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The Hotel- Gilding the Unicorn
Ep. 2 It was 6:45 in the morning. Other than a very uncomfortable nap in my pickup, I had been up for the last 36 hours. The event list was brutal this time of year. Christmas parties, holiday parties, office parties, and other excuses for people to drink and try to hook up with whatever…
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The Hotel
The Hotel was set back from the road, to the left and slightly behind the All Nite Chineze Buffet restaurant that was taking up the parking lot in front of it. There were parking spots around the back of the hotel. “This place believes in privacy over safety,” Doug Nichols said to his partner, seated…
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Room 113
Along with the various stories that you will see in this website, some of them will be written as part of a members-only section. My plan is to release one story a week, with the paid members getting a bonus story every two weeks. There will likely be stories, like The Estate Sale, that will…
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The Estate Sale
PART ONE June pulled her car over to the side of the road. She had never been to one of those. Most people have a yard sale to get rid of their crap, hoping it becomes someone else’s crap. Estates sales were different. Often, these were held because the original owner had shuffled off their…
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The Tourist
Someone once said, ‘The eyes are the window to the soul’. For many, that is a cool phrase to describe how you can learn a lot by just watching someone. Most can’t hide their feelings and thoughts, if you look hard enough. For Charlotte, it was so much more. She can open those windows, and…
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Destiny
When she was little, all she wanted to do was put on her princess dress, and twirl around the room, mostly by standing on her father’s feet while he did the twirling. From a young age, her family felt she was destined to be on stage, performing. She took ballet all throughout elementary and middle…
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The Merger
It was unheard of at the time. A start-up tech company merging with a major financial banking company. Investment Associates bought into Advanced Imagination. The jokes about the money farmer IAAIo made more headlines than the actual event. That was fine with the two companies. Monday came, and a new stock ticker hit the market,…
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Boom Boom Origami
Bob “Boom Boom” Bowdon sat, folded up like a piece of origami, in the back of the clown car, wondering where everyone was. He was the last one to leave the car, but he had to have someone pull the cord to let him out. His stunt that he was known for was to explode…
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Fear of three little letters.
Why? I hate writing that word. I don’t have the patience to wait for a reply from a written query. Google, ChatGPT, Alexa. They can all tell me faster than waiting for someone else to get off their ass and reply. I was always asking that question when I was a kid. It drove my…