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She recognized the laugh. The sweet and carefree laugh that played through the wind. Echoes of a little girl who became so bitter with age. The past seemed to rush before her in a play of words and melodies. She…
And I’ll treat it exactly like the others: preserve the period voice and only correct actual problems. In total, she’d made it twenty-three years, six months and fifteen days. Still, hope eluded her. She emptied another bedpan into the dilapidated…
Sylvia locked the bathroom door, but didn’t know why she bothered. She plopped down on the closed commode and listened to the rush of two voices outside. “I didn’t know she’d come home,” her husband apologized. “Well, you better next…
The flame flickered inside the old rusting heater. Most of the device’s original beige enamel was being overtaken by the encroaching red corrosion. The small mobile home reeked with the sharp odor of kerosene. Yes, the fumes probably were harmful,…
Oh, why not write these things down? Why not, I say? For what is real and what is not? I am suspended over what my doctor calls the “dream-reality haze.” Isn’t that convenient? After all, what would anyone that’s crazy…
1. Traveling down a long, dark corridor, a candle is my only light. The tiny flame sends a ghostly glow out ahead of me. The damp darkness, almost foggy, sends a shiver down my spine as I wait for what…
