Tag: destiny
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DECISION TIME
Pick a door. Go through it. The choice is hers to make. She hesitates, shuffling on the illusory sidewalk one way then the other. Images surface through glass panes. Behind one door she sees her mother, smiling, beckoning, encouraging. Through the the next she sees Bethany, her cute pudgy smile, her big blue eyes, her…
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HE NEVER LEFT
Heading downtown, with a one way ticket out of here. Nothing left for me in this one-horse town. It’s time to go and find my fortune elsewhere. This is my destiny. ‘Yo, Mikey!’ Who’s that at the window? Julie? Man, she is hot, even in tracksuit bottoms and wet hair. ‘Hey, Julie.’ ‘Where you headin’?’…
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TORRENT OF ABUSE
The insults poured from their mouths like dark water cascading in a torrent, tumbling on top of him and those he loved. The more they beat him down, the more determined he was to stand up. In the end, like the rocks worn down by years of abuse from a waterfall, he could take the…
Iain Kelly 