his side with her face half-buried in his
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To watch the Storyboard Theater movie of this story, CLICK HERE. Author’s Note: We are much closer to the reality presented in this story than most people realize. Definitions: Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights The parent is unwilling or unable to eliminate the harm facing the child or is unable or unwilling to provide
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Author’s Note: It is my prediction, and that of many much smarter than me, that in the near future we will be able to purchase functioning body parts. This will include genetically matched replacement organs with no chance of rejection, but also those of a gender opposite of ours. So people born with XX chromosomes
