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Brimfield
The white GM box truck with ‘J Corduroy, Antiques – Collectibles’  on the side in scraped brown paint bounced us as the big tires rolled...
Robert Moore
Mar 2021 min read
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Song of the River
Which is the more difficult thing to do—love your immediate surroundings for the way they nurture you? Or hate them for all that they’ve...
Urmi Chakravorty
Mar 113 min read
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Just You and I
(content warning: this story includes references to domestic violence.) As a cradle Catholic, I always knew you needed your faith to do...
Angela Curnutt
Oct 15, 202422 min read
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Polyps
1 My knees and hands were bleeding and hurt like the dickens, but I was still holding onto the seashell I had picked up from the darkened...
Matias F. Travieso-Diaz
Oct 1, 202412 min read
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Killing Malice
My stepmother’s name was Alice, but I called her Malice because she haunted my childhood and was the evilest person I ever knew—and for...
John F. Miglio
Apr 30, 202415 min read
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Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
E.C. Traganas
Feb 29, 20249 min read
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Lipoma
1. Vin stood in front of the bathroom mirror studying the lump protruding from his left shoulder. Pinching it between his thumb and index...
Richard Lehan
Dec 15, 20239 min read
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Land of the Free
It was an ambush! John Ware and his South Carolina militia men had successfully defeated the well-armed redcoats at the bridge. But...
Luisa Kay Reyes
Nov 1, 20237 min read
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Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
Krin Van Tatenhove
Mar 30, 202319 min read
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Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
Rebecca M. Blackwell
Feb 13, 20236 min read
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Shell
Maddie was a widow who lived by the beach. Every morning and evening she walked along the shore remembering her husband David and their...
Shawn Casselberry
Jun 2, 20225 min read
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Coming to Life Among the Dying
My grandfather died rather suddenly when I was 9 years old. He was a fun grandfather who would do anything to make his grandchildren...
Suzanne Bea Slover Leahy
May 6, 20225 min read
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