Submissions by JPYoung
Veteran’s Preference
Story
‘Everything you are comes from your choices.’ — Jeff Bezos
3 mins
Words: 748
Read Time: 3 mins
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Ambling on an Ash Wednesday
Story
‘I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.’ — Henry David Thoreau
4 mins
Words: 874
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Almost All or Nothing at All
Story
‘Opposites attract…then attack…’ - Barbara Bradley Hagerty
4 mins
Words: 881
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Two for the Yule
Story
‘The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.’ – Burton Hills
4 mins
Words: 921
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Penny Valentine from an Unknown Woman
Story
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan
4 mins
(2)Words: 929
Read Time: 4 mins
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Amanda’s Jacaranda Veranda
Story
‘And Spring arose on the garden fair, like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast, rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.’ - Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 mins
(1)Words: 931
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Assignation in a Technological Time
Story
A man muses on how wonderful technology is on the most fateful day of his life.
4 mins
Words: 966
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Big Deal at a Camellia Cotillion
Story
‘Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.’ — Gérard de Nerval
4 mins
Words: 981
Read Time: 4 mins
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The Inevitable Bells of Change
Story
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn
4 mins
Words: 998
Read Time: 4 mins
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Just One of Those Things
Story
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5 mins
Words: 1013
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Sir Justin’s Quest Goes West!
Poem
In days of old, when knights were bold…
5 mins
Words: 1022
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins