My Stories for Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Strictly Business

Fast Fiction The sun was quite strong at lunch hour. We had come to the spacious front patio of the factory to play football soccer; no need to speak of work and the miseries of our situation as illegal aliens. This was glory time, a time in which nothing would insist on us, except the passing availability to own a piece of our lives, the win or lose time, without any other hidden agendas. Some of us have come from countries as far as Colombia and Peru; others as close as Honduras and Mexico;... Sign in to see full entry.

Noon Prayer

Fast Fiction. George, eleven years old boy, is at the outdoor line-up, on the schoolyard. December; it’s cold. He is looking askance to the other side of the patio where a blonde little girl, age 10, is looking at him with languid sadness. Her name is Francine, her teacher just called her name. She seems a new student. While he is there, the boy behind George, on the line, starts a conversation with him about Santa Claus. George, who believes in Santa Claus, seems annoyed at his friend’s mocking... Sign in to see full entry.

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