Category: Love
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Jo and Tom #14
Can you tell a story in 100 words using the following words in it somewhere: “Take off the amour. We’ve been to Hades and back. No glossing it over. I took the most dangerous tours. No marriage. No children. Your grey bun and my balding grey head rocking our grandchildren on the porch, our dream.” …
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Happy New Year 2026!
Happy New Year 2026! Saint John 2:29-3:6 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him. 3:1-6 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason…
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A Mrs. Missing
I am happy to report I have been very busy. God is blessing me with more work! I have been reading your messages but I’m crazy busy. I have had many spells, day and night, of crying uncontrollably. I miss my husband so much. I miss my body before ALS. I miss feeling beautiful the…
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Can you tell a story in 54 words Jo and Tom #11
Thinking now of gestational acne rolling down HWY 41, Jo turned the radio on; the song was “Spaceman” by Harry Nilsson. Would Tom be happy? Would he want to come home? His husky voice rejoiced leaving his alcoholic, abusive father and sharecropper shack. No more picking wheelbarrows full of lettuce 12 hours a day.
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Can you tell a story in 40 words Jo and Tom #10
I tell no one, especially Tom. I loved Tom too much to make a puddle of his life. Knapsack, tip money, and favorite bonsai, we (baby and me) headed toward the interstate in my “Fishbowl,” my 1977 yellow Plymouth Pacer.
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Women and Men of Good Will
In my mind, I have been so busy with a head full of dreams. Dreams of rescuing children suffering in an America full of resources, but failing to clothe, feed, shelter the most vulnerable and valuable in our society, the widows (elderly) and orphans (from neglect from addiction not just substances but also the ego…
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Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere: #9 Jo and Tom
I remembered all too well. The camera that recorded our senior trip. The album is full of memories. Ice-skating and sharing a wedge salad at Bravette’s, and we made love riding the ‘L’ train around the city. Frightened, I knew you were pulling away into the world. That was two months ago. He was leaving…
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Can you tell a story in 77 words using the following words in it somewhere: Tom and Jo #8
Insides melting like a marshmallow on a spire over fire, she couldn’t hide her despair. “Jo, don’t get wishy-washy on me. This is our way out of Rockville. I made the roster. I am guaranteed to soar like an eagle. Let’s see the world! Please Josie. All our lives we’ve been impounded in this one…
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Can you tell a story in 46 words…Tom and Jo #7
It’s almost Halloween! Before you don your witches’ hats and grab those broomsticks, here’s a new story challenge for you. Can you tell a story in 46 words using the following words in it somewhere: As a high school senior, Tom was drafted by the government as a special agent after taking the ASVAB test.…
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Can you tell a story in 54 words #6
Can you tell a story in 54 words using the following words in it somewhere: Tom’s aftershave turned her reverie back to reality. Here she was standing beside her first love on a date 30 years later when he left her at the train station crying like a banshee as the train zipped away. She…
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