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Rants, Random Thoughts, & Ramblings Short Stories

Mirror, Mirror – Game On Again

This post is the third installment of Mirror, Mirror. It may be the final posting since this piece is heading toward a larger self-published project. I welcome your thoughts, be they good, bad, or ugly because they only improve future work. Enjoy!

Coming awake in a strange place can be unsettling; consider how much worse it could be to figure out the strange place is a county jail cell. That’s where Sandy found herself. In a cell, by herself, with the floodgates opening, she let in the memories of how she managed to be in the slammer. Suspicion of murder, accessory to murder, or the entire enchilada of murder in the first degree; they were not sure which charge would stick. While law enforcement attempted to sort out a best-fit fate, they decided she should spend a little time in the county lock-up and dressed in the latest fashion statement – an orange jumpsuit with PRISONER stenciled across the shoulders on the back.

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Mirror, Mirror – Game Over

The mystery deepens for Sandy, knowing her arrest was imminent for something she did not do despite what the murder prevented happening to her.

When Sandy returned to her room, she dropped the backpack on the bed, climbed in, crossed her legs under her, pulled the book from the pack, and pushed away the plastic covering. She turned to where she had stopped reading earlier and began to read. She was not so concerned about ending the relationship anymore, thinking she had better find out what else the book could reveal to incriminate her should push come to shove with law enforcement.

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Rants, Random Thoughts, & Ramblings Short Stories

Mirror, Mirror

Standing alone in front of a mirror – are you truly alone? Is your reflection one-dimensional or does it include unseen things like hidden intentions and unspoken thoughts? Sandy Tillman would confess to just how much more than reflections are possible, even up to the point of death.

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Reluctant Princess

What do you do when your body has been invaded by a spirit from over a century ago? Royalty or not…harmful or not…it’s hard to ignore much less believe.

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It Starts with Me

There comes a time in one’s life when you have to look into the mirror and not just see the familiarity of the reflection that stares back at you. There comes a time when one really has to look into those familiar eyes and beyond the blackness of your pupils to really see the life […]

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Confessions on Lust

I called myself a Christian, and I lived peacefully among Christians, but I also lived a secret life. I counted myself as a good provider for my wife and kids, was a highly rated and respected professional in my work field. Those things were in one life, and I split time with them and my secret life. My “deceptions” were a blind spot because I justified everything. I justified with the prowess of a practiced addict.

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Escape Artist

This has been a risky piece to write, but confessions are that way. I fully anticipate judgments to come from my words here, but it is okay – I have the comfort of knowing which judgment matters and Who makes it.

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There Was An Old Man

It was Friday afternoon when my son and I were returning home from the video store, part of a typical pre-weekend routine. My attention shifted automatically toward a little green house along McKee Road. The house was small and sat on a patch of farmland that had not yet succumbed to the advance of the city. The large trees provided shade and seemed to stand guard over the house. My eyes searched the porch for him, but he was not there. His chair was there, but he in his denim overalls, his hat, and his wave were not. He had not been there for almost two weeks. Along with him, part of me was missing.

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Breakfast at Venus

Saturday mornings had become something of a ritual in our family, not out of habit or tradition, but out of expectation. Since my wife’s job required working on weekends, more often than not, I had the job to orchestrate The Feed. Our morning offered a special time to bond as we experienced the routine of […]

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Learning Culture: Is a Product of Convergence

Yes, I tend to take a hard line on “performance” in the flow of work versus “learning” in the flow or work, but isn’t performance the ultimate outcome we seek? Learning is not the end game…it’s a by-product of enabling performance…while learning at the Point-of-Work and during moments of need. If I’m mistaken on this bent of mine, why is there a “70” in 70:20:10?