Tomorrow Is A Scam
/… now in your hands is today, the present, in which you can do good, forgive, repent, adopt new habits and strategies to change the course of your …
By Benjamin Nambu
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When Doves Kill
/Isn't a dove carrying an olive …
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… do it in slow-motion, one pinpoint strike drawing one drop of blood per peck. They would happily kill faster if they had any weapon deadlier than their ….
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreFather Of The Tribe
/Every father has a grandfather.
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…Robert Billups was father to an ever-growing tribe of offspring - children…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMy Father's Inheritance Is My Own
/Dad and I were more alike…
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…but our children inherit our genes. Genes don't die. Genes are immortal in the same way computer chips are immortal. Flesh and bone turn to dust; genes turn to the next host…
By K. L Shipley
Read MoreGood Stays The Same
/Classics are redeemed…
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… come and go. Good stays the same. I learned this wisdom from a man who fled his native Romania after the communists took over. His name was…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA Place For Her Lever
/I wonder how much of…
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…name was Judy, I think. Don’t remember her last name. She walked in off-the-street looking for a job - just out of high school - with no experience and no particular skill. She was plain, short, a bit of a pudge, and completely…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAchilles And Odysseus
/The awesome prowess …
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…notice of Achilles came when I was very young. I had only to reach behind my head to the bookcase that also served as headboard. The encyclopedias of Funk & Wagnalls stretched the length of the shelf. Sometime around third grade…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreQuiet Mouse
/Timmy wonders why…
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…was never robust, certainly not daring. His siblings and cousins forgot that he even existed. That was all fine with Timmy. He found all that rushing about…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreVulgar, Ignorant & Impatient
/Decline has no…
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… fair to characterize the young of the current world as dismissively as I have in this title. They’re not all vulgar, ignorant, and impatient. Just an ever-increasing number of them. It’s not so much the young, as it is generations of…
By K. L. Shipley
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