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Afternoon was Mrs. Conroy's favorite time of day. After a hard day at work, her eyes were tired and her feet hurt. She enjoyed the nice long nap s...

As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it ...

"Sheesh! Give me a few points for self control!" I snapped at my cranky（暴躁的） husband. I wanted to stop at a sporting goods store "Going...

Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl.One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl n...

During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz.I was a careful student and had breezedthrough the questions until I read t...

The rumor proved all too bitterly true: Park's Hardware, a downtown institution of Orono, Maine, since 1898, would be closing.Word spread quickly....

"Leave him alone" I yelled as I walked out of the orphanage gate and saw several of the Spring Park School bullies pushing the deaf kid arou...

The boy jerked about and then made a sound that I will never forget for as long as I live. It was the sound like a whale makes when it has been harpoo...

They dragged me by my legs, screaming and yelling for more than several hundred yards through the dirt and pine-straw to the waiting police car. All I...

My mom only had one eye.I hated her. She was such an embarrassment.She ran a small shop at a flea market and collected old clothes and some other thin...