Growing Old
Daylight dances across the mantel in reds, greens, and gold.
The flowers growing there look so beautiful, I must be growing old.
My cat used to warm his self in that little spot of...
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Growing Old
Daylight dances across the mantel in reds, greens, and gold.
The flowers growing there look so beautiful, I must be growing old.
My cat used to warm his self in that little spot of...
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Joseph engraver
I seems as though I dream more often now than I did when I was young. The strange thing is, I dream of people have never known and places I have never been. And, I more often than not I dream in...
Chapter 18
The Final Hunt
Bud parked his Buick under the oaks; his two sons jumped out and began looking for places to put up their targets, while he took the time to enjoy the freezing Canadian...
Chapter 17
Question and Answers
I was watching the local weather report when my phone rang. Expecting it was Ralph Shoemaker, I said. Sorry Ralph the weather is too cold and I feel terrible; I am...
Shopping expeditions
I was going over the photos I had taken of Scott´s home and was more than pleased to see the ones of him playing with my daughter had turned out so well. I was trying to decide...
.Chapter 15
Questions without Answers
Sunday, after church services the two Callahan men went into the den, closed the door behind them to discuss the Gustavo twins, and the unusual conversation...
Chapter 14
The Birthday Party
The day was turning out to be perfect for a lunch out outdoors. I lit the charcoal in the grill.
Beverly and Pamela were in the kitchen fixing the potato salad,...
Chapter 13
An invitation to the lake
I was home editing the photos of the many unusual stone structures that I had taken. Beverly and Sylvia were out delivering another order of Smile Cookies to...
Chapter 12
The heart attack
Bud Gustavo lay in the intensive care unit.
He had an oxygen mask on and was breathing much better. The pain and shortness of breath he was feeling had subsided. As...
Chapter 11
Sylvia Pinkerton
When Sylvie Pinkerton left The Auburn School for girls, she decided to walk to her tennis match. The sun was out and the hope of early spring filled the air. She was...
Chapter 10
Chris and Clarence Callahan
Chris and Clarence Callahan were two cousins who enjoyed each another’s company. Twice a month on Sunday after mass with their wives and children at Saint...
Chapter 9
A working vacation
After five days of taking photos, and conducting interviews, I returned from the White Mountain lodges. I found my daughter and wife in a state of delirious enthusiasm....
Chapter 8
Killers on the Loose
With their father’s advice, his twin boys were soon driving a two ton dump truck, salting and plowing New Hampshire’s narrow back roads. It did not take them long...
Chapter 7
Serious Consequences
The serious consequences were quick and final in coming. They came that evening with the appearance of Miss Lewis and the school’s director Bob Daily knocking at the...
Chapter 6
Marsha Callahan
The day Marsha Callahan and her best friend walked into Rosebuds. They found Rosalie at the counter making coke floats for a half dozen seventh grade kids... As soon as...
Chapter 5
Eliza Gomez Sanchez
Having no parental restraints the twins decided that evening to take, a fifth of vodka from the restaurant, their parents Buick Riviera and the hunting knife, and...
Chapter 4
The First taste of Blood
The next morning, Bud had the twins get their rifles out of the truck as he poured the morning coffee into plastic cups. While they drank, he told them how to...
Chapter 3
Rosebuds
I had once done a story about Rosebuds RestaurantThe name Rosebuds came from the founders Bud and Rosalie Gustavo. They started a restaurant, ice-cream and sweet shop four years...
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Chapter two
Smile Cookies
It was still daylight when I got home, I found Beverly working in her greenhouse. She gave me a light kiss and said.”Well, you are a surprise, I did not expect you home...
24/3/ 2019
THE WOLVES OF MANCHESTER
I am a content writer for the Manchester Union Leader. When I am on assignment I get to enjoy the New Hampshire country side, eat in every new restaurant that...
Kiz Paws
I am pleased that you found The Purple Heart a good story to read, I thank you for taking the time to comment, it has made my day much brighter
Chapter one
Josephine
There is a slow moving meandering river in Louisiana.
Amongst the stately old cypress trees sits a trailer house surrounded by empty beer cans ,two rusted...
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