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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 1 min
DARK DREAM
I see now that Death is a friend. It comes to me at my life’s end. I grasp its hand, cold and bony. It lives a life so very lonely,...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 3 min
FRIGHT NIGHT
Once upon a moonless night, Came my greatest fright. In bed with the silence of the night, My heart nearly leaped into flight. A shadow...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 5 min
HOW SNAKES GOT THEIR LONG BODIES
Once upon a time there was a land with a beautiful green forest. At the edge of the forest there was a huge, beautiful tree, whose...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 7 min
HOW GIRAFFES GOT THEIR LONG NECKS
Once upon a time, in the vast plains of Africa, there lived two giraffe families. Each had a mother and a father. One family had a...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 95 min
DODGE CITY, KANSAS, 1871
Twenty-five-year-old, well-educated schoolteacher, Tom Hawken, must leave Boston quickly to avoid the consequences of a false paternity...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 99 min
DODGE CITY, KANSAS, 1870
During the early morning hours of a warm spring day in May, I needed to leave Boston as quickly as possible. I was rushed, but I had to...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 4 min
LOVE MACHINES
Lively, little, love machines. Dogs. I have two of them, a terrier, chihuahua mixture, Frosty is white and Toby is a reddish tan. They...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 11 min
WALKING ON A PSYCHOPATH
How can you tell if a magician is a psychopath? He makes people disappear but never reappears. ******* Just because you happen to be a...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 48 min
TWO DIFFERENT MEN
Hell! At the end of my criminal career, I came away with a story to tell my grandkids about the day I shit diamonds. I’m Harvey Ellis and...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 25 min
TROUBLE AT THE M-E HIGH SCHOOL
She is a stunningly beautiful, well-shaped, redhead. Sharyn Brunnell was envied for her beauty. Her beauty brought out the ugly head of...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 21 min
THE MOURNING TREE
Samuel presently saw himself as being kind, but skeptical about many of life’s traditional ideas, which made him extremely curious about...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 14 min
STEEL WHALES
They are the Godzillas in the oceans. They are stealthy, moderately fast, and as dangerous as a water moccasin in your bathtub water. The...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 14 min
A REST STOP
As I drove south on route I-70, I wondered how many car crashes had occurred due to the driver being tired and falling asleep at the...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 16 min
JIM JOHNSON
Jim Johnson wasn’t a giant of a man, 5’10”, medium build short brown hair, brown eyes, and a light beard all on a canvas of sun-browned...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 23 min
IN COLD BLOOD
“I’m sorry, Mary. I truly am. It won’t happen again. I promise.” Mary’s slender body ached from the bruised cheekbone and the black eye....
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 11 min
I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING
I have been a detective first-grade for twenty of my thirty-four years as a police officer. Sure, after many years, I am tired and numbed...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 11 min
GLASS JARS
“Timmy, you have used up almost all of my glass spice jars. What are you doing with them?” “Just collecting small things, insects, and...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 69 min
NEW DETECTIVE, HARRY ELMORE, JR.
I’m a police officer following in the footsteps of my father. Like him, solving mysteries makes it easier to get up each morning. I like...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 14 min
CARDINAL
The first time I saw him, he was perched on a slim tree limb about twenty feet ahead of me. He was quietly settled, motionless. No fear...
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billsheehan1
- May 26
- 41 min
BOY SCOUT CAMP
Looking back, I remember that the Russians started the space race with Sputnik, Elvis Presley topped the music chart with his song ‘All...
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