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Red Salmon
John C. Laird Red Salmon
  • Fiction
  • English
  • 1153 Words
  • Ages 10 and up
  • 472
  • 10

Helping her father in his recession-crippled, charter fishing business, Becky prayed that the dwindling salmon population would someday return...

Keywords: boat, fishing, salmon, boredom, recession, climate change, global warming

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Going Home
J. C. Laird Going Home

Short Story

  • Drama
  • English
  • 3362 Words
  • Ages 14 and up
  • 957
  • 34

Following a terrorist bombing at a crowded sports arena, a young woman is trapped in the rubble, dying and alone. Someone sees her, stops and stays with her until the end...

Keywords: Short Stories, Thrillers, Short Thrillers, Crime, Terrorism, Terrorists, Death, Angels, Fiction, God, Heaven, Hell, Short Story

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Doctor Frosty
John C. Laird Doctor Frosty
  • Family & Relationships
  • English
  • 1698 Words
  • Ages 0 and up
  • 706
  • 9

A mother loses her only child to a devastating illness. How does she mend the frayed ends of her life and move on? Or can she? And what of her husband?

Keywords: Fiction, Family, Children, Illness, Snowman, Short Story

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Together As One
John C. Laird Together As One
  • Drama
  • English
  • 1530 Words
  • Ages 16 and up
  • 570
  • 13

It was a dream come true; a beautiful woman had chosen him over everyone else. But the line between dreams and nightmares is a fine one. . .

Keywords: Fiction, Goddess, Death, romance, sexual situation, Short Story

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Connections
John C. Laird Connections
  • Romance
  • English
  • 1190 Words
  • Ages 10 and up
  • 557
  • 10

An old man and a young woman, brought together by their separate journeys through life.

What were the odds that they would find love, happiness and a future together?

Keywords: Fiction, romance, love, death, old man, young woman, Heaven, short story

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Shadows Passing
J. C. Laird Shadows Passing
  • Drama
  • English
  • 1796 Words
  • Ages 10 and up
  • 684
  • 18

History revisited...Dusk was upon them; clutching their cache of apples, the children ran. The deadly shadows lurked in the darkness, ready to rain fire and destruction from above...

Keywords: Flash fiction, word count, 1000

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