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By William Sharon “Jacob, where are you?” Mama caught me sneaking out again. Or rather, she found my bed empty and my pajamas strewn on the floor. I fled too far away to be caught. My breath shook, my pulse raced, my feet pounded the grassy ground as I ran….
By Richard L. Shelby I watch my clothes go around in the dryer. A pair of tennis shoes goes “ker-thlunk, ker-thlunk.” Why do I wash the kids’ tennis shoes? They’ll be dirty by Monday. But I’ll make them white like new, if only for a day. The blonde next to…
By Alexander Zera I’m so happy for you! And your wife too, of course,on your new flame. Your beautiful blue-blanketed beady-eyed babe with his marbly little toes and pink face peeking out into the cold. He’s so small. When you told mehe was 10 months old I could hardly believe it. How sudden. I was holding…
By Christopher Clauss In New England they would have me do this the other way around:ice first, then tea, then honey.The physics of solubility are not lost on the people of the northeast.They revel in challenge, pride themselves on work clearly unfinished.It is evidence that they are “working on it,”the…