Owen E Richason IV

The Long and Short of the Short Story

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Nervously counting the few, small bills left in her wallet, she knew it would buy just enough gas to get back and forth from work, but not for the week, when a stranger approached, handed her a $100 bill, and said “Merry Christmas.”

Expansive bright blue skies extended westward far past the sight of his young eyes, over calm, aquamarine almost emerald-colored water. Curling up his tiny toes, he could feel the white powder sand under his bare feet as he looked in the...

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Linnea sat quietly sobbing in her tiny studio apartment as she read over all the details on her baby boy’s birth certificate. It was all she had left to…

Baby Lewis was just five months old when she became ill with diarrhea on August 29th, 1854. The little girl named Frances was barely out of her mother’s womb and less than halfway through infancy when her condition acutely worsened. She died on September 2nd, five days later. Just six days after...

Her name was Topsy. Exotic by almost every measure, the unique twenty-eight-year-old circus performer hailed from Asia and mesmerized countless crowds for nearly half a decade. Now, deemed unsavable by her trainer, a mean, drunken individual who routinely beat her, despite her...

A handsome eighteenth-century sea warfare captain, an argumentative and quick-tempered individual, sails into history by fighting and winning seemingly insurmountable naval battles without a warship…

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