Stories tagged with "september 11"
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Wake Me Up When September Ends (Music Challange)
by Artist_Girl 5 months ago
The alarm rang through the room, the sound pounding his head. There was a stain on the celing. He reould should get around to…
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Drop the Bottom Out
by THX 0477 12 months ago
I’ve got one kid cleaning his room, just peeled another off the window, and the third, well, she just wants to dance. And thi…
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Rockland County, NY: Staten Island Refugees and Me.
by BARomero 12 months ago
After 9/11, some people from our Staten Island office are temporarily transferred to our office, as the phone system there ha…
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Rockland County, NY: Aftermaths and Anniversaries I
by BARomero 12 months ago
The next several weeks, the local paper releases names of people who died that day. I morbidly scan the first few days for na…
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And They Fell
by Laine P. Grey 12 months ago
Students’ cellphones began to ring and teachers collected them (in strict adherence to the “don’t hear, don’t see” rule) with…
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Average High School
by Laine P. Grey 12 months ago
It was an average day at Average High School, and everything was… well, average.
None of the students were above average,...
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Rockland County, NY: Aftermaths and Anniversaries II
by BARomero 12 months ago
The second anniversary is another solemn memorial to those lost, but it’s smaller in scale. The third, forth, and fifth years…
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Rockland County, NY: The Odyssey
by BARomero 12 months ago
My office closes at 10:30, and I meet with my parents. Together we try to contact my aunt, but phone lines are still overload…
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Rockland County, NY: A Perfect Tuesday Morning in September
by BARomero about 1 year ago
What’s normally a 15-minute commute by car, takes close to a hour by bicycle, but it’s a perfect day out, so I opt for the ex…
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Rockland County, NY: The Confusion
by BARomero about 1 year ago
We’re half an hour north of the city, but news comes to us in bits and pieces. We don’t get good radio reception in our offic…
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