Tag: short stories
member name: Mike Walton
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January 14, 2007 03:54 PM EST --
Statements, emotions, feelings and content in response to the following incompletes. In 1998, Dusty Reed challenged me electronically to come up with statements to her "Ifs":
1. If I feel . . .
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October 22, 2006 02:45 PM EDT --
"Can I get you anything else?"
"No." The man looked at his watch. It was two minutes before four in the morning.
"Okay, here's your check and thank you very . . .
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November 17, 2006 07:45 AM EST --
This is based upon an Internet "story" going around purportedly to be true... I don't know...but it's funny!!! It's kind of an Art Linkletter/Bill Cosby knock off...
[The . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:07 AM EST --
I STILL can't stop laughing about all of the possibilities!!
Okay. Some of my best story ideas come to me in a dream. I know...it's hokey, but it's absolutely TRUE!
Like this morning. I couldn't . . .
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October 16, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
(based upon the song "My Traveling Star" as performed by James Taylor, one of my favorite musical artists.)
The early morning light barely made it over the trees before she woke. She
calmly . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
(The issue was that a group of Scouts cleaned a yard and did some home sprucing for a family that was really bad-off, . . .
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January 15, 2007 09:59 AM EST --
(taken from "The Commandments, The Laws and Those Rules", (c)1993 Mike Walton.)
159. Everyone has a right to interpreting their own history, and to tell their story the way that he or she says . . .
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February 16, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
My mother told me once that you can stop being a daddy but you can never stop being a mother. It wasn't until I saw the Blue . . .
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October 21, 2006 04:25 AM EDT --
Pick me. Please pick me.
Look at the colors in that 256 color box, all of us with our heads pointing straight up into the air. Ready for action. Then rub your fingers over our
heads. Feel . . .
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October 21, 2006 07:10 AM EDT --
Since I wrote "Patches and Pins…", there were several instances whereby my ability to "Do a Good Turn Daily", to "…help other people at all times…" and to . . .
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November 30, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
While flipping through channels, I stopped and watched a wonderful, insightful interview with Retired General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. It was wonderful, because my hero was seen not . . .
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January 26, 2007 02:41 PM EST --
(based on a joke told over and over again via spammed email via the Internet)
Many of you are aware that I spend a considerable amount of time at my local "watering hole" when . . .
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November 18, 2006 06:31 AM EST --
"Godwacker" is an ADULT CARTOON which got out of control quickly -- to the wonders and satisfaction of the creators and benefactors of the project -- including me!
Back in the early . . .
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December 02, 2006 03:33 AM EST --
In contemporary "slang terminology", an "OG" is an "old man," a respected person in the neighborhood, the senior "player". On the TV show by the same . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:36 PM EST --
(Originally included in "Patches and Pins..." by Mike Walton (c) 1998.)
I have three natural children with the first wife, Millie. My oldest, named Lauren, started school a month and a . . .
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November 29, 2006 01:27 PM EST --
"Travis McKee" is based on the Mike Walton novel, "Infected!" The show did much for travel and brotherhood in the aftermath of the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington . . .
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February 02, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
There were two shows I enjoyed watching which, I guess, the production companies decided to have a "redo". I liked the shows as they were originally developed, but the audience I guess . . .
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July 21, 2007 07:10 PM EDT --
Okay. okay...
How many of you have played the computer "parlor" game "You Don't Know Jack?"
Come on, raise those hands high!!!!!
Did you know that it was supposed to be on TV . . .
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August 04, 2008 01:28 AM EDT --
(I sent this to my friends back this time (August) last year....I love archived email!! For those folks wanting to know what NOT to send overseas, this should give you some idea...*smiling*) . . .
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September 04, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
"Freedom is..." She stammered with the title of her paper. The truth was, she only had four lines on an otherwise empty sheet of paper.
She was told to stand and read her essay aloud, part . . .
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