Painting The Roses Red (Part 2)

Our Reader Score [Total: 6   Average: 2.5/5]"Get on your feet you miserable wretch." I commanded, grabbing her hair, pulling her to her feet and then putting her face close to mine. "What is the name of the Shylock and whom is he collecting for?" "Remember, things will...
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Allure of a Barber Shop

Our Reader Score [Total: 9   Average: 3/5]I had vowed never to return to a barber shop, but there I stood only steps away from the torment of my youth not fully understanding what had brought me back to this particular location. Barber shop memories of my childhood...
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The Talent (Part 3)

Our Reader Score [Total: 5   Average: 3.2/5]He was at the after show party when he felt someone touch his arm and saying, “Hello, do you remember me?” He turned round and his stomach gave a little lurch of excitement. It was Trisha! He gave her a beaming smile and replied,...
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Special Customers

Our Reader Score [Total: 5   Average: 3.4/5]Angela Yazzie and her daughter Alisha were on their way home one morning to Many Farms, Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation when suddenly their pickup started chocking and sputtering. They pulled off the freeway in the middle of nowhere and...
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Sonja’s Special Night

Our Reader Score [Total: 9   Average: 3.8/5]Rick and his wife Jessica were having dinner at their favorite Mexican Diner Eldorado’s . They were being served by their favorite waitress Sonja Chavez. She was a petite Mexican girl with lovely shiny black hair that she wore up in a...
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Hannah’s New Life

Our Reader Score [Total: 35   Average: 2.6/5]Hannah still couldn’t believe it. It was supposed to be her dream trip. She had taken a year out before college to travel the world and was touring the middle east. She got up particularly early that morning to see the...
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Claudia’s Punishment

Our Reader Score [Total: 28   Average: 2.3/5]Claudia looked at the ringing phone.  She didn’t need caller ID to know who it was.  He had said he would call six months after Claudia had buried her husband who died unexpectedly from a melanoma.  He had died before she...
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Not A Fake Anymore

Our Reader Score [Total: 20   Average: 2.8/5]As long as I can remember I’ve had long hair. Since I was 16, I let it grow really long and in the last 3-1/2 years, at the most, I had it only trimmed. Now I’m nearing 20 and my hair,...
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Painting the Roses Red

Our Reader Score [Total: 11   Average: 2.1/5]Shakespeare wrote: "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." When I first met her, she was Blanche, Blanche Rousseau. Until then, I assumed she was somewhat of a recluse and...
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The Talent (Part 2)

Our Reader Score [Total: 5   Average: 1.8/5]7 Years later Jack had now been working in various salons for the past 6 years. He had left school as soon as he could and then moved from salon to salon, gaining experience and his great talent as a stylist...
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