Losely based on a true story I read about a while back about the Wednesday morning executions that used to occur during Aphartied in South Africa. The story of a man caught in a world he little understood, The Execution tells of the final moments of his life, the hopes that would carry him, the love that would never escape him and a spirit of brotherhood that not even chains can bind and prisons can't hold captive.

It's in the moments, the seconds that can, if seized, that our lives, they can be altered forever. The chances that we take, the opportunities that we grab hold of, they can come to define our lives in the anticipation that touches our soul. The Coffee Shop is a story that takes those moments where we know we should act, where we know we should do or say something, believing that a miracle can come to encompass our lives. A path of two who feel the draw of one another, it's a journey into the mind of those who dream and wish for something more in their quiet exchanges.

The story of a soldier posted in a remote location, left with nothing more than his thoughts The Outpost is a tale of redemption and hope even when the world just seems hopeless and everything feels like it's been ripped away. The story of two men thrown together by circumstances, both find the opportunity to once more believe that there was such thing as one more chance, it’s about the risks we take for that one last stab at freedom.

It was Ernest Hemingway who once said, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.” Never Gone, Never Forgotten tells the story of one of those haunting moments that can break or destroy the spirit in the hurt and the pain that dwells within it. A story of anguish and grief it’s a journey into the life of one who is left behind to sort out who she is amidst a world she doesn’t quite understand.

Stealing Time is a story of loneliness, and age, of the pain and sorrow of time passing you by and the moments of redemption that you find in the instances of joy that come. The story of one old man’s journey and longing it weaves the tale of a person searching for his lost place in the world, seeking to once more, amidst his desperation, to gain it.

A story set against the backdrop of pre-Civil War America and the Underground Rairoad, Finally Free tells the tale of a onetime slave and her path to freedom as she waits for her love to join her. A tale of faith, hope, patience and perseverance it weaves together the fear and the dread of those early days when men and women would have to be snuck out, hiding as cargo so that they might stand free.

After a lifetime together he longed to once more return to her arms, to hold her, to lose himself in her eyes. Yet with everything that had happened he knew that it was no longer possible and, more than anything, he just missed her. A journey of the worn and tired spirit as it makes its way through the long night, trying to understand the passage of his life. Cold Nights of the Warm Heart is the story of age and the loneliness that can come with it as it passes us by, leaving us to wonder if it's actually our life we remember or somebody elses all together.

A compelling story of loss and hope amidst a world that seemed so dark and distant, given to such despair The Last Will Be First tells of two men passed by in a land of promise and the dreams they that someday they would be able to finally find more. It's about the bonds we form, the optimism that transcends our circumstances and the hurt that can encompass us, it shows a side of life that is often forgotten, but that grips so many in its clutches.

Once so full of life and energy the empty room seems so hollow, the shadow of what it had once been. Darkness seems to fill him as he stands there looking at the bed he had spent years sitting beside reading to his daughter as she softly fell asleep. Now thoughit just conjured hurt and pain and sorrow that seemed to encompass him and he wondered why it had to be this way. Suddenly is a story of hurt and anguish, a story of lost time and those cruel twists of fate that can forever change our lives, shattering the world we knew, leaving us hurt and broken in those places as we desperately search of answers that never quite come.

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