Chasing After a Cab: Ten Sentence Story #141

Joseph saw the wallet fall out of the man’s pocket just as he got into the taxicab, but by the time he ran up to the cab, the man and the cab were gone — his screaming went for naught, presumably viewed by the man and the cab as a ploy to get the cab for himself.

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One of The Most Difficult Things I Have Ever Had to Do: Ten Sentence Story #140

This is a true story about one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do in my life.

For months, my wife and I had a routine — I would rock Chaim Yosef to sleep and then put him down in our bed.

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The Hand of a Guardian Angel: Ten Sentence Story #139

Mary was excited to visit New York City.

She was Midwestern-born and had rarely ventured over 30 miles from her birth place in her 75 years of living.

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Let’s Pretend You Did Not Write that Book: Ten Sentence Story #138

This is a story about a man named Rick Perry who has decided that the past should stay in the past and that things that he may have written in the past should have no bearing on his campaign for being president in the future.

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While Wikipedia Dies: Ten Sentence Story #137

Wikipedia is dying.

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Teabaggery and Tyranny: Ten Sentence Story #136

A gang of misfits hold an entire nation hostage.

They do not want to pay for what the previous misfits approved.

Teabaggery is the new tyranny and the banks and the tycoons are protected while the young and the aged suffer in their insufferable hands.

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A Madman in Norway: Ten Sentence Story #135

Hatred rises in puffs of black soot — smoke from a rifle — the burning remnants of gunfire.

We inhale the putrid stench and poison our culture.

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