Oliver stopped going to church after his parents died when he was a young boy. His grandmother tried to persuade him to return to no avail, but he still refused until something terrible happened to her. Oliver got desperate and went back to church for help and found something more instead.Thirteen-year-old Oliver stared at the empty street where the ambulance had disappeared from view. His grandmother suffered some attack during a discussion with him. He told her that believing in God was foolish, and she fainted.He had no idea what else to do but call 911, and she was taken…
Author: town gist
A woman who never had children greets a girl claiming to be her daughter happily and takes her into her heart and her home, but years later the truth comes out.If it wasn’t the worse day of Patsy Malone’s life, it was in the top three. She had woken up feeling despondent and had caught a glimpse of herself in the full-length mirror in her bedroom. Was that who she had become?Pretty Patsy Malone with her sunny smile, the girl who could dance all night, had been transformed into this frumpish creature with straggling gray hair and deep lines of…
An old woman observes a daylight robbery that leaves a child in tears, and she quickly reacts, using her unassuming disposition to fool the thieves into a trap.Isabel Gaines feared no one. She was 73 and was a baker who loved making cakes above any other thing. The old woman was content with her lot in life and never complained about anything. All of her baking was done at her home, and she proudly delivered her cake to a mall cafe in a neighboring district. They didn’t pay her a lot, and she didn’t have a lot of money; however,…
For a long time, Morris looked for his wife, who disappeared a few months after their wedding. She was pregnant, and he had no idea what had happened. But at 78 years old, he received a message on Facebook and couldn’t believe who sent it.“This can’t be happening. Clark Garrison has to be lying,” Morris whispered to himself as he looked at the message he had just received on Facebook. Although he was an older man at 78 years old, he had managed to keep up with the times and knew how to handle a laptop and all kinds of…
A young waitress at a small-town restaurant recognizes an old homeless man by his old broken down western boots, and from then on she gives him free meals.Jane Kendric was getting tired of all the homeless drunks showing up during the late-night shift trying to cadge a free meal or a cup of hot coffee. “It’s really the truckers’ fault! They kept giving these derelicts a ride,” she thought, “But I have to put up with them!”Jane screwed up her face into the unfriendliest expression she could manage as a man in a dirty overcoat shuffled towards her. “What do…
At 16, Carol injured herself during one of her cheerleading practices. Everyone thought she was fine, but they were wrong. She started to lose her memories, and the doctors revealed something they couldn’t believe. But another tragedy happened in the family, and Carol changed once again.“I’m sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Webber. But there’s a chance that your daughter might not remember anything beyond today,” Dr. Wilson revealed the shocking diagnosis of their daughter.Two weeks ago, Carol fell during her cheerleading practice. She stood up and walked it off, thinking nothing of it. But that night, her parents noticed how she…
An old woman observes a boy’s unusual routine at the local park, and when her curiosity could no longer bear it, she tries to find out more. Lily Bolton was a 70-year-old woman loved and respected by everyone around her. She and her husband Jim Bolton were a popular couple in their small town. It was, after all, where they were both born and brought up. Every day for the past ten years, Lily and her husband have made it a habit of theirs to take a walk alongside her husband and their dog at a local park.Their dog, Bruno,…
A woman who has been living in seclusion since the death of her son is perplexed when she receives a letter 13 years later from a boy who addresses her as “mom” and invites her to his prom.When Patricia Walker lost her 3 year-old-son Bobby to a fatal illness, she never envisioned her life would deteriorate further. But, alas, it did, and it didn’t take long for it to happen.Because only two years after Bobby’s death, Patricia lost her significant other, Edward. He couldn’t bear the pain of losing their only child, and while he’d helped Patricia get through her…
A rich man marries a poor girl against his family’s wishes. They have three children and are very happy until he has to take over the family business.Rick Pace fell in love with Ada the moment she served his caramel latte. He kept coming back to the same café day after day until he persuaded her to go out with him. Six months later he proposed and she accepted.Rick’s family was outraged when they discovered he was marrying a penniless orphan from Queens, but he didn’t care. He loved Ada. He took a job in a Fortune 500 company in…
These incidents are being reportedly mainly in the diaspora but today onlookers were treated to a free drama when a woman and her lover undressed each other in the CBD as they were fighting over US$2500.In the video, the woman was saying her lover was trying to take her money by force. She is heard saying that the lover had taken USD$2500 from her purse and was refusing to give the money back. This led to the woman retaliating by tearing apart the clothes the man was wearing. She undressed him until his pr!vates were exposed..