The core audience has bought into Jack being a man more sinned against than sinning, but like Shakespeare’s King Lear, he has heavy baggage and there is no getting around that fact.
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Flash Fiction: Deep Space Recovery Ship 13 – Other
Her cerulean blue eyes open; she looks at them and says, “Other.”
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They stare into the vast expanse of stars gleaming in the black fabric of space. Bob notices a blip on the communication panel and enhances it. “We’ve got a distress call.”
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In the dim light of the kitchen Faith Hobbs held the frying pan up over her shoulder like a baseball bat behind Boyd’s back. He started loading a revolver, the sweat running down his face. “Make me something to eat, Maw.” “What you think you’re doin’?” she asked, wanting to …
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The problem with standardized testing and state assessments has been glaringly obvious for years – they test students as if they are all the same student.
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Perhaps we should all pray for theses abusive priests and forgive them, but that does not mean forgetting – now or ever.
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“The sun is shining and the sky is blue clear to Jesus,” my wife's mother Wanda said as we drove to the church on the day of her husband's funeral.
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Hank Aaron holds MLB’s all-time homer record; another guy named Barry Bonds has higher numbers but his achievement will be forever questioned with an asterisk.
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It is just that beginning a new series is taking a chance, kind of like a first date, and we know how most of those go.
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Players are going to think twice about rubbing that “crème” on their limbs, taking suspicious cough medicines, or popping pills any stronger than a baby aspirin.
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