Recluse

“…[T]here really is no valid excuse for an able-bodied person going out
of his head from being bewildered in the big woods so long as he has a
gun and ammunition, or even a few dry matches and a jackknife.” This was the daily stated philosophy of Junior Beets, a devil may care recluse in the backwoods of Utopia.

Junior was getting tired of the backpackers traveling more frequently around his self proclaimed property.

Of course Junior had no rights concerning the surroundings of his area which was a world designed park in 2025.

Utopia was designed by the desperate survivors of the corona virus that wiped out ninety percent of the world population by 2023.

Junior Beets decided guns would ensure his privacy and started hoarding them in 2020.

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Birthday Celebration

Never forgotten, a well celebrated birthday, you might even think it a classic. She entered with a joyful look—even at eighty-five this woman danced into the room. A classic entrance indeed for the lifelong performer. “No stopping me” was a mantra she professed to others and practiced all of her life.

The diva, well celebrated in her youth, still spent her days teaching dance of many genres in her penthouse studio in New York. Young hopefuls filled with promise filtered in and out of her apartment every day. The mantra she touted was a mindful inspiration to her students.

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MLMM Tale Weaver 276

Books, books, wherever you look

Piled here and there in nannies and crooks

Every one that is read and devoured

Read and feel your mind empowered

Adventures many found in the pages

Romance, mystery or political rages

All bring knowledge to the reader

Plus an imagination feeder

Reading to children in any form

They will develop beyond the norm.

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FFftPP 5-20-20

Reaching for what everyone told him was impossible, he had never given up. Hoping the turquoise sand held the secret he had to reveal, the plant was the perfect marker found. Could it be here? After years of diving into blue green seas, Jack was sure he would find the answer to his lifelong quest. He pulled, dug into the sand, and there it was. The promised treasure, his mother’s keepsake.

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