Tag: short stories
member name: Mike Walton
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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August 25, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
One week from today, I'll be gathering my gear and moving into my temporary home at Banja Luca, Bosnia and Herzegovina to do my part within EUCOM's Combined Endeavor 09 exercise.
I have feelings of . . .
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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 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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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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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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August 06, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
When I turned 13 (the "age of work" in our family: when you turned 13, you could now work outside the home for money -- and you get to keep every dime, every penny, every dollar!), I simply could . . .
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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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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 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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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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November 19, 2009 04:31 PM EST --
(pilot, need some feedback please -- thanks. If you want to hear theme music for this, it's "Kid Zero" from Foreplay (Fourplay X) Enjoy!)
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The dumpy kid . . .
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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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September 28, 2006 07:38 AM EDT --
This is taken from "Eagle Feathers", and will be included in "Patches and Pins", both by Mike Walton
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The reporter asked me "What are some of your Thanksgiving traditions? . . .
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