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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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
To any Christian, Easter’s significance is obvious and forms the foundation for our faith. But since I was young, I was always more emotionally and spiritually impacted by Good Friday. Although Easter Sunday truly fulfills Jesus’ most important promise, to me it was the day of his death, when he was still partly mortal, that
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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
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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We find ourselves in San Diego California, at the Central Courthouse located at 1100 Union Street. Family court is in session. We will witness a first of its kind custody hearing. A man is claiming that a woman he had natural sexual relations with and impregnated, is not the biological mother of the the child
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