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A hotel lobby. Fancy, impeccably lit, (dim) concierge on the wing, lounging on lounges, cigarettes is ashtrays, everyone was smoking

In my neighborhood, birds have thankfully come back in full force this year. They stand on the preheating driveways, like small children happily watching fireworks, and puff out their colorful vests and nod their slick heads to the beat of a…

Then there was the time I splurged, hoping a higher-priced phone might keep me from slamming it against the wall.

While the shadows of lives that once were still hid away, others who survived tried to stand on their own two feet and walk the distance again and tell what happened and what it was all like.

She knew that she was bland and overweight and dull; that what was beautiful in her was locked away like a tiny maiden, far, far away in a tower, too difficult to find or reach. She must face her lot, grateful for her family and her work.

[Huh!]

Paul and Mary Jo lived in an apartment at the top of a long, dark flight of stairs that were so high, I remember as if it were yesterday thinking, the night she pushed him down the stairs, he would surely be dead by the time he hit the landing at the…

unsteady, they try to rise

Not for the short attention span

You'll last maybe 10 minutes this time of year

The summer I was eleven years old....

Across the vacant vanished . . .

Scene this morning ... Dawn flirting with the swallows.Blue petals in the air. Beautiful day ahead.Every season has its dawn. In autumn it shows its freckles.Flushed with pink love, it embraces the sky.When morning begins, it reveals its mauve petticoat.The cat felt a…

December scent rains coming down sodden leaves underfoot

Scuttling on his knees now, he crossed to the other side of the boat and dropped the fish into a bucket of water. He knew what he had to do next.

The winter sun was going down and she watched it out the window.Light like shards of glass,time had melted.It took hold.She was held down by brown leather straps and she couldremember the smell of incense and little hands and little eyesof an infant cold on the bed.She…