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Potpourri: works of a longer nature.

The Date from Hell

Posted on March 11, 2013

SWM, fiftyish, fit, youthful, friendly,

looking for companion to enjoy biking, hiking,

talking and other simple pleasures.

The Date from Hell

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Seascape

Posted on February 23, 2013

Sea and sand are lovers,
each bound to the other
through endless years
of rubbing,
chafing,
pushing,
changing.

Sand containing, restraining.
Sea stressing, pressing.
Each preventing, resenting.

I do not want to

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Twenty Minutes

Posted on February 20, 2013

Estelle was absolutely positive that she was the oldest person at the party, although the bearded gentleman in the far corner of the living room could have been a close second.  He was holding court within a circle of

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Closing the Dairy Dream

Posted on February 16, 2013

Mike and I were always the very last customers to order at the Dairy Dream before it closed for the winter. It wouldn’t get us into any record books, but it was a personal challenge we took seriously.

Very seriously.

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The Complete Story of a Life

Posted on February 14, 2013

Note: This story won an Honorable Mention in a recent contest sponsored by Women on Writing.

He was tall and lanky and athletic, especially athletic.  But he flunked chemistry junior year, when the world should have been his for the

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