Inspired by the myth of Proserpina, Melissa decides to visit Rome on impulse, but she is accompanied by her truculent cousin. Image generated with OpenAI Melissa is leaning against the pool’s edge, glancing out at the valley, about as alone as she’s been in the past two weeks of traveling with her stepmother’s family, when […]
I don’t remember my first steps. Home movie cameras, with their herky-jerky pictures, were rare, and seldom on hand at such moments. Instead, my earliest memories are me, running, skipping, twirling and jumping—actions that came as naturally as breathing—all gifts I thought would last forever. Silly old me. A prolific writer, Carol Reeves is loving […]
And he lived happily ’til the end of his days, enjoying life’s simple pleasures, never knowing that in granting his wish for happiness, the genie did not give him his heart’s desire but rather erased it, so the man would never suffer a day in the yearning for his dream. Whitney is still working on […]
Curmudgeonly Quentin tries to sabotage his young neighbor Lucy’s backyard concerts. Image generated with OpenAI Quentin pushed open the back door to the garden and threw out his arms to welcome the year’s sunniest day. For an April day in Sussex, the sun shone proud, though it would not have inspired any Mauritians to leap […]
I bought a packet of wildflower seeds and sprinkled them in the back corner of my lawn. In mid-May it wasn’t flowers that bloomed, but an entire miniature city filled with tiny people. They live a full life there. From time to time I take them water and other supplies. Rachel Turney is an educator […]
She picks up the pieces as usual. Wraps and mails the packages, amazed there’re so many names on his list. Readies the house for its new owners, catches the plane—and she can finally relax, imagining surprised faces when they open their gifts. The girlfriend who gets his head screams. Deborah writes at an old desk […]
I hit my son today–slashed my wedding band across his little blond head. His mother took him to her mother’s. I watched them drive off, windshield wipers dragging rain. When I went to say goodbye, he flinched–like I’d done it twice. The bruise isn’t even visible. Not yet. Nathan Jones is a writer from Tennessee […]
Sometimes, turning a key, folding laundry,coach will feel it, like yesterday. First inning, his young pitcher struggled.So, he pulled him, like the Red Soxdo on TV. Red-faced, the boy stormed off slamming his glove to the ground.His father, sitting in the stands, felt it too. Matthew house-sits near a lake in Maine. Sometimes, the loons, […]
The consultant had us draw a timeline leading up to the present. People stood and shared project milestones, corporate announcements, promotions. I only saw doctors’ appointments, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, rinse, repeat. Those tick marks charted her illness and death. And he wondered why I didn’t go up to the front. Norma Gardner retired from the […]
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