Prose
Four friends are sitting in a car taking a road trip. They are driving along a plain Midwestern highway. They are in their mid-20s dressed casually and nothing seems out of the ordinary. However they are finishing up singing ‘Row row row your boat’ in a round. ALLEN is driving SCOTT is in the passenger seat, JAY is behind the driver, and IAN is behind the passenger. They are overly ecstatic, like children going to summer camp.
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On the same day I learned the word ‘bitch’ I learned when not to say it. But in hindsight she really was a bitch so I don’t even feel that bad about saying it.
Let me first set the scene: Troublefield kids had it good in Bushland. Sheepish and sharp-witted we were the teacher’s idyll package.- Details
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‘Fact. Man was not derived from beast nor bacteria ape nor apple tree. Fact. I resign myself to believe there is a God out there who looks like me. [He] has a son and THAT son is my salvation. Fact. My Savior is a descendant of David NOT of Darwin’s evolutionary theory.’
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-An obituary and a eulogy to my hairline whom I’ll miss.
Jordan Elaine Troublefield was born March 13th 1988 on a Sunday; his hair wouldn’t show ‘til 4 months after. Immediately the two took. Jordan recalls fondly the early memory of sitting for his father Sunday mornings before church –doused in hairspray discovering he looked much sharper with his hair parted to the right than the left.Read more: Saeta Hodie, Absentis Cras (“Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow”)
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The butt of his gun pressed against my back pushed me forward. It was not the actual rifle that led me forward but the notion that inside that barrel lay a bullet ready to pierce my skin ending my life and my God I didn’t want to die. So I walked slowly forward.
