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Accountant

Accountant – The canvas structure from which Saint Peter checks out souls trying to get into heaven on rainy days … as pronounced by someone from Boston. Roger McManus

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Chalked: Part 5

The next day, Johnny’s dad brought him to meet the chief. Anxious and distracted by what would follow, Johnny’s father had forgotten that he’d pinned up Johnny’s wanted poster the previous day, and for but a second was clueless as … Continue reading

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Chalked: Part 4

Johnny’s father stood in front of his opened dresser drawer in his room, and stared at his collection of primitive wanted posters his precious boy had given to him over the years. It amounted to a small book, but the … Continue reading

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Chalked: Part 3

After the breaks had mended, it was months of therapy to get his body working again. For a time in the healing process, Johnny had used his grandfather’s old squeaky wheelchair. It had squeaked more than ever, but Johnny didn’t … Continue reading

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Chalked: Part 2

Johnny had entered the academy as a civilian, very much like a caterpillar that enters the cocoon to metamorphose into something else more charismatic. But Johnny knew he had the right stuff. He knew it. There was no question of … Continue reading

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Chalked: Part 1

Ten year old, brown-haired, and freckled Johnny, ever since he could remember, wanted to be a policeman. His dad was on the force, his great grandfather had been a bobby, and his grandfather was a greeter at one of those mega … Continue reading

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Just the Facts

   If a well-dressed man says he just came across a hungry cheetah in the woods … he lied. If a dismembered man in ragged clothes says he came across s hungry cheetah in the woods … he’s probably telling … Continue reading

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Clearer View

   A wife and her husband stood in front of their bathroom mirror, applying all the toiletries to either create a face or mold a do, and all the while complaining: “My hair won’t stay put,” or “I can’t get … Continue reading

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In the Headlights

   It was a cold, windy night, sometime in December, sometime around midnight, and the snow had begun to come down hard. On the otherwise undisturbed, frozen-muddied shoulder of the road, a car was parked with its motor still running … Continue reading

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Weather or Not

   The E.R. doctor knew his nights were numbered as a part time weather man at the local television station when, with a man having been rushed into the hospital under cardiac arrest and the doctor ready with the defibrillator … Continue reading

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