Tag: storytelling
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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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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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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March 21, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
I was "cut" from the Gather First Chapters competition; however, I have a lot of very loyal readers who wanted to read the three chapters I submitted. So here they are, along with a plot . . .
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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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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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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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December 30, 2008 03:17 AM EST --
Her real name was Soon-Li-Quan but she fancied the name which was chosen for her by Central Air - Lotus. She dressed as if she was a high-powered businesswoman but in realiity, she was just another . . .
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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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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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