glimpses shared by our authors
  • I got to office by 7:08 this morning . Right before a heavy downpour set me running from my car right into the office building. I hate my job. Its ...
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  • He did something to her. She wasn't exactly sure what, but he made an impact. He changed her. And he left remnants of himself throughout her life. In that song ...
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  • When you are tagged, the hunters get all your info for free. You become marked for the rest of your life for your crimes. For hot-wiring 200 cars and trespassing, ...
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  • "There are forty seconds before the alarms go off and we're toast. You have to hurry!" That's Wallace, my supervisor. He's an old dude who was around when FORTRAN was ...
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  • Let me tell this straight. I am a transgender male; transgender because I have a woman living inside of me. Yes, I know. I don't fit the current schema of ...
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  • her blouses, her beautiful shiny black shoes with the buckles. I wanted to wear them, wanted to put them on even before I glimpsed the Christmas liplock between my stepmother ...
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  • Four basic forces of the universe and society. Four processes taking place in each creation as well. These aren't esoteric ideas out there somewhere.. they're active forces in your life ...
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  • He needed that boy. Here he was, on the day that she demanded that he bring him to her, and he didn't have the boy. His fingers tightened on the ...
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  • Hardly there yet hardly gone; a figure of ghostly beauty -- tantalizing yet discreet in her features, transparent and filled all at once. The green that hid beneath closed lids ...
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  • If one of us sees a rat or a bug, he materializes to get rid of it. Whether any of us like to admit it or not, he's our honorary ...
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