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The Old Lady

Posted by Ken Hiebert on Saturday, April 27, 2019, In : Stories 
When I moved to Morden (for the second time) in 1999, I bought a small house as a fixer-upper.  It needed a lot of work but I knew how to do the work and I got a good deal on the house so for me as a bachelor it was a pretty sweet deal.  The house was (and still is) right behind the Chinese restaurant and so was not immune to the various aromas that are part of that whole deal.

A couple of weeks after I moved in, I was out in the back yard on a particularly beautiful fall morning and noticed t...

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The Cat on the Road

Posted by Ken Hiebert on Sunday, April 21, 2013, In : Stories 

The Cat on the Road


Here's a story I got from my brother that apparently happened to a guy he worked with. True or not, it definitely makes a good story.
  
Apparently this dude had shown up for work a half hour late one Monday morning, but lucky for him he had an excellent excuse.  It seems he had been driving a little fast on the way to work that morning and hadn't seen the neighbor's cat as it sprinted across the road.  He swerved and hammered on the brakes but still hit the poor animal....

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The Bridge

Posted by Ken Hiebert on Sunday, December 2, 2012, In : Stories 

The Bridge



The old man stood, leaning on his pole in the bow of his small craft, gazing intently across the wide river at the massive structure. Dozens of men were crawling all over it like so many ants on a stick.


He remembered a time when men weren’t so proud - a time when they accepted there were things they didn’t understand, things they could not do. Now it seemed as though there was nothing they wouldn’t attempt. They seemed to believe there was nothing they couldn’t s...


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I'm a guitar instructor in a small town. I love teaching and I love playing music. I also love doing things that have nothing to do with music... or teaching... or teaching music.