Redemption

Redemption It was 7:30 on a Monday evening in May. I had just finished my last class of the semester at the community college. At 42, I was going back to school to learn a[…]

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Ugly duckling

Her name was Barbara, she lived not too far away from us across the railroad tracks in a shack of a home that her poor family rented. Barbara was an outcast, she attended school with[…]

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Loving thy neighbor

One day I was looking in the paper hope someone would hire someone with no work experience. Then I got lucky there was a local scientist looking for an assistant experience not needed. I almost[…]

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Just to get by v

Sunday morning I’m alone in the house. Tyler is out with some friends doing God knows what so I’ve got the house to myself. Somehow, even though the peace is comforting, I wish I wasn’t[…]

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Katherine cartridge

Katherine Cartridge I met Tony Bennadetto on my seventeenth birthday. He and my brother introduced me to their gang as related in an earlier chapter. The next year I was a senior with a work-study[…]

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