Tag: short-story
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Pain or pearl?
“Oooh, look at that!” “So gorgeous!” “I want one!” “What are you looking at girls?” Lauren asks her twin girls, Lisa and Lila who are looking through a magazine. “Mom, come look at these pearls!” “So pretty and neat and flawless.” “Uh huh.” Their mom replied, “I agree, they are gorgeous.” “Can you buy me…
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Garden series VII: Times and turns
Cindy is harvesting the ripe veggies from her garden, filling her basket with different veggies. After she pulls out the carrots, she goes over to the tomato patch, gently picking the ripe ones. She reached to pick a tomato, but stopped, looked at the plant. The tomato plant has a ripe tomato, all red, on…
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Garden Series VI: To be grape or not?
Connor stood in his garden looking at the grapes. They are ripe and ready to be picked. He plucked a grape and popped it into his mouth, closing his eyes. He savored the taste. “Mmm… this is good”. he said . He felt proud of himself. His mind went to the conversation his had with…
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Garden series V: To thin, to grow
“Mom!” What are you doing!” Cindy’s son Adrian screamed “You are pulling away the plants!” “ I’m not pulling away the plants.” Cindy replied calmly, bent over her garden “But mom, you are!” Adrian insisted “Oh! you mean these?” Cindy straightened up and motioned to the seedlings she has in her hand. “Yes! Why are…
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Garden series IV: The wine
“Pow! What a great shot!” Andrew said “You bet! That ball almost made it into the net! The two men were watching a soccer match on the TV “You know what? Soda and chips goes well with this game. Connor said as he got up and went to the fridge. “I hope I didn’t miss…
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Garden series III: The soil
Cindy rolled up the water hose, stood back and looked at her flower bed and smiled. “Now, it’s time to get dirty” she said to herself and walked to the backyard. She locked her tools from the shed and walked to her garden, she passed the men talking “How’s it going?” She asked her husband…
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Garden series II: The vine
Cindy was watering the flower bed when a car pulled up their driveway. Their friend Anthony came out from his car. “Hi Cindy!” “Hello Anthony, how are you doing?” Cindy greets him “I’m good! Your flowers keep getting better.” Anthony remarked “Oh thank you! I added a couple more varieties. I will get started on…
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Kindness…Does it cost to be?
Kathy hopes and prays that the house showing would go well. More than that, she hopes that her clients will buy the house. She hasn’t made a sale recently and she is trying hard not to stress a lot about it. Her clients today are “big deals”. She parks the car and looks over at…
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