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25 Most Recent Family Short Stories

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Finding Gold by Daniel Keith
just another one of my adventures as a child...
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Finding Marie: The Adoption Chronicles. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A gay couple adopts a young girl from Haiti. This is their story. Image of fireworks (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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First Impressions...By Jenna Aurora Whitson by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Jenna's thoughts on her guests, the Sanduskys, who stayed with Jenna and her fiance', Michael, for five days. She has met Louisiana before (from when she had been injured last November while traveling through Tennessee on her way to Louisiana), but this was the first time she met Louisiana's husband..
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First Sight (An Adoptive Mother's Letter To Her First Adopted Children) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
December 7, 2002 Dearest Johnathon and Ronee': I can hardly believe how fast you are both growing before my eyes. It has been nearly 10 years since you first joined our family as our first adopted children! (It will be 10 years come March of next year; you came to us on March 11, 1..
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First Time Fathers by Paul Mc Cann
A Fathers Love..
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Fishbone Confessions by Lucille Bellucci
meeting in-laws..
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Fisherman's Tale by Myles Saulibio
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte..
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Fishing or phishing … getting caught by the big one for a spouse by Keith John Paul Horcasitas
Fun Fishing Experiences by a Friend with his Wife..
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Fisseha And Tseha: The Adoption Chronicles. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A couple adds two children from Ethiopia to their family and couldn't feel more blessed. This is their story...
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Five Senses by Henry Stevens
A Journaling class assignment..
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Flannel In August by Thomas Crowley
In Maine, sometimes you wear flannel in August. Sometimes its more for a memory than the cold..
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Flight of the Archangels by Wendy Willett
Please pass this on to those you love and ask them to continue this tradition and pass it on to other friends. The world needs love, hope, prayers and angels to see us through these trying times . . . If this prose makes at least a few dozen families feel the angelic love that surrounds us all, perh..
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Florida Memories by Carolyn Kingsley
Survival and fun days in old Florida..
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Fly by Richard Kallao
original..
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Following the Star by Jo Janoski
A Christmas Story..
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Fond Memory by Penni Smith (Weston)
Another birthday, Bobby Jim..
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Food, Fun, And Family Frolics!: Our Picnic (By Ronee' Le-Anne Reaux, aged 11 1/2) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Ronee' Le-Anne Reaux, one of the fifty adopted children of Bill and Louisiana Sandusky, writes about the picnic she and her family attended. It is an annual affair; it is put on by AASK, an adoption agency specializing in placing special needs children with deserving families, and she and her famil..
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Food, Fun, And Family Frolics!: Our Picnic (By Ronee' Le-Anne Reaux, aged 11 1/2) ~Conclusion~ by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Ronee' shares some more details about the picnic that she and her family attended...
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Fool me Around by Richard Kallao
original..
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Fooling The Tooth Fairy by Judith Laura
Two second-graders try to con the Tooth Fairy...
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For Love Of Johnny...A Father Writes by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Bill writes about his son, Johnny, who is ten-and-a-half, and who suffers from a neuromuscular disorder, muscular dystrophy. He writes his son in the form of a letter...
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For the Love of Maggie by Michelle Mills
A skittish little kitty learns to trust, and love.....
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For The Love Of Nichole... by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A woman writes about the little girl that she and her husband adopted from Russia several years ago...
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Fourth Thursday by Caroline Annafiglia
All family Thanksgivings have similarities and differences..
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Fragrance of Marigolds by Alice Wisler
A little boy, a mother, and not enough time.....
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Frances & Jeanne, Hurricanes of 2004 by Donna Chandler
We'd lived in Florida exactly 3 days when we experienced our first --- not 1 but 2 hurricans with a few days of each other...
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Frank Hammer Writes: Kat Is In Labor; Keep Us In Your Prayers. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Kat Delchamps-Hammer has gone into the hospital; her water broke this morning, and now she's in premature labor...
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Frank Hammer's Journal (Second Entry): 11/3/09. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Frank is relieved that his wife, Katrina, is over the swine flu. He's also relieved that Hallowe'en is over...
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Franklin Hammer's Journal: First Entry (10/20/'09) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
"That's what I get for marrying a Louisiana Cajun girl!" Frank Hammer writes in his journal; this is his first attempt. (Katrina, his wife, has the swine flu; she's not feeling too good.) Image (C) 2005, Karla Dorman...
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Franklin's Letter (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Franklin Jefferson lets his friends and family know what is going on in their lives by way of an email...
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Free / Libre by Alex Canton-Dutari
Pot belly rebels.....
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Friends are like family to me. by Shirley. Champion
Family that's not blood...
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From Three Children To Six!: An Update, by Roberto Sormiento by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Roberto Sormiento, already a proud father to three children, finds himself the father to six more, this time triplets, all boys...
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Fun by Richard Kallao
thought we could use time to have fun and think on Author's Den too ...... original idea and story................
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G'pa's Romantic Marriage Proposal by m j hollingshead
Will - William Washington Hollingshead - was born in 1881, four days following the death of his father James...
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Gemini by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
My name is Gemini In Ai Lee Ranessa Sandusky. I am 10 years old, and I have been with my adoptive family since I was just 3 years old. I was born in Japan, near the city of Tokyo. I don't remember much about my life in Japan; but I DO remember how crowded Tokyo was, and I vaguely remember..
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Gemini's Journal, Continued (By Gemini, aged 13 1/2) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Gemini Sandusky enters a new chapter into her online journal...
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Genevieve Voisin's Story by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Louisiana writes of a co-worker who is more like her mother than her co-worker. They have been working beside each other for nearly 9 years now; in fact, Genevieve is the one who trained Louisiana in doing her job as a registered nurse...
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Getting the autism diagnosis, the early years by Melinda Delph
Originally Posted August 17, 2007 There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. ~ Maya Angelou ~ This is my experience with autism, the affects it has had on the entire family and how to find joy in the pain. I have been so blessed to be chosen as Nick’s mother. b..
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Getting to know Charlie: Some things we learned while traveling by Linda Zebsokey
More about Charlie..
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Getty-Up by Richard Kallao
when it seems only self doubt is left there is no hope at all, but there is..
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Ghita's Story (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The little girl named Ghita comes to America to join her new mommy and daddy, who have adopted her from an orphanage in India. She is five years old and very shy in temperament, but she is healthy and seemingly free from any problems. The following story is told by her mother, Eileen...
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Ghita's Story: Part One by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A story about a little girl who joins a family in America from India and becomes their adopted daughter. (Heard the name Ghita this morning, while watching a program about adoption, and right away, a story idea started cookin' in my fertile little brain! Enjoy!)..
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Gifts #2 by S Cardin
This is the 2nd in a mini series of short stories (there is 6 in all) of a family and the gifts they plan on giving during Christmas. The 2nd part is told by Taylor. ..
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Giggling With A Grasshopper by Paul Mc Cann
One girls sadness and sorrow turned to peace and joy ...
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Girl meets World-Forever Changes part 1 by Richard Kallao
original hope Disney Channel don't mind I was just touched by your recent episode I cried and I don't do that too often for a tv show I cried twice ever since I started watching tv,enjoy everyone...
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Girlie-Boy by Danielle Mundy
Ok, so some of this is artistic license...but it's true for the most part...I had to write a story about a memory for my English 111 class. Since my real memories are kind of too personal to share with a teacher that I barely know...I pieced this together from several memories ;)..
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Given Life, Given Love: The Oederkirk Family Story by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Yet another family I have created. Like the others, they have taken in children with special needs to raise as their own...
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Gloriana's Story: Part Three: Lilyanna Is Here!! by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The Hughes family of Valdosta, Georgia, has grown by one: their newest child has arrived from China...
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God Doesn't Make Mistakes! by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A mother of many special-needs children writes why they are so important to her...
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