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Joined 2 years ago from Emerald Wells, Just off the crossroads,Texas. Last activity 7 hours ago.

 

"Perfection, I know nothing about. I never claim 'knowledge' let alone superior knowledge. It works out better for me that way. I'd like to say I manage one language, but for the amount of misunderstanding that goes on between the words leaving my mouth meaning one thing and reaching someone's ears and meaning something completely different, well it happens all the time. Perhaps it is the air the words pass through that is the issue." mckbirdbks

 

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  • 112

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Letter 7-8 Earl Wild Horse Canyon

    6 days ago

    Em opened the front door of the Emerald Wells Café and could smell the sweets the Rose had baking in the back. She turned on the lights and set about getting the coffee brewing. When the coffee was ready she poured herself and Rose a cup and walked...

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    Mary Ellen – The Hour Before Dawn - An Exercise in Fiction

    5 weeks ago

    Just an exercise in fiction and imagination.

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    Unexpectedly Dead - Trash Fiction

    2 months ago

    There was an incessant beeping just off to his right. He lay there unable to turn his head in the direction of the noise. The room was dark, but a light shown just off to the left. Now and then a shadow would pass through the light reminding him of...

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    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Letter Six – Hobo Jungle

    2 months ago

    This is an Emerald Wells Cafe Story. Join us and follow the adventures of Carl, Earl, Jimmy, Gabby and Em.

  • 216

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Germany invades Poland. Letter Five

    2 months ago

    Em’s Mom called up the stairs. “Breakfast, get down here you two.” Both Em and Ruby arrive in the kitchen in time to see Grandpa lower himself slowly in his chair. He looks at his daughter and begins. “I just heard last night on the...

  • 184

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane,Gabby, Letter 4

    2 weeks ago

    Mr. Henson leaned over the counter at his pharmacy and called to Earl who was standing at the comic book rack holding Detective Comic #27 which featured the newest comic book hero ‘The Bat-man’. “Hey, Earl. What are you doing right now? Mrs....

  • 33

    God's Playbook A Book Review

    3 months ago

    Follow Thomas Mitchell and Sandy Goodman as they go through their lives walking by Faith.

  • 64

    Handful of Time - Poetry

    3 months ago

    The young boy bolted through the door with a handful of time to his name. The hands of the clocks, all dribbled away, and to this day, no one can say, he didn’t pay. Sired some fillies, more precious than lilies, then...

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    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Carl Snow White

    3 months ago

    Earl sat on his stool in the kitchen of the café. He lowered the paper he was reading and looked across at Rose who had just taken a tray of cupcakes from the oven. “It says here that Mr. Walt Disney is going to rerelease ‘Snow White and the...

  • 249

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Jimmy and Gabby, Letter Two

    3 months ago

    The sign on the store front read, ‘Emerald Wells Cafe’. Each morning at 6 a.m. Emmy turned the key in the front door, hit the lights, turned the little sign with the clock hands facing outward announcing ‘Open’ and made her way to the coffee...

  • 284

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane Carl, Letter One

    28 hours ago

    Carl woke in the loft of his grandfather’s barn. Straw decorated his short blonde hair. The words, “Billy-Be-Damned” drifted up and disturbed his dream. He walked to the window and smiling jumped out, landing in the hay wagon below. “Well...

  • 275

    Emerald Wells Cafe Stories: Pear Blossom Lane - Twelve Letters

    3 months ago

    Em climbed out of bed and washed her face in the basin, pulled off her nightgown, and washed under her arms. She quickly slipped on trousers and a short sleeve shirt. Then down the stairs she bounced, with her dog Chip right behind her, tail...

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    When Delilah Smiles, Sunnie Day’s First novel

    6 weeks ago

    When Delilah Smiles The Laurus Company Sunnie Day’s new novel When Delilah Smiles is available now. Her publisher The Laurus Company has contacted her and this is a proud announcement of the great amount of work that was put into the...

  • 89

    Ohio Tom - Letter

    3 months ago

    The sound of big Jim Bradbury’s body hitting the ground causes me to pause and spin around, even in the middle of the fire fight. This giant of a man on my right flank a moment ago now lay sprawled across the ground. His helmet, thrown free and...

  • 109

    The Knock at the Door - A True Story

    3 weeks ago

    The Knock at the Door Days here have a certain pace to them. In the morning hours garage doors automatically open, cars drive away, sometimes lazily and sometimes in great haste carrying their adopted driver here or there. In many instances it is...

  • 49

    Murder Once Done - Part Three of 3

    28 hours ago

    Murder Once Done - Chapter three Paul sat three rows from the back, as it lumbered out of Monclova and watched the beauty of the Mexican desert go by slowly. The bus had many passengers, but the heat made them slow to move - and quiet. They seem...

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    Murder Once Done - Part Two of Three

    28 hours ago

    Murder Once Done Chapter two He walked into the cantina found a chair and sat. His mouth swelled. He could taste the blood of the cotton wads. The heat had drained him of the little bit of energy he had left. The waitress arrived, spoke and...

  • 54

    Murder Once Done - Part One of Three

    28 hours ago

    Murder Once Done With a three day stubble on his face and the crumpled suit jacket Paul Maddock felt like hell. He sat at the table of the little cantina going over the last few days. He thought about how far from home he was and wondered how far...

  • 63

    Saga of Gwen Applegate - Poem

    2 weeks ago

    Marshal Todd came to investigate The curious death of Gwen Applegate He hated this job, felt he was always late A single bullets’ what sealed her fate   He saw the tracks left in the snow A single rider anxious to go He took a...

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    I Should Have Died For My Country - Conclusion Part three

    28 hours ago

    I Should Have Died For My Country - Conclusion The crowd removed everything from the nine of authority, the two females were given surplus American flags to wrap themselves in. Then the group was jeered as they slowly made their way down the hot...

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    I Should Have Died For My Country - Part Two

    3 months ago

    The cases of surplus American flags dumped from the sides of the stock trucks was taken by most as welcome material to make their clothes and as additional shelter. Most days you can close your eyes and think about the fourth of July. You have to...

  • 91

    I Should Have Died For My Country Part One

    6 weeks ago

    I Should Have Died For My Country   I’ve been here two years now. They use to call this the Highway 10 corridor to what was the Arizona border. The New Territorial Committee changed the name, but it is the same asphalt. The tent and tarp...

  • 78

    Go and Fly / Shy October My Best Poetry

    3 months ago

    Go and fly Go and fly my gentle beast No heavy wings for you Nest high, where eagles reach No tree top perch will do Out of range of arrows flight The hunters feast unknown Aloft upon outstretched wings You choose to fly alone...

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