Random Story To Tell » Words http://www.christon.net random scratches, story to tell Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Story to Tell http://www.christon.net/words/another-story-to-tell/ http://www.christon.net/words/another-story-to-tell/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:12:26 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=613 From many stories that we published on this website, there are some good response and positive feedback from our readers that make us believe that we have to continue writing and publish more stories therefore we just thinking to make improvements on this website.

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/another-story-to-tell/feed/ 0 Wear a Tie http://www.christon.net/words/wear-a-tie/ http://www.christon.net/words/wear-a-tie/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:40:29 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=577 by Kostas Springfield

–”My father is a mirror in which I can only hope to catch a reflection of myself. He is the one I strive to model myself after.”–

“Where would we be right now if I did not have the restaurant? How else would I be able to provide for our family? Who would give me, a man without an education, a job?” My father would say these things whenever we had a father-to-son conversation. We would usually have these talks on car rise Continue reading

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–”My father is a mirror in which I can only hope to catch a reflection of myself. He is the one I strive to model myself after.”–

“Where would we be right now if I did not have the restaurant? How else would I be able to provide for our family? Who would give me, a man without an education, a job?” My father would say these things whenever we had a father-to-son conversation. We would usually have these talks on car rise Continue reading

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/wear-a-tie/feed/ 1 A Legend of Love http://www.christon.net/words/a-legend-of-love/ http://www.christon.net/words/a-legend-of-love/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:29:58 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=565 — If love does not know how to give and take without restriction, it is not love, but a transaction. —Emma Goldman

Edward Wellman bade goodbye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family’s savings hidden in a leather satchel. “Times are desperate here,” he said, hugging his son goodbye. “You are our hope.”

Edward boarded the Atlantic freighter offering free transport to young men Continue reading

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Edward Wellman bade goodbye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family’s savings hidden in a leather satchel. “Times are desperate here,” he said, hugging his son goodbye. “You are our hope.”

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/a-legend-of-love/feed/ 0 My Apple Tree http://www.christon.net/words/my-apple-tree/ http://www.christon.net/words/my-apple-tree/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:26:50 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=554 Condensed from “Eighty Acres”

Ronald Jager

–Year after year, it bears the fruit of blind faith…

That June evening I was about ten. As I stood on our front porch, my eye caught an unusual plant, not more than five inches high. It was the merest seedling, but my father identified it as a young apple tree. Immediately I adopted it. I would transplant it, care for it as my own, and it would thrive. When I was a man and farmed this land, it would bear Continue reading

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Ronald Jager

–Year after year, it bears the fruit of blind faith…

That June evening I was about ten. As I stood on our front porch, my eye caught an unusual plant, not more than five inches high. It was the merest seedling, but my father identified it as a young apple tree. Immediately I adopted it. I would transplant it, care for it as my own, and it would thrive. When I was a man and farmed this land, it would bear Continue reading

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/my-apple-tree/feed/ 0 A Soldier’s Homecoming http://www.christon.net/words/a-soldiers-homecoming/ http://www.christon.net/words/a-soldiers-homecoming/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:26:14 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=550 The powerful thrust of jet engines drove me deep into my seat as the plane rose into the Georgia night. It was July 15, 1969, and only 35 minutes remained of a journey that had begun two days earlier and a world away. First Lt. Hugh Weldon, Infantry, United States Army, was coming home from Vietnam.

As I stared vacantly at the disappearing Atlanta lights, I realized I was different from the fun-loving youngster who had reversed this route a year earlier. Thanks to an unrelenting Continue reading

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As I stared vacantly at the disappearing Atlanta lights, I realized I was different from the fun-loving youngster who had reversed this route a year earlier. Thanks to an unrelenting Continue reading

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/a-soldiers-homecoming/feed/ 1 The Story of An Hour http://www.christon.net/words/the-story-of-an-hour/ http://www.christon.net/words/the-story-of-an-hour/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:21:56 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=540 Kate Chopin (1894)

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Continue reading

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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Continue reading

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/the-story-of-an-hour/feed/ 0 BLOODY MARY http://www.christon.net/words/bloody-mary/ http://www.christon.net/words/bloody-mary/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 07:36:50 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=538 I would like to analyze bloody Mary’s story. After I read the story, the first thing that I want to analyze about the exposition. this play in city street corner. There are five character play in this story. The setting on the street corner in spring. The raising action happened when Joe a man who with one leg and one arm comes and falls in front of Mary.

They introduce them self each other and Mary ask him to make a tourniquet for stop her blood. The conflict happened when Continue reading

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They introduce them self each other and Mary ask him to make a tourniquet for stop her blood. The conflict happened when Continue reading

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]]> http://www.christon.net/words/the-way-to-philadelphia/feed/ 1 My Trip to New York http://www.christon.net/words/my-trip-to-new-york/ http://www.christon.net/words/my-trip-to-new-york/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:57:43 +0000 christon http://www.christon.net/?p=473 Though a brother, I was his apprentice and he considered himself my master. He expected the same services from me as he would from another; while I thought he asked too much of a brother. Our arguments were often brought before our father, and I guess I was either generally in right, or else a better debater, because the judgment was usually in my favor. But I disliked any my apprenticeship and wished for some opportunity to end it. I sold some of my books to get a little money and, with the Continue reading

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