It had been nearly two years since she had last laid eyes on the contents of her safe deposit box, according to the signature card at the bank. Hard to believe so much time had passed. Her reason for today’s visit was mostly sentimental; her grandmother’s birthday was in a week or so. As she always did around this time of year, she began missing her grandmother terribly, and on…
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The Swing.
It was their favorite spot to sit, that creaky old swing that had long ago become a rusty relic from days gone by. Most evenings they sat side by side on that swing, THEIR swing, and watched leaves fall and basked in the peace that enveloped the lake. He kept his eyes on the movements of the fish; she kept her eyes on him. After decades of better and worse,…
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A Righteous (and Strictly Fictional) Husband.
If you haven’t read part One of the story, click here to read first.As one can imagine, finding a suitable mate for a righteous and upstanding lady such as Mother Needlenose proved a formidable task: righteous and upstanding men worthy a perfectly sinless wife are few and far between. And the most obvious choice, Billy Graham, was already taken. Therefore Mother Needlenose was well on her way to achieving Old…
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A Righteous and Upstanding (and Strictly Fictional) Family.
Once upon a time, in a small town in East Texas, there lived a very righteous and upstanding family: the Needlenoses. Everyone knew the Needlenose family was righteous and upstanding because every Sunday, they were at the big Baptist church downtown. And not only was the righteous and upstanding Needlenose family at church, they were front and center at church….sitting in a nice neat row in their pew… every single…
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