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I have 734 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 700979 times and 150 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Joseph Xavier Martin

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You Can't Go Home Again

By jxmartin on Sun, 03 Aug 2014

“You Can’t Go Home Again” You hear the words often enough, “You can’t go home again.” Novelist Thomas Wolfe is most often credited with the phrase...
Rant
Non-fiction
Certificate U

The Pull Up Society of Left Turn People

By jxmartin on Tue, 15 Jul 2014

The Pull Up Society of Left Turn People As late as the middle part of the twentieth century in America, we were a nation of small towns with mom and...
Non-fiction
Certificate U

The Goofy Good Will of Families

By jxmartin on Thu, 03 Jul 2014

The goofy good will of families We were sitting in our kitchen one morning drinking coffee and reading the daily paper. “I got a call from my sister...
Story
Certificate 18

Big Chill Redux part II

By jxmartin on Sat, 28 Jun 2014

I did make a number of great friends, some of whom I have shared friendship with for forty years. I have lots of tales to tell of that Delta Kappa...
Non-fiction
Certificate 18

Big Chill Redux

By jxmartin on Thu, 26 Jun 2014

I recently watched this excellent movie for the umpteenth time. The tsunami of memories flooded through me like with a flood of images that made me...
Rant
Non-fiction
Certificate 18

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