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Mr. Rogers grace exists in miniature cities of kindness, - the tranquil tones of forgiveness, level to the eye of a single frighten child. - For him, and in that moment, that child is the most precious thing in the world. - He blesses them with positive ways of dealing with their feelings; - the…
With the sound of sirens screaming outside, ten knocks on the door, the shout of authority flooding in from the red steel, would Joe American give up Anne Frank hiding in the attic among his dusty relics, the crawl space shared with a family of rats, living under the loose floorboards among the stacks of…
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Those who tread the thin blue line knows it follows through their lineage. - Strong boys become men, then become cops. The rest become robbers, the devil that stares them in the eye for the rest of their life. - If they are good they’ll get their shoot out in the slaughterhouse.
It’s hard to tell the lies of impression, the little bits of puffery that makes one look good in the eyes of a would be admirer. - One may say their name with a French flair. Betty becomes Bette. Roy becomes Roy-al, with the long affected A stretched out to tomorrow. - One may even…
Everything is a continuous white line that goes on forever to the horizon where the next dream is always ahead. - Just you and the mustang a body and a machine moving through space and time. - Drive like you mean it. Drive hard. Drive tight. - The Mustang is a wild bronco not wanting…
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The stars on the flag started falling off when Private Walker returned home to Tennessee after six months of being in country in Afghanistan. - At Camp Leatherneck on the treadmill he folded five points to pentagrams, imagined fireworks nova his welcome back. - The flag rarely flapped in the arid silence of base camp.…
Stella remembers when the Zeros flew thru her backyard and she saw Pearl Harbor in flames, blue bodies bouncing on the waves. - Afterward, welders melted the steel of capsized destroyers hoping to rescue any upside down survivors. - Her Billy drafted six months before would fly Wildcats in the Marshall Islands and in the…
The earlier horror leaves DT a broken drunken man building smaller worlds within worlds, boxes within boxes, memories within smaller memories to keep the monsters from eating the shining he has left. - He is forever moving to the same room with different people. - “We are all dying”, he thinks, “The world is one…
In the rear view mirror he can see the specters.. - her upside down reflection scatter when a foot hits the puddle… - hear the notes of a trumpet solo popping thru the open red door of a jazz club… - remembers when they whacked his partner… - and left their footprints on his ribs..…
