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- From: jturner@lonestar.utsa.edu (John M. Turner)
- Subject: Re: A story
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:14:04 GMT
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- In article <Bxt3tL.9sL@willamette.edu> pcurtis@willamette.edu (Paul E. Curtis) writes:
- >Here is a short story I've just written. 'Fraid it's not one of my best, but
- >it's been a long time since I've written any fiction, so I s'pose I can
- >attibute that to lack of practice. Anyway, ragged tho' it may be, here 'tis:
- >
- >
- >
- > ...transit
- > ----------
- ***Story regretably cut down to conserve the bandwidth***
-
- >They had parted, as they had always known that they must. Oh, they'd
- >exchanged addresses, and promised to write frequently, but it was little
- >consolation. He sat in his economy-class seat, still unshaven, still
-
- God, how I hate to think about times like this. I've had far too many
- lately....
-
- >jet-lagged, and nearly as despondent as he'd ever been. Why is it that we
- >meet the most intriguing people at the most inopportune times? Why doesn't
- >romance ever cooperate with the business of life?
-
- If anybody figures this one out, they ought to get a medal!
-
- >And why, oh why, couldn't he have been born 5,000 miles away, to share his
- >life with the most special person he had ever known?
- >
- >He sighed heavily, and with his copy of the International Herald Tribune
- >tucked well away in the overhead luggage bin, instead opened his duty-free
- >bag, to examine the liter of Sherry he'd bought prior to take-off.
- >
- >Inside the bag, alongside his bottle of wine, he found a single red rose.
- >
- >So, he thought, there is some justice in the world, after all--and instead of
- >cursing whoever had invented Love, he praised the person whose idea it was to
- >put a florist's shop in the airport. Some things are worth the pain.
- >
- >He even managed a smile, as the airplane flew over the hills and far away.
-
- WONDERFUL STORY! Thank you for sharing it!
-
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- Wishing I were with a certain someone right now...
- John "J.T." Turner
-