Stories
The House I Put Six Thousand Toward Sits Eighty Steps From My Porch
My grandson's bedroom lamp flashed a DISTRESS SIGNAL at my front window for three weeks…
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Stories
My grandfather threw baseballs at milk bottles for that silver horse in 1968
It was only my mother and me, in three rooms over a hardware store in…
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The Woman At The Service Desk Had Been To My Wife’s Funeral
People laughed at me in the checkout, the baby asleep against my neck and the…
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I Carried an $11,016 Loan for a Chair She Rode Thirty-One Hours
The lender rang my desk at nine-fifteen to say the loan in my name was…
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Thirty-Five Afternoons She Practiced For Him, And He Took Her Microphone
My ten-year-old saved a seat for the man NOBODY on our block would nod to.…
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The Test Was Still Damp When My Husband Demanded A Name
Todd had been fixed six weeks when the stick in my hand came up PREGNANT.…
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Arlene tucked the piece with the frosting school bus into her housecoat pocket
My husband's mother tucked a square of cake from her own party into the pocket…
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My Mother Turned The Thermostat Down To 52 And Took The Formula Home
I came through the back door three days ahead of schedule with a sack of…
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My sister-in-law pushed me in the same red dress she wore to our wedding
My sister-in-law put both hands flat on my back at the top of my in-laws'…
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My Cousin Had An Audience At Every Family Dinner
I stopped outside room 218 with towels against my ONLY spare uniform. Two kids needed…
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My Daughter Kept Her School Picture Under The Glass On Her Desk
My daughter wouldn't remove a WOOL CAP in our kitchen. She'd spent years protecting that…
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The Paper Above the Pajamas
My wife delivered two boys with different complexions, and I stood beside her bed SPEECHLESS…