He stood at a crossroads on the outskirts of his village. Ahead of him was a fork in the path. To most men going to the left was the safer, and so the obvious choice. And that is the path that most men took. The path to the left led to the known and comfortable. […]
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We find ourselves in Nebraska, in the year of our lord, 1899. This decade had been plagued by drought, but 1899 was the driest growing season on record. In fact, this was the driest growing season that anyone could remember, including the oldest of the old timers. Johannes Westenskow X, was a sixth generation Dutch
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Author’s Note: The main character of this story has cancer. If that will bother you, please stop here. We find ourselves at a roadside memorial to a victim of a fatal car accident. 55 years ago, Martha’s only child Timmy was killed at 18 years old when the car he was a passenger in
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Definitions: Perfect Game – In baseball, a perfect game is a game in which one or more pitchers complete a minimum of nine innings with no batter from the opposing team reaching any base. To achieve a perfect game, a pitcher must not allow any opposing player to reach base by any means: no hits,
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The mercy and love of God is all around us, Guiding us with wisdom we think is our own The mercy and love of God is all around us, Providing comfort when we are scared and alone The mercy and love of God is all around us, Enveloping us in a divine chrysalis The mercy
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Author’s Note: This story was inspired by a Physical Therapist that treated me in the spring of 2023. She always seemed to know exactly what was wrong with me, as if she had some kind of magic power. Chelsea was nine years old. She was a little late “coming of age” and her mother thought
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Author’s Note: If reading on a phone or tablet, this story is best viewed in landscape mode. Table of Contents Important Facts Chapter 1 – Robert Johnson Prays For His Son’s Death – Part I Chapter 2 – Karl Müller Chapter 3 – Trench Warfare, World War I Chapter 4 – 1914 German
We find ourselves at the Pearly Gates and Jesus and Saint Peter are about to call the play by play of yesterday’s dead. They are sitting in the announcers’ booth. They have microphones, etc. and they will be calling the play by play together. Saint Peter says: “Well death fans we have a real treat
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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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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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