Tag: short story
member name: Mike Walton
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January 02, 2007 02:36 PM EST --
The question was posed to one of the Yahoo groups: "Have you seen the movie with the penguins? They would tap their feet to a song and wait for their mate to tap their feet to the same song . . .
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December 24, 2007 06:24 PM EST --
"Micheal!"
Somehow when she calls me "Micheal," it is as smooth and soft as, well, a Southern Belle would say the word. It is like she's singing a song, and want to add 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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February 13, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
That card made my eyes water heavily as I walked down the front of the headquarters company building, the building in which I worked in. Even more than the card I received two weeks before from my wife, . . .
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November 22, 2007 01:53 AM EST --
My mother passed away on April 15th -- Tax Day in the United States -- in 2004. I was there as she breathed her last breaths, allowing me and her husband, my Dad, to say "Goodbye" to her . . .
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February 11, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
Seeing how Scout Sunday (the day closest to the Anniversary Day) this year is on this coming Sunday, and since the poster provided me the best opportunity to post my reflections, I'm forwarding this . . .
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February 12, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
Have you seen our Supermen lately? Those boys dressed in tan shirts with olive pants. They wear red shoulder loops as a symbol of their passion: to help other people at all times. To be an example of . . .
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February 13, 2007 02:31 PM EST --
On Feburary 8th in Washington ninety (now ninety-seven) years ago, officials of a new youth-service organization filed paperwork to incorporate and federally charter something called the Boy . . .
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February 14, 2007 01:40 PM EST --
Like many of my peers, and as a visible example to youth whom I would come in contact with today, I wore my Scout uniform instead of my normal "street clothing".
The current Scout field uniform, . . .
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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 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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January 13, 2008 11:24 PM EST --
The email simply asked me "Don't you EVER sleep?" It was from the writing group I am a member of. It was the latest of five postings I replied to this evening, well after midnight. . . .
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August 04, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
I had a kid to come by and bring his ratty dog on a
walk. While the dog was on a leash, his droppings
were not. This is when I lived by my lonesome in
upscale Edina ("E-dine-a") , whereby . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
...but it comes closest to my emotions!! After almost TWO MONTHS' absence from Gather, I have finally gotten this laptop -- the one with the space bar which doesn't want to always space -- to . . .
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April 04, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
(The mainbahnhof is the central or main train station in a town)
Hello!!
Now that I've shaken the keyboard, I can get on with typing...maybe....
I am at the main train station and I finally found . . .
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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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