Tag: story
member name: Chuck L.
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December 20, 2009 11:55 AM EST --
Christmas shopping was organized chaos in our household. The Old Man worked a six-day week at the Standard Slag Sand and Gravel Company. The sand and gravel mine was the next road south, a mile behind . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:38 AM EST --
The summer I turned eight, we moved. The Old Man and my Mother had decided that their children should know the joys and labors of growing up on a farm. So-o-o-o-o… they bought a farm – . . .
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December 19, 2009 11:45 AM EST --
I remained in 4-H until I was 18 (once I turned 14 it was mostly about the girls who owned horses… not that they paid me a blind bit of attention). Once the last of the hens had been delivered . . .
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December 19, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
While we were chopping weeds, hauling manure, planting seeds, and generally turning the half-acre of black bottom land assigned to each of us into prize-winning, eatable, can-able and freeze-able vegetables, . . .
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December 15, 2009 12:15 PM EST --
As I told you earlier, from the time I was three until I was almost eight, we lived in a little, red, two-story house by the side of an Ohio country road, named for its most locally known feature, . . .
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December 15, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
The year I turned six was a momentous year. I started school (no Kindergarten for us - bung ‘em straight into a full school day in first grade), and promptly got my hands whacked with . . .
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November 25, 2009 09:43 PM EST --
Hattie Larlham was the best damned cook West-by-God-Virginia ever produced. Her Thanksgiving meals were celebrations of the joys of her kitchen and affirmations of life. Ours was the spread . . .
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October 04, 2009 01:59 PM EDT --
The pig in the cop car wears a hog's-head mask... red overhead light casting shadows underneath its eyes.
I walk the children through the spitting snow, a twelve year-old Jedi Knight . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:31 PM EDT --
In 1967, at Hiram College, behind a door, in a cabinet, in a biology laboratory, resided a cardboard box of very little weight. If you lifted the box, it would rustle. If you opened it, excelsior (finely . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:09 AM EDT --
It has been suggested that too many of my posts are written in the first-person, so let's see how a first-person story does when it's told in third-person.
Part 1 - The Chase Begins . . .
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March 28, 2009 04:57 PM EDT --
What happened earlier ?
The Old Man glared at the tripod through the increasing snowfall in the darkening evening. "Well," he said, "might as well go in."
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April 15, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
To start at the beginning, click * here *
I came home for Christmas, the winter of 1962. I was on my way to Korea, having just finished US Army Basic and Medic Training. While I was there, I borrowed . . .
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April 27, 2009 07:47 PM EDT --
To begin at the beginning, click * here *
Part 2 - Off the Mountain
Pulling to the left, Billy aimed the car for the inside lanes of the curve, following the Trooper. . . .
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April 29, 2009 07:45 PM EDT --
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Part 3 - End of the Ride
As the tanker screamed past, Billy’s right rear tire dropped off the pavement, and the Galaxie slung itself out of control. . . .
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June 01, 2009 05:28 PM EDT --
Or mebbe it was Darwin's canoe.
This won’t qualify anyone for a Darwin - but it damn’ near did!
Back in the fall of ’68, I was a graduate student at Utah State University in Logan . . .
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June 03, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
I’m older’n dirt, and dumber’n a spade, but I keep on a’workin’. At four o’clock ev’r black, soul-killin’ mornin’, I get outa bed ‘n wish . . .
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September 01, 2009 05:37 PM EDT --
Th' Luvly Laura and I were watching (oh, I'm SO ashamed) an episode of Jon & Kate Plus Eight, in which Kate and the boys spent a week at a Dude Ranch. At the end of the week there was a . . .
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September 02, 2009 08:09 PM EDT --
The summer I turned eight, the Old Man bought the farm… all twenty-five acres of it. Our new home had… ROOM, indoors and out. The old farmhouse was HUGE (our rented house had been tiny). . . .
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September 17, 2009 09:21 PM EDT --
I have sent this story to Senators Stabenow and Levin. I ask that you cut and paste and send it to YOUR senators and Representatives.
The following is ABSOLUTELY TRUE (although somewhat . . .
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October 20, 2009 09:39 PM EDT --
I woke up dead.
Again.
It really pissed me off.
I oughta be used to it by now. I’ve been dead for more than 45 years, and usually I’m OK with it. But this morning . . .
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