Aliens
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‘Can’t wait to see you and dad. Love you too! Bye-bye!’, Mia gently replaces the phone in its cradle, closes her eyes and takes a few deep breaths. It does not help, her mind is racing, outpacing her heartbeat. ‘Shit! Shit, shit, shit!’, she opens her eyes and sees her reflection in the hallway mirror,…
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The rain shower surprised everyone. It was the last few minutes of the fourth quarter in the annual football game between the cities of Gordonville and Richfield, and the score was tied. For the last few years Richfield has won every match, and tonight Gordonville is inside the twenty-five-yard line of their arch enemy, with…
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Work on the farm never stops. Up at 4AM to fight for warm water in the shower, then run to breakfast before it’s gone and you have to settle for the burnt bottoms in the pots. On the truck at 4:45 to go work the fields until the water break at 9, the break to…
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The town was filled with alien talk. It all started earlier that morning when Crazy Joe rode into town from his shack in the mountains like he does every week to sell the fruits of his weekly toil. Crazy Joe still pans for gemstones in the many spring fed creeks in the mountains that cradles…
Tales from my head 