“Hi, is this Tina? This is Joan, Timmy’s mother. I know we’ve never spoken before but I wanted to know if I could have a few minutes of your time?” Tina was taken aback at getting a phone call from a total stranger, even if it was the mother of the man she broke up […]
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Hilvey ó Ceallaigh, whose family’s surname was changed to Kelly when they went through Ellis Island in 1939, sat on a train bound for New York City. When her family passed through Ellis Island they didn’t have time to sightsee, as they needed to board a train in Newark, NJ, bound for Kansas City, Kansas,
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in his arms, she has no defense, nor does she need or want one his hand resting on the back of her neck, under the blanket of her beautiful hair, pacifies both of them her logical mind lay sleeping, as her heart guides her thoughts and body even when she has left him, she still
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AUTHOR’S WARNING! GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT! TURN BACK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE AROUSED! Baby (aka Rita, wife of Brad), was getting set to work on next week’s appointments. She grabbed her old-school-paper-leather-bound calendar and sat down in front of the fire. She had a folder full of papers, emails and post-it notes on her
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Definitions: Inverted Gender Analysis – This is one story, told two different ways. The only difference between them is the gender role dynamics are reversed. This is meant to cause a conversation on how people’s opinions on situations can be drastically different due to the gender dynamics involved. When you have read both: Did you feel
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Definitions: Inverted Gender Analysis – This is one story, told two different ways. The only difference between them is the gender role dynamics are reversed. This is meant to cause a conversation on how people’s opinions on situations can be drastically different due to the gender dynamics involved. When you have read both: Did you feel
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The year is 1852 and The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, The Famine or The Irish Potato Famine, is ending. We are in the Irish village of Carrick-on-Shannon, which is nestled in Northern-Central Ireland, in the county of Leitrim. Many do not know that this “famine” was man-made, as English troops had
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Oscar Bergdorf, 72 years old, was in the ICU of a large regional hospital. His four children, all sons, and his wife, Abigail, of 52 years, stood around his bed. He had suffered a major heart attack and stroke. He screamed “Alejandra!” A few times per minute Oscar’s eyes would open wide, he would sit
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All you need do is appear. I am in a constant state of looking for you. I pay close attention to every new face that I see, as it might be yours. I listen to voices in a crowd, even when I cannot see the one talking, as this might be the voice of my
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To listen to the spoken word version of this story CLICK HERE Narrated by Robin Akin, https://robinakin.com/ Her house sat in the middle of nowhere. The Little Girl lived where the land ended. Here, the land painlessly surrendered to the violent ocean, which lay just beyond and below her cliff, which was the end of
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