Passing By: A 100 Word Story

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Malboro Lights.

$10 a pack.

My one pleasure.

Looks like rain.

Should put away the porch chair.

Dark sky for miles.

Fall in the air.

All those cold Saturdays at the football field.

Cheer-leading.

Yelling, dancing and twirling.

No one heard us.

Team went 1 and 14.

Should have stayed home, mom said.

Mom’s cough, the phlegmy chorus of my 30s.

Now her bedroom stores my photo albums, my winter clothes, 

         and the baby carriage.

Empty.

16^th floor.

So close I could spit on that train.

Instead, I flick my cigarette, hoping it jolts someone who’s on their way somewhere.

                                                                                                   

2014 Winter Olympian OR Charles Dickens Character?

Guess who is who . . . 

1)               Noddy Boffin

2)               Caleb Flaxey

3)               Jerry Cruncher

4)               Chemmy Alcott

5)               Rosamund Musgrave

6)               Flora Finching

7)               Seth Pecksniff

8)               Michael Goodfellow

9)               Wackford Squeers

10)                                  Slim Sellis

11)                                  Simon Tappertit

12)                                  Richard Shoebridge

13)                                  Kit Nubbles

14)                                  Winston Watts

15)                                  Jeremiah Flintwich

16)                                  Rowan Cheshire

17)                                  Luke Honeythunder

18)                                  Jesse Cockney

19)                                  Anne Chickenstalker  

20)                                  Huang Xingtong

Dickensian characters:       #1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19

2014 Olympians:                #2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20