Eliza's Mother

Eliza is the perfect daughter to a domineering mother, until she quietly rebels.

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…never had a good answer, and secretly she didn't want to give a good answer. Why she had such a compliant little girl had to do with constant repetition, with beginning early with her demands and, perhaps, with having an impressionable…

By Anita G. Gorman

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The Birmingham Preacher

The morning after the bombing, Fred Shuttlesworth’s congregation begged him to cancel…

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…late-night explosion reduced the small house to shambles and rattled windows a mile away. Ku Klux Klan members had placed 15 sticks of dynamite beneath the home of Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church. Neighbors and police arrived to find Shuttlesworth, his wife, and children…

By Pete Black

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A Door Kept Open

…could any of them possibly know what it was like to suffer, to wake up every morning disappointed that death hadn’t taken them away in the night. No one could possibly understand the undeniable feeling Cadmus couldn’t shake, that the best things in life continued to avoid him purely because life seemed to hate his face. He sat on the bus bench every morning watching them go by…

By C.L.Norby

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Finding An Empty Envelope

We hope things will get better but nobody wants to put in the work, they just wait

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…many days that can run full red, first the jobsite tried to bleed you dry again, then you came home to find your wife’s bleeding heart being served as the main dish. “Nothing special,” she said when asked about dinner. Yohan found this particular day, this last Saturday in September would become…

By C.L.Norby

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Happiness And Contentment

What makes people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied…

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…people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied with what they have? Read the story to find out how futile it is to change one’s outward circumstances to make…

By Marvelio Oxford

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Twenty Years Later

…decided to visit the earth. So, He came dressed as a village man. Then visited a village. He saw a lass is sobbing sitting on her house varandah. It was night and she was alone. The house was an obscured part of the village. He came to her to find out the reason for her sobbing alone. After hearing the voice of a male, she started stuttering. Then the God gently put His hand on her shoulder to calm her…

By Monalisa Parida

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