The wolves stopped in their tracks, sizing up the mother and her cubs.

It had been
over a week since their last meal and they were getting desperate. The cubs would
make a good meal, but there were high risks taking on the mother Grizzly. A
decision had to be made and the wrong choice could signal the end of the pack.
I'm meant to be writing at this moment. What I mean is, I'm meant to be writing
something else at this moment. The document I'm meant to be writing is, of course,
open in another program on my computer and is patiently awaiting my attention. Yet
here I am plonking down senseless sentiments in this paragraph because it's easier
to do than to work on anything particularly meaningful. I am grateful for the
distraction.
She nervously peered over the edge. She understood in her mind that the view was
supposed to be beautiful, but all she felt was fear. There had always been
something about heights that disturbed her, and now she could feel the full force
of this unease. She reluctantly crept a little closer with the encouragement of her
friends as the fear continued to build. She couldn't help but feel that something
horrible was about to happen.
He heard the crack echo in the late afternoon about a mile away. His heart started
racing and he bolted into a full sprint. "It wasn't a gunshot, it wasn't a
gunshot," he repeated under his breathlessness as he continued to sprint.
Do you really listen when you are talking with someone? I have a friend who listens
in an unforgiving way. She actually takes every word you say as being something
important and when you have a friend that listens like that, words take on a whole
new meaning.
A long black shadow slid across the pavement near their feet and the five
Venusians, very much startled, looked overhead. They were barely in time to see the
huge gray form of the carnivore before it vanished behind a sign atop a nearby
building which bore the mystifying information "Pepsi-Cola."
It seemed like it should have been so simple. There was nothing inherently
difficult with getting the project done. It was simple and straightforward enough
that even a child should have been able to complete it on time, but that wasn't the
case. The deadline had arrived and the project remained unfinished.
There was little doubt that the bridge was unsafe. All one had to do was look at it
to know that with certainty. Yet Bob didn't see another option. He may have been
able to work one out if he had a bit of time to think things through, but time was
something he didn't have. A choice needed to be made, and it needed to be made
quickly.
I'm going to hire professional help tomorrow. I can't handle this anymore. She fell
over the coffee table and now there is blood in her catheter. This is much more
than I ever signed up to do.
It's not his fault. I know you're going to want to, but you can't blame him. He
really has no idea how it happened. I kept trying to come up with excuses I could
say to mom that would keep her calm when she found out what happened, but the more
I tried, the more I could see none of them would work. He was going to get her
wrath and there was nothing I could say to prevent it.
The computer wouldn't start. She banged on the side and tried again. Nothing. She
lifted it up and dropped it to the table. Still nothing. She banged her closed fist
against the top. It was at this moment she saw the irony of trying to fix the
machine with violence.
Colors bounced around in her head. They mixed and threaded themselves together.
Even colors that had no business being together. They were all one, yet distinctly
separate at the same time. How was she going to explain this to the others?
There wasn't a bird in the sky, but that was not what caught her attention. It was
the clouds. The deep green that isn't the color of clouds, but came with these. She
knew what was coming and she hoped she was prepared.
The trees, therefore, must be such old and primitive techniques that they thought
nothing of them, deeming them so inconsequential that even savages like us would
know of them and not be suspicious. At that, they probably didn't have too much
time after they detected us orbiting and intending to land. And if that were true,
there could be only one place where their civilization was hidden.
He walked down the steps from the train station in a bit of a hurry knowing the
secrets in the briefcase must be secured as quickly as possible. Bounding down the
steps, he heard something behind him and quickly turned in a panic. There was
nobody there but a pair of old worn-out shoes were placed neatly on the steps he
had just come down. Had he past them without seeing them? It didn't seem possible.
He was about to turn and be on his way when a deep chill filled his body.
As she sat watching the world go by, something caught her eye. It wasn't so much
its color or shape, but the way it was moving. She squinted to see if she could
better understand what it was and where it was going, but it didn't help. As she
continued to stare into the distance, she didn't understand why this uneasiness was
building inside her body. She felt like she should get up and run. If only she
could make out what it was. At that moment, she comprehended what it was and where
it was heading, and she knew her life would never be the same.
Sometimes that's just the way it has to be. Sure, there were probably other
options, but he didn't let them enter his mind. It was done and that was that. It
was just the way it had to be.
She wondered if the note had reached him. She scolded herself for not handing it to
him in person. She trusted her friend, but so much could happen. She waited
impatiently for word.
According to the caption on the bronze marker placed by the Multnomah Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution on May 12, 1939, College Hall (is) the
oldest building in continuous use for Educational purposes west of the Rocky
Mountains. Here were educated men and women who have won recognition throughout the
world in all the learned professions.
The robot clicked disapprovingly, gurgled briefly inside its cubical interior and
extruded a pony glass of brownish liquid. "Sir, you will undoubtedly end up in a
drunkard's grave, dead of hepatic cirrhosis," it informed me virtuously as it
returned my ID card. I glared as I pushed the glass across the table.
MaryLou wore the tiara with pride. There was something that made doing anything she
didn't really want to do a bit easier when she wore it. She really didn't care what
those staring through the window were thinking as she vacuumed her apartment.
The spot was perfect for camouflage. At least that's what she thought when she
picked the spot. She couldn't imagine that anyone would ever be able to see her in
these surroundings. So there she sat, confident that she was hidden from the world
and safe from danger. Unfortunately, she had not anticipated that others may be
looking upon her from other angles, and now they were stealthily descending toward
her hiding spot.
She wanted rainbow hair. That's what she told the hairdresser. It should be deep
rainbow colors, too. She wasn't interested in pastel rainbow hair. She wanted it
deep and vibrant so there was no doubt that she had done this on purpose.
All he could think about was how it would all end. There was still a bit of
uncertainty in the equation, but the basics were there for anyone to see. No matter
how much he tried to see the positive, it wasn't anywhere to be seen. The end was
coming and it wasn't going to be pretty.
He looked at the sand. Picking up a handful, he wondered how many grains were in
his hand. Hundreds of thousands? "Not enough," the said under his breath. I need
more.
Things aren't going well at all with mom today. She is just a limp noodle and wants
to sleep all the time. I sure hope that things get better soon.
It was a rat's nest. Not a literal one, but that is what her hair seemed to
resemble every morning when she got up. It was going to take at least an hour to
get it under control and she was sick and tired of it. She peered into the mirror
and wondered if it was worth it. It wasn't. She opened the drawer and picked up the
hair clippers.
I inadvertently went to See's Candy last week (I was in the mall looking for phone
repair), and as it turns out, See's Candy now charges a dollar -- a full dollar --
for even the simplest of their wee confection offerings. I bought two chocolate
lollipops and two chocolate-caramel-almond things. The total cost was four-
something. I mean, the candies were tasty and all, but let's be real: A Snickers
bar is fifty cents. After this dollar-per-candy revelation, I may not find myself
wandering dreamily back into a See's Candy any time soon.
The amber droplet hung from the branch, reaching fullness and ready to drop. It
waited. While many of the other droplets were satisfied to form as big as they
could and release, this droplet had other plans. It wanted to be part of history.
It wanted to be remembered long after all the other droplets had dissolved into
history. So it waited for the perfect specimen to fly by to trap and capture that
it hoped would eventually be discovered hundreds of years in the future.
Many people say that life isn't like a bed of roses. I beg to differ. I think that
life is quite like a bed of roses. Just like life, a bed of roses looks pretty on
the outside, but when you're in it, you find that it is nothing but thorns and
pain. I myself have been pricked quite badly.
This is important to remember. Love isn't like pie. You don't need to divide it
among all your friends and loved ones. No matter how much love you give, you can
always give more. It doesn't run out, so don't try to hold back giving it as if it
may one day run out. Give it freely and as much as you want.
I guess we could discuss the implications of the phrase "meant to be." That is if
we wanted to drown ourselves in a sea of backwardly referential semantics and other
mumbo-jumbo. Maybe such a discussion would result in the determination that "meant
to be" is exactly as meaningless a phrase as it seems to be, and that none of us is
actually meant to be doing anything at all. But that's my existential underpants
underpinnings showing. It's the way the cookie crumbles. And now I want a cookie.
There once lived an old man and an old woman who were peasants and had to work hard
to earn their daily bread. The old man used to go to fix fences and do other odd
jobs for the farmers around, and while he was gone the old woman, his wife, did the
work of the house and worked in their own little plot of land.
Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen early in the morning,
rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds
must have seen it and taken it for an ordinary falling star. It seemed that it fell
to earth about one hundred miles east of him.

Oh dear! I cannot bear to think of that day,--it is too much.--It recalls the great
grief that filled my heart, and the woeful thoughts that passed to and fro through
my mind, whilst listening to the pitiful words of my poor mother, weeping for the
loss of her children. I wish I could find words to tell you all I then felt and
suffered. The great God above alone knows the thoughts of the poor slave's heart,
and the bitter pains which follow such separations as these. All that we love taken
away from us--Oh, it is sad, sad! and sore to be borne!--I got no sleep that night
for thinking of the morrow; and dear Miss Betsey was scarcely less distressed. She
could not bear to part with her old playmates, and she cried sore and would not be
pacified. The black morning at length came; it came too soon for my poor mother and
us. Whilst she was putting on us the new osnaburgs in which we were to be sold, she
said, in a sorrowful voice, (I shall never forget it!) "See, I am shrouding my poor
children; what a task for a mother!"--She then called Miss Betsey to take leave of
us. "I am going to carry my little chickens to market," (these were her very
words.) "take your last look of them: may be you will see them no more." "Oh, my
poor slaves! my own slaves!" said dear Miss Betsey, "you belong to me: and it
grieves my heart to part with you."--Miss Betsey kissed us all, and, when she left
us, my mother called the rest of the slaves to bid us good bye. One of them, a
woman named Moll, came with her infant in her arms. "Ay!" said my mother, seeing
her turn away and look at her child with the tears in her eyes, "your turn will
come next." The slaves could say nothing to comfort us; they could only weep and
lament with us. When I left my dear little brothers and the house in which I had
been brought up, I thought my heart would burst. Our mother, weeping as she went,
called me away with the children Hannah and Dinah, and we took the road that led to
Hamble Town, which we reached about four o'clock in the afternoon. We followed my
mother to the market-place, where she placed us in a row against a large house,
with our backs to the wall and our arms folded across our breasts. I, as the
eldest, stood first, Hannah next to me, then Dinah; and our mother stood beside,
crying over us. My heart throbbed with grief and terror so violently, that I
pressed my hands quite tightly across my breast, but I could not keep it still, and
it continued to leap as though it would burst out of my body. But who cared for
that? Did one of the many by-standers, who were looking at us so carelessly, think
of the pain that wrung the hearts of the negro woman and her young ones? No, no!
They were not all bad, I dare say, but slavery hardens white people's hearts
towards the blacks; and many of them were not slow to make their remarks upon us
aloud, without regard to our grief--though their light words fell like cayenne on
the fresh wounds of our hearts. Oh those white people have small hearts who can
only feel for themselves. At length the vendue master, who was to offer us for sale
like sheep or cattle, arrived, and asked my mother which was the eldest. She said
nothing, but pointed to me. He took me by the hand, and led me out into the middle
of the street, and, turning me slowly round, exposed me to the view of those who
attended the vendue. I was soon surrounded by strange men, who examined and handled
me in the same manner that a butcher would a calf or a lamb he was about to
purchase, and who talked about my shape and size in like words--as if I could no
more understand their meaning than the dumb beasts. I was then put up to sale. The
bidding commenced at a few pounds, and gradually rose to fifty-seven,* (Links to an
external site.) when I was knocked down to the highest bidder; and the people who
stood by said that I had fetched a great sum for so young a slave. I then saw my
sisters led forth, and sold to different owners: so that we had not the sad
satisfaction of being partners in bondage. When the sale was over, my mother hugged
and kissed us, and mourned over us, begging of us to keep up a good heart, and do
our duty to our new masters. It was a sad parting; one went one way, one another,
and our poor mammy went home with nothing. My new master was a Captain I--, who
lived at Spanish Point. After parting with my mother and sisters, I followed him to
his store, and he gave me into the charge of his son, a lad about my own age,
Master Benjy, who took me to my new home. I did not know where I was going, or what
my new master would do with me. My heart was quite broken with grief, and my
thoughts went back continually to those from whom I had been so suddenly parted.
"Oh, my mother! my mother!" I kept saying to myself, "Oh, my mammy and my sisters
and my brothers, shall I never see you again!" Oh, the trials! the trials! they
make the salt water come into my eyes when I think of the days in which I was
afflicted--the times that are gone; when I mourned and grieved with a young heart
for those whom I loved.

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