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Maui Time by
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(88 Stories)

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Once you are on the Pali highway you are stuck behind whatever you are stuck behind.
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Eco-Freaks Meet the Mob by
100
(194 Stories)

Prompted By Recycling

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The offer we couldn't refuse: the Eco-Freaks needed a large truck, and the mobster had one.
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Muppets as Musical Influence by
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(9 Stories)

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The magic of Jim Henson's creations affected my composing style in many ways!
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Immeasurable, incomprehensible by
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(170 Stories)

Prompted By 9/11

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Like matter, gravitational energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
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A Stroll Down Bloomfield Avenue by
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(194 Stories)

Prompted By Shopping Local

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United Cigar, run by the Cohen family, was packed with cigars and cigarettes, all types of magazine, and oh, the candy!
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Come and Keep Your Comrade Warm by
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(34 Stories)

Prompted By Hats

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They were experiencing a heat wave - it only got down to -30 degrees Celsius.
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Flowers on the Windshield by
200
(346 Stories)

Prompted By Parking

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Flowers on the Windshield  After more than a year together I knew our marriage wasn’t working.   As we had no kids,  no communal property to speak of it,  and little contention between us,  it was a relatively simple divorce.  The grounds Alan and I agreed on were irreconcilable differences – which I guess is…
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by
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Prompted By The New Year

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Originally this story was titled “Closing Out the ’70s in my 20s.” It began as follows: I know you are surprised that I didn’t use a song for the title of this story. But I just remembered this particular New Year’s Eve while I was in the shower this morning, and wanted to get the…
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Enuf o’ this Shit by
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(170 Stories)

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Duck and cover seemed the height of folly, and I'd never felt immortal.
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Five Points of View by (4 Stories)

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"When Anastacia was six, a first grader at Ulloa Elementary, she watched a movie that forever shifted her worldview."
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