Definitions: Exculpatory means something that tends to clear someone or something of guilt or alleged fault. For example, in criminal law, exculpatory evidence is evidence that is favorable to a defendant and can justify, excuse, or create reasonable doubt about their actions or intentions. This could include a statement or evidence such as DNA that […]
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Author’s Note: Pardon the use of certain terms if used in the wrong context. The Leibovs, Jeremiah, his wife Yonah, and their seven children, are an Orthodox Jewish family from Brooklyn. It was an exciting time as their only daughter, Julia, was going to be Bat Mitzvah-ed soon. Mrs. Leibov had mailed the invitations for
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Timmy and Tina were married, second marriages for both. Tina’s first husband was the love of her life. They met in grade school, got married at 18, and had 5 children. She was a housewife, and that is all she aspired to. She was so glad she gave 35 years of her life entirely to
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Definitions: Oral Tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry. In this way, it is possible for a society
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ACT I It was Timmy Jenkin’s tenth birthday, April 1, 2075. It was 4am and he was barely asleep. He was dreaming. He was high atop a mountain and standing on a flat ridge made of granite. The edge of this ridge led to a 2,000 foot fall into a granite boulder field.
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She fell asleep in her current home, just as she had done for decades. First as a married woman, then as a single mother. She loved this house so much. All of her important memories were here. She was proud of it and what she had done here and made of it. It was like
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Definitions: felicitations fe·lic·i·ta·tions /fəˌlisəˈtāSH(ə)nz/ noun words expressing praise for an achievement or good wishes on a special occasion They lay in their marital bed, the second one for both. She on the right, lying on her right side, and he on the left, lying on his back with his eyes open. It is 3am.
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Author’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Definitions: MOAB – Mother of all Bombs The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. The MOAB is also called “The Mother of all Bombs” by scientists and the community alike. El Male Rachamim (God full of compassion) – is a Jewish prayer for the departed that is
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