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The Podiatrist and Stadium Girl
Chapter 1: I Meet the Podiatrist It all started coming down from the top of Half Dome in Yosemite. I wasn’t really looking where I was putting my feet. A rock I stepped onto moved, not much, but enough that I tripped and twisted my ankle. I assumed it would just clear up with the…
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I Like to Be Second
Paul reached out and silenced the alarm clock. It was already light, he didn’t need to get up early since it was a Sunday morning. But Sundays were the best day of the week for him because he would go to church. After the service everyone would mingle together in the hall next door and…
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The Reverend
Chapter 1: Lord Devon The footman opened the door to Lord Devon’s study and showed the guest in. He was a clergyman, dressed in a long black robe with a white dog-collar. “Ah, Reverend Robinson, I’m so pleased to meet you face to face at last.” “Lord Devon, the pleasure is all mine,” the Reverend…
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Mountain Biking
Chapter 1: Saturday Mountain Biking I was out mountain biking as I did most weekends. The friends I usually went with were out of town so I was just out on my own. I was descending a narrow single-track fast. I came around a blind corner. My hands were on my brakes the moment that…
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Auction
Chapter 1: The Orphanage It was the middle of summer in Victorian London. Helen lay in her bed in the dormitory in the Charing Cross orphanage. She was so happy that she had been selected to leave the old Tower orphanage and brought here. Obviously Charing Cross orphanage was much richer than the previous one…
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Girls Don’t Like Other Girls to Know
I recently retired from corporate life in Manhattan. I moved out of the city and bought a house in upstate New York. One of those little towns that are picturesque half the year but where in winter the weather seems to make a concerted attack on your life. I still do some freelance work, I…
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Remarkable Girls
Chapter 1: Remarkable girls I’m a teacher at a community college. It’s not that interesting a job, to be honest. I teach art, mostly drawing, photography and sculpture. There is the one big upside. Somehow girls love to study art. It’s a good job I don’t teach civil engineering where it’s male-dominated. Most of the…
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Neighbors
Chapter 1: Girls Next Door I work from home as a ghostwriter. When you read books by famous sportsmen and you wonder how come someone so tongue-tied managed to write a reasonable book, it’s because someone like me wrote it. I’ve been doing it for nearly thirty years, so I’m fast and always deliver on…