The hunchback still sat on the bottom steps, bent over miserably with his forehead resting on his knee. Miss Amelia stood with her hands in her pockets, one foot resting on the second step of the stairs. She had been silent for a long time. Her face had the expression often seen in s...
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Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles, I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to . Mom had a two-week in summer. While
With my mom by my side and tears streaming down our faces , I stra ed on these chunky legs and I stood u . They were so ainful and so confining 48 all I could think was , how am I ever going to travel the world in these things ? But I knew that in order to 49 , 1 had ...
A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine. We pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big old bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, you all catch all those fish?" "No. Talked them into giving up. Here's your ...
One night I felt so that I got down on my knees and prayed for help. “Please God, I can’t do anything for my son. I'm at the end of my rope. I'm giving the whole thing up to you.” I was at work when I got a phone call. A man himself as the headmaster. “I want...
Life, a pile of entrails slick in our hands and cooling in the fall air. I want to have the meaning. I want to have the purpose. My children ask me, what’s the point is living if we’re just gonna die? How does that make sense? and I shake my head and shrug with resignation...
I put my other hand round my own throat, for comparison. “That’s actually what he said, too—Hector McEwan, I mean. But he did heal people; I saw him do it.” My hands released both our throats, and I opened my eyes. He gave me a quick précis of his relations with ...
twist, applied what she knew had to be wicked pressure, and had Aidan on his knees, with his hand locked behind his back in seemingly the next second. “Didn’t your parents ever tell you,” Dex asked in his cold, emotionless voice, “that you don’t put your hands on other people...