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| Poem (c) 2000 Jessica Krattinger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poems will be updated monthly. DREAM OF TOMORROW Yesterday can not be changed And events - never rearranged. The what ifs and might have beens, Are gone and must let today begin. Yesterday is here no more, Open today?s silver door. Let the future come in To your careless urban din. Tomorrow has not yet been made And yet plans are beginning to fade. Life can be rich and true, So believe the strength in you. Don?t think of yesterday?s past, Dream of tomorrow to come at last. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Haiku (c) 2000 Jessica Krattinger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Haiku will be updated monthly. Bye! Old century First Millennium is gone Welcome the New Year! Volcanoes erupt Fiery tentacles reach High into the sky. Mute eyes wish to speak Of the light that surrounds them, Plant the seeds of sight. Chaotic state of Internal anarchy lies Hauntingly within. Reflections of life Bright and alive shine outward Casting its warm glow. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short Story (c) 2000 Jessica Krattinger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short Stories will be updated monthly. | IN A MOMENT OF DESPIRATION Bob Carton was a lawyer. He received his law degree a year ago, passed the bar and started with the State of Florida as an Assistant District Attorney. He and his fianc�e, Carol, were going to be wed when he got back from a business trip to Europe. The State Attorney General of Florida sent him on an important case to Europe. It involved a murder. Bob won this case, and Steve Hampton, the murderer, was sent to jail. The next day Bob had a train ticket to Paris, where he would get off, and onto an airplane for the U.S. But he never made it to Paris. As I tell you this story, think about how brave he was to risk his life. At 8 p.m. Bob Carton stepped onto an Express Train to Paris. The train had two engines, six passenger cars, and one dining car. Bob Carton was in the last passenger car. Since it was a five-hour trip, he brought plenty of magazines and papers from his murder case to read. About an hour later, Bob Carton and other passengers on the passenger car felt the train slow up, stop, then speed up really fast. All the windows were down and locked so they couldn?t see what was happening. But they felt like the train was going backwards. Bob jumped up and ran towards the door. It was locked. He began pushing as hard as he could against the door. Two other men came over to help him. Finally the door opened just a bit, and Bob was able to kick the door open. He reached on to the side and saw a ladder. Grabbing it he swung to the side of the car. The train was going downhill at high speed. So far there weren?t any curves in sight, but if they hit one curve, the car would fly straight off the track. He yelled back to the two men. ?We?re going downhill really fast, and there?s no way to stop it. Get the women and children off the car as fast as you can before we hit a curve.? Bob clung to the ladder and watched for a curve. One by one women and children jumped off the runaway train into the grass by the side of the track. After a few passengers jumped, they started to take it more seriously and panicked. You could hear the children crying and women screaming. The two men tried to help the passengers off as fast as they could, but it wasn?t fast enough. Seconds later Bob saw a tight curve up ahead. He screamed at the top of his lungs, ?Curve ahead, curve ahead.? Other men pushed the two men that were helping out of the way. Many people were just diving off. Bob refused. He pushed his way back in and grabbed a woman and her child. He pushed them to the front and both dived off. Bob went back to find more passengers. He was told several times to jump off, but he didn?t. The curve came and the passenger car vaulted off the track and down a hill smashing it into tiny pieces. Because of Bob Carton, thirty-eight passengers out of forty-five lived. Bob had a memorial plaque made for him. It was put in the main passenger terminal in Paris to commemorate the bravery of an average citizen. Bob?s family was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor. He received it for actions, which went beyond the call of duty. Carol never married, became a nun, and longed for him to come back.
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