Tag: memories
group name: firstwriteit
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March 24, 2007 12:04 PM EDT --
Kitty Shrimpcell sat stuffing chocolates into her mouth; stared out at the window with the sound of Leonard Cohen playing from the record player in the corner. She watched Mrs Gentry leave to go to . . .
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January 05, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
Time
Time
slips by silently
in a rush.
Unstoppable
as it passes
leaving only memories
in its wake.
. . .
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March 28, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
This story starts out in Denbie ,Virginia. The year was 1958. I was eight years old. We lived on an old farm .We were allowed to live there free as long as my Dad tore down the barn and all the outbuildings. . . .
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April 04, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
We were a large family. & kids born to a poor world. I was about 12 at this time.I live with my family in dinwiddie .Virginia. We lived in a old two story house besides a stuckey's store. I remember . . .
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November 02, 2007 07:08 AM EDT --
Sister Scholastica sipped the wine from the glass on the refectory table. Tongue tipped; felt the juice; remembered past and time; the taste rinsed down. Held the glass; peered at the distorted images; . . .
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July 08, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
The darkness came; he softly slipped away;
no more those many chores that must be done;
no more of leaving to another day,
for anything that is must stay undone.
You close your eyes and you . . .
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November 04, 2007 02:06 PM EST --
You push your penny in the slot; close it against the crowd outside the door. Why there is always a queue in the ladies lavatory, you have often mused, as you do now, as you disrobe, sit, and stare . . .
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July 16, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
When I was just sixteen, in high school yet,
my mother’s sister, Lillian, my aunt,
said something to me I could not forget;
and even after all these years, I can’t.
My favorite . . .
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April 10, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
I have heard it said that people are who they are based on a number of factors including who they associate with. Well, if that's the case then I guess I must be a little "nutty". . . .
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January 06, 2007 10:49 PM EST --
I'll never forget the night of the dorm fire at Kent State University. I wish I could remember the name of my dorm. I think it was White Hall but I could be wrong. I lived on the second floor. I transferred . . .
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February 18, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
Remember when we used to chase lightning bugs?
It was twilight, that perfect time between the stresses of the day, and slumber of night. Of course, we were children, . . .
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July 04, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
Every tattoo has a story, and here's the story of one of mine...
Back in high school I probably would have been voted Girl Least Likely to Get Tattooed, if they'd had such a title. I was a . . .
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March 18, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
One of the best concerts that I’ve ever been to was one that I didn’t want to attend. My sister and I were in our almost-teen years and my father surprised us with concert tickets for our birthdays. . . .
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May 23, 2007 06:31 AM EDT --
I travel down a familiar road,
With blue gums still standing tall
Memories flash before my eyes
Filling them with tears that fall
For the loss of two good friends
That by my side stayed for fifteen . . .
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December 05, 2007 09:20 PM EST --
While growing up I spent the first five years with my grandparents and after that every holiday and summer break from school. Where we lived, we were all poor in a financial sense, but very rich in many . . .
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May 06, 2007 01:58 AM EDT --
We lived in seaford ,Virginia.Around 1958. My name is tom. I have a twin brother .His name is Steve. I also have an older brother. He was about 10 at this time. It was summer. Middle of the week. Hot sultry . . .
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May 24, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
It was all fragmented As if some one Had taken a hammer
To a mirror and shattered His life and memories; And all the tiny pieces
That he thought well Sewn within, were throw Over the . . .
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April 06, 2009 05:52 PM EDT --
I lived in Belair Maryland in the seventies. This was around 1974. I was working in my garage on a 1961 chevy 2 door hardtop. They called this car a bubble top bcause it had a lot of glass.The phone rang . . .
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January 07, 2008 03:53 PM EST --
When I attended my family reunion in the Pittsburgh area in 2001, my cousin had brought along all the old photos and momentos from the families. One of the things she showed me was a paper where my . . .
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May 26, 2007 12:26 PM EDT --
1. Candy
Kits(4 toffee pieces in a pack, flavors, banana, chocolate and strawberry)
Black Licorice, a piece 12 inches long and bigger around than a pencil
Stick candy (all flavors)
Single . . .
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