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I have 795 stories published in
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My stories have been read 829012 times
and 186 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Joseph Xavier Martin
My stories
Tears of the Innocents
I saw a seventeen-year-old girl cry today and it made me angry. The young girl was being interviewed by a local television reporter about the effects...
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- 511 reads
International Women's Day
International Women’s Day is today. It is a fitting celebration for the most important person in most of our lives. Wife, mother, aunt, sister,...
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Lenten Fish Frys
Lenten Fish Frys In an Irish Catholic neighborhood like South Buffalo the Friday night fish fry, during Lent, is a ritual as unbending and as regular...
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Save it for good !
Save It For Good It is an expression from child hood that I still sometimes use. Growing up in a large family, with limited resources, meant that...
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The Origin of Stories
My niece, Jennifer Grisanti, a Los Angeles based film and movie script-writing consultant, posted an intriguing comment the other day. “The void...
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