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25 Most Recent Family Short Stories

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The Beverly Hillbillies :In Honor of Donna Douglas by Richard Kallao
original thank you Donna Douglas rest in peace my thoughts and blessings are with you and your family..
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THE BIG LUG ! by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com
HE'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CK !!!! JERSEY DEVIL ... RETURNS !!! SORRY about the Pic ... it is upright on my puter, but turned on AD posting. Tried rotating then posting, but still comes up wrong here... Sorry ... ..
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The Bigger Purpose by Carl David
The bigger purpose of Bader Field, my latest book..
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The Birds and The Bees by Keith John Paul Horcasitas
Learning the basics of life, "the birds and the bees," as a child growing up in New Orleans with a Kleinpeter Family heritage. Published in "WHERE Y'AT" Magazine, New Orleans, LA - January 3 2017 http://www.whereyat.com/the-birds-and-the-bees..
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The Blanket by Kathy Sullivan Evans
The completion of a baby blanket by my Mother left to me for my sister's new baby after my Mother died...
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The Blue Spruce by Micki Peluso
This is a fictionalized partly true story of family life with a twist ending...
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The blue-eyed girl by Vasu Ramanujam
He could easily give the child back and retrieve his briefcase ... but he reasoned otherwise...
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The Boogy Man by Jack Roberts
The Boogy Man I grew up in a town of forty thousand people, but in my childhood days, my world was limited to about one third of the block that I lived on. My mother was a very protective woman when it came to her kids and my sister and I could ride our bikes as far as we wanted as long as..
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The Bookends by Budd Nelson
the way it should be when it is right..
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The Border and The Buttons by Sara Cunningham
A blankie, a wubbie, a throw, a thing that everyone needs that holds a family together...
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The Bozo: The Adoption Chronicles. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A young boy is having trouble adjusting to his new baby brother, who was adopted from China. Suddenly he isn't the one getting any attention, and he feels left out. The Chinese symbols stand for "baby boy"...
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The Butterflies are Laughing by Sam Vaknin
My little brother lies bleeding on the rug. Two gory rivulets, two injured wrists, delineate a perfect circle. ..
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The Case of the Missing Ashes by Lona Smith
Do you have control over your ashes? Maybe..
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The Child within the Child - by: Linda Law by Linda Law
A beautiful child, decides that having her own will make life better...She is 15 years old. ..
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The Children Nobody Wanted...The Hamilton Family Story by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
An update on the Hamiltons from Jamestown, California. (The family, like with most of my characters, are fictional; the location is a real place.)..
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The Christmas Kitten-Cat by Beth Trissel
For the Love of Cats..
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The Christmas Wish by Barbara Terry
A cute boy tells his mother of his Christmas wish...
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The Coin by TERESA CROWE
I wrote this in 1997 but never shared with anyone. I hope you all enjoy it.Teresa..
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The Cost of a Firebird by Terry Michaels
Coming of age story about what a teen had to endure to get a car...
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The Crack in the Door by Ruan Mills
Through the eyes of a child (276 words)..
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The Day Grandmere' Died... by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
I'll never forget the day our grandmother, Grandmere' Claudia Moliere', died... It was five years ago several months back, like back in February. Our grandmother, who was maman's maman, had been seriously ill with cancer (brain cancer, to be more exact), and she went rapidly downhill in a m..
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The Day His Hair Turned White by Shorty White
Based on a true incident. ..
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The Day Kelly Sue Died by The Grim Reverend Steven Rage
original 'flash' fiction from http://stevenrage.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-day-kelly-sue-died/..
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The Deacon and the Salesman by Terry Michaels
A retelling of the parable 'The Publican and the Pharisee'..
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The Dead Man in the Next Bed by Valerie Pederson
When I went to visit my dad in the hospital, there was a dead man in the next bed. This inspired me to write the following story...
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The Devil in a Powder-White Cloak by Vicky Jeter
This story could be marked Biography; it could be marked psychology; it could be marked tumultuous Drama. I marked it as family because it is Family, perhaps more significantly than all of the others. Names are changed to protect anonimity. ..
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The Differences Between Sarah Palin's Daughter and Mine by Beverly Mahone
Let me start off by saying the one thing Bristol and my daughter share in common is the fact that they became teenage mothers. ..
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Read excerpt from The Door at the Bottom of the Stairs The Door at the Bottom of the Stairs by Carol Koenig Stoodley
"Who are you talking to, Grandfather?" "Dick Tutt" Fear curled in my stomach. My Grandfather, always had visits from Dick Tutt when we went to bed. I wanted to know who Dick Tutt was, but I was too afraid to ask. It took twenty years to find out...
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The Elevator by J.R. Reynolds
Perils of riding an elevator in a Medical Facility...
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The Exchange Student: Kibiki Ntanta's Story by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A young Maasai teenager is coming to stay the summer and upcoming school year in America. She is going to stay at the Mulligan family's home. They are her sponsors. It is a part of their local high school's "Cultural Exchange Program", where students from different countries can attend school in A..
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The Extinction of Elinor and Her Family by R. Burrow
More misery...
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The Family Farm by James Johnston
“The Family Farm” was written on scraps of paper over many years by my sister, Marge as memories came to her. The words were written as remembered by a child. She is thankful that time and life have not been reversed. She allows that it is good to relive those days on paper, but she wouldn’t want..
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The Family Figaronelli, Spring 2012. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Took a little break from writing; glad to be back! :) A family in New York updates us on their lives. Image of snowfall (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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The Famous Run of the Quilts by Mary Lynn Plaisance
In the doll land of Sha Bebe, there is a famous run of the quilts. This is when 100 dolls get on a magic flying quilt and Madame Poulette runs along the braided rug road to tap each magic flying quilt with the tip of her magic wand...and each quilt takes off into the air to go to a home who wants a ..
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The farm by Roger Vizi
This is the true story of what can happen when a city boy buys property in the country, and some of the adventures we had helping them do some needed repairs. It is another in my camping misadventure series that will become a chapter in an upcoming book. Your feedback is welcomed and needed ..
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The Farm by Kara Myers
One Father's dream for his children..
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The Father by Helena Harper
A story in verse, based on fact (from my book "Family and More - Enemies or Friends?")..
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The Fence by Ellen Hatcher
Peggy, a fifty-three year old grandmother decides to go back to school...
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The Final Farewell by Niki Collins-Queen
My father answered the phone. "I was about to call you," he said with awe. "I’m coughing up blood. The doctor says I have lung cancer," he stammered. ..
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The Finality of Death by Vena McGrath
Mixed emotions - death and its finality and impact on those that remain and move ever onwards towards their own day of reckoning...
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The First Day of Christmas by Richard Kallao
origina;..
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The First Rule by Richard Kallao
original..
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The First Time Ever I... by Jackie (Micke) Jinks
Remembering a delightful surprise..
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The Food Chain by Julie Mataway
A short tale (tail) of life with kids & pets as rendered by a mom in Phoenix while the weather warmed last summer. Ok, it got stinking hot...
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The Foreign Uncle by Helena Harper
A story told in verse and based on fact (from my book "Family and More - Enemies or Friends?"). It is the true and inspirational story of my German uncle...
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The Four K's/reviSED Sept 20 2012 by Lois Christensen
How it come about all my girls are named with a K...
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The Galatea of Cotard by Sam Vaknin
She takes a deep breath and exhales the words: “If you are truly deceased, then how are we conversing?”..
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The Garden Hose by Michelle Mills
Recovering and rediscovering the simplest pleasures of life...
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The Genealogy Quest by Swan Son
History of my study of genealogy and what it means to me..
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The Ghouls of Calle Goya by Owen Jones
This is the 1st chapter of my latest unpublished novel. Please vote for Kindle to publish it before Jan 5th 2017..
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