Tag: ShortStory
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Anne – Part 17 – Kinetico – Shaky Paradise
Kinetico Fortunately, I did find a full-time job as a technical writer after a few months of part-time jobs. I was hired by Kinetico in Newbury, Ohio, to write proposals and manuals for their Reverse Osmosis and other filtered water systems, which they manufactured on the site. It was a 45-minute drive to and from…
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Anne – Part 16 – My Tech-writing Job Ends
My Tech-writing Job Ends Shortly after my return from Grammy’s funeral, they started laying off people at work. It became evident that my days were numbered, too. So, I offered to resign if they would continue to use me as a contractor. There were still a couple of manuals that needed to be done. I…
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Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies – 1993
Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies 1993 About a year into my adventure in technical writing, my maternal grandmother died. She was 98. She had fallen and broken a hip. She had a hip replacement. I was told that she came out of the surgery fine. but after a few days in recovery, quit…
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Steed
Steed At least I have my wheels, my vehicle,My shiny, faithful, always trusty, steed. When she treats me well, she’s My sweet machine, My cherry ride, My shiny sweet serene. But when she’s fickle or broken down, she’s My god damn, My rust bucket, My infernal, My death trap, My garbage scow. She’s the kind…
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Anne – Part 12 – Full-time College
Full-time at Hiram College I started going to Hiram on the weekends prior to being sent to Chicago. Eaton was paying my tuition as long as I passed my courses. Of course, after they fired me, that stopped. So, I took my unemployment and what savings I had and started going to school at Hiram…
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Secret Dreams
Secret Dreams I had secret dreams But Called four-eyes and sissyI held the dreams insideI couldn’t let theName-callers see I’d rather play with wordsThan fight all dayWatching and laughingDancing and singing Careening and preeningOn the snowy plainsOf my journal –LE
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Where They Never Say Your Name
Where They Never Say Your Name by Eilen Jewell I rode sixteen wheels all the waySixteen nights and lonely daysI’m going back, I wish I never cameI’m going someplace where they never say your name You kept me up all night with your coke and ginLeft me next morning and turned me inAnd that’s evil,…
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Anne – Part 10 – Problems In Paradise
Problems in Paradise Some troubling incidents started to present themselves early in the marriage. Anne wanted to handle our finances, and that was fine with me. So, we had joint checking and savings accounts. We both put our paychecks into the checking account and had 10% moved to the savings account monthly. The problems started…
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Premature Death
Spirit vs Form – A Poor Life vs No Life 11/1/83This poem fits into the timeline of the memoir around this point. Chris (my brother) told me of our tragedy last night, the death of my sister Becky’s baby, only 2 hrs old. Time for another reassessment of my views on life, death, and the…
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Black River Mystery
Black River Mystery down in the Black Riverfloodplain not far fromcattails and clumps ofriver-birch, snuggled inwith rag-weed, QueenAnne’s Lace and St. John’sWort sits a square patchof young five and sevenfrond-leaf plantings sixfeet high, approachingharvest strength – perhapsnext week where did they gobig mystery of the floodplaindry patch of ground – fiveand seven frond dream-makers gone…
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