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The Castle Of Dreams: by Nathaniel A Miller It uses the concept of the times, contemporary Fantasy and the use of a Elvish language u... [5,046 words]
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High Altitude by Tony James Sayers This one is an action thrilled, high octane story, yet to get off the ground. [1,715 words]
The Genome Paradox by Armand Waksberg A short story: What else is hidden in the Genome Code? [9,721 words]
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Wait ! by Buxton - [797 words]
Unwanted Company by Erasmus Flynt - [826 words]
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Train Tracks by Hayley Burdett This is about a woman, remembering her childhood and coming back to the place where she's spent it... [132 words]
The Year Of The Cat by Maria Lapachet The Year of the Cat is writer Maria Lapachet’s first-ever collection of short fiction. The... [1,200 words]
The Sudden Riot by Jannah Akira Are you dreaming? Wake up! [2,982 words]
The Massacre Of Sierra Madre by Kevin Myrick The beginning of a series I'm calling "The Sierra Madre Stories", this is the firs... [3,637 words]
The Man From Sierra Madre by Kevin Myrick The second in the "Sierra Madre Series" with more death and an interesting plot twist... [3,659 words]
The Death Of Smith And Jones In Sierra Madre by Kevin Myrick The next story in the "Sierra Madre Stories" series in which descr... [3,072 words]
The Bus Stop by Hayley Burdett - [209 words]
That Extra S - Mile …. by Partha Pratim Majumder - [1,421 words]
Punk Club Saturdays -- A Memoir by Hayley Burdett - [444 words]
Lost Girl by Abbie Angel A true story about a girl who ran away from home when she was 15 years old. It's about me. [1,526 words]
Lost Girl 3 by Abbie Angel Abbie Angel, 15, is still running. This might be my last entry for a while. [884 words]
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Imagine Alone by Mungo Faust - [471 words]
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Foolish (2) by Malia Harrison A short story. [857 words]
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Baby Shower
Anastasia by Brotherman A love story, dedicated to my uncle.( im gonna work on it more, however) [3,561 words]
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Will Hunter Plays Golf by Higgins The game of a good golfer deteriorates. [997 words]
Waterworld by Bri Q Brisee The combination of muggy heat and absence of water were reaching unbearible levels in a dusty desert... [1,201 words]
Wanted - Unwanted by Partha Pratim Majumder - [1,891 words]
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Thinking About My Father by Kevin Myrick A Sort of Essay/Short Story about the relationship with my father. [979 words]
The Watchers by P J Lawton A young man has a strange encounter and is orderd to keep quiet, after 50 years he finally decides... [1,874 words]
The Tornado Man by Seleta V Johnson A heartwarming tale about a child's faith in God. [1,060 words]
The Letter by Shelley J Alongi Instalment One. A plane crash, a letter, and twenty years of memory cause Alex, a deaf man, and Juli... [5,349 words]
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The Day The Irish Invaded Canada by Paul McCarthy A story of war, love, and intrigue - based on actual events (5.423 words) [5,418 words]
The Classic Good Guy by Lyss Von Puttkammer - [1,711 words]
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Power To Live by Buxton - [82 words]
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Man Undaunted by Matt Brown - [1,883 words]
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In The Womb Of A Bomb by Partha Pratim Majumder Humor sprouts from a real life situation , when at a far off place, a bomb was located in... [2,417 words]
Human Abstract by Skyler Drevan Unusual art exhibit. [4,254 words]
Home At Last by Krista Weiss A short story about a woman's strugle with the transition from single college girl to married moth... [1,281 words]
Future Shock by P J Lawton A young woman gets a glance into the future, can she change her destiny? [1,035 words]
For Love Of Maple Bars by Young Salinger-esque. [1,541 words]
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Dake by Jannah Akira It’s really hard to fall in love. When you fall in love, you’ll find it so hard to let go. When you have l... [7,220 words]
Cogito, Ergo Sum by Erasmus Flynt - [708 words]
Bird Of Prey by E Marc Coe - [2,585 words]
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Time For A Killing by Gregory Jackson A story of a passion and psychological twist which takes place in a rural town. [2,331 words]
Transform by Reid Bryansmith - [4,892 words]
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Tony Sayers Ideologies by Tony James Sayers This is an extremly good bit on philosophy, took me 6 years to do, and I'm damn proud of... [5,889 words]
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Forbidden Goddesses Part One by E Daugherty - [817 words]
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TITLE (EDIT)
Baby Shower
DESCRIPTION
The Year of the Cat is writer Maria Lapachet’s first-ever collection of short fiction. The short stories of this book cover a wide range of themes and human emotions: infidelity, truth, alcoholism, self-sacrifice, redemption, envy, self-esteem issues, and also caring for the lives of other people. Whether it’s just an everyday-of-life type of situation, we can all relate to it.


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TITLE KEYWORD
Relationships
AUTHOR
Maria Lapachet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Spain, Maria lived in Ireland and England for short periods of time. She arrived in the U.S. and eventually settled in Long Island, New York, where she lives with her boyfriend.
She went to Cordoba University (Cordoba, Spain), Granada University (Granada, Spain), the O’Keeffe Memorial Institute (Newmarket, Ireland), and the Nottingham Technological Center (Nottingham, England). She is currently pursuing a degree in Management and Communication at Adelphi University (Garden City, New York).
She has written nearly forty books. Lapachet describes her own ordinary experience with a unique, funny, and true to life style.


[July 2004]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (1)
The Year Of The Cat (Short Stories) The Year of the Cat is writer Maria Lapachet’s first-ever collection of short fiction. The short stories of this book cover a wide range of themes and human emotions: infidelity, truth, alcoholism, s... [1,200 words] [Literary Fiction]
Baby Shower
Maria Lapachet

The woman that is covering her mouth is no longer the woman she used to be. Water runs freely over her right hip. Foam runs down her body as she shaves her legs. She left Freeport two months ago, but she can smell John Werthner’s sweat over her body as if they had been together the night before. Salty, clean, and hot, John’s saliva tastes like the sea, and burns her skin even under this pure, cold, distant water. Vomit escapes now through her fingers as the tears roll down her face.
While she dries her hair, she is thinking about how fast things have changed. Three months earlier, they were at Captain Ben’s Fish Market buying some clams and scungilli. While he was looking for the Chilean bass, she ran to enter the tiny, claustrophobic, white restroom filled with cleaning products and decadent seascape pictures framed in extraordinarily bad taste. The same restroom in which more than once they pressed their bodies against the others in a hurry. It wasn’t the first sign of alarm. A month earlier she had gone to a doctor, “a routine visit” she would tell him, who confirmed her suspicions. She was then six weeks pregnant.
Sitting in the cold, white lavatory, she wasn’t sure whether to tell him or not. She held her head in her hands while considering that John was the kind of man who has more than enough with his own problems. A coward. He would deny it, he would refuse any responsibility, he would call her a liar or, even worse, a whore. Then, having the excuse he had been waiting for so long, he would leave her. Jennifer was no dumb. She knew he wasn’t committed at all. When she met him three years ago, he was committed to another woman, his wife, and that situation hadn’t changed. He never said, “I’m going to leave her.” It conformed her that, at least, he never used the typical “I can’t leave her now, she is not okay, she has a mental problem” that some of her friends had heard from other men. John tried to talk about his wife as little as possible, and when Jennifer wanted to talk about the subject, he avoided straight answers.
After dining, John was holding her in his arms. “I love you,” he whispered. “Oh, Jennie, I love you so much. I’d like things to be different.” He sounded sincere, but he was looking at the clock she had over her night table to see if he was in time to go and play the role of the dedicated husband.
Until that night, until that precise moment, she was happy with what they had. She knew they weren’t the typical couple of lovers, and was somehow proud of their mature relationship. Jennifer believed that they had a serious relationship. Maybe a strange relationship in the eyes of the rest of the world, but a serious and steady one in her eyes. She thought that his marriage was only an obstacle they would conquer some day. She believed they would end living together. She wanted to live with him. She wanted to live with him so badly . . . But she knew that she couldn’t hurry the situation. She and Kathy, one of her friends from the college years, fantasized about getting into his house, throwing out his wife’s toiletries, slashing any photo of the two of them she could find, and sleeping in their bed while they were away. Or going to that karaoke bar he goes with her and their mutual friends to stand in front of them and sing a psycho version of “Under My Skin.” Or sending the happy couple a basket filled with their favorite chocolate—poisoned.
John was holding her, not knowing that he was taking away the little self-esteem she had left with the cheap words he was using to justify his departure. “We are both mature, and know what’s best for both of us, don’t we?” She knew it was time to go for him, and that she had another long, lonely sleepless night in front of her. She was mature enough to understand that things were better that way, but, at the same time, she couldn’t avoid thinking that things were better only for him. And she could understand that he had to keep the appearances, but couldn’t understand why he was leaving her alone. She could understand that his family needed him, but couldn’t avoid wondering why he was leaving her A-L-O-N-E. And she could understand that he was a loving father, but couldn’t understand why they had to sleep in the same bed. And she could understand that he was losing more than her while wasting his family’s quality time to be with her, but couldn’t understand why it didn’t seem to be enough for her when she was supposed to be a modern, mature, and independent woman in her midthirties who would accept that situation happily. And that tortured her. Was she an independent, mature woman or a perfect idiot? While John was rubbing her arms, she was in a distant place. She could understand that he had to leave, but still, she couldn’t understand why he had to tell her he loved her while looking in the night table direction to find out what time it was. “Oh, that’s it. That is it! I know better than this. Fuck him!” she said to herself.
John was getting dressed, and she knew it would be the last time she saw his pitiful ritual. Sometimes everything he said sounded like a lie, but she wanted to believe him. And that night she wanted him to stay, but she just said, “John, go home,” and opened the door for him. That was the night she decided to leave him.
As she was lying on the bed in her bedroom, all she could hear was the distant sound of the crickets outside. She foresaw a damned headache and an uncertain future.




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