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Uncle Ron’s Funeral
I woke up to the sight of my wife’s bare back, The constellation of freckles that spanned both shoulder blades under a wavy nebula of ...
The Luckiest Bastard Alive
Screw Marvin Jenkins. The luckiest bastard in the world. Let me start at the beginning. I was born and raised in Flagstaff, second-generation blue blood ...
The Starry Crown
I left the university campus behind to do fieldwork in the Deep South. I was studying folk songs from southern states that had neither a ...
Nicky’s Ninth Door
Walter was cool. Walter was tough. Walter was 13 years old. As the only teen on his block all the other kids that lived on ...
An Old Man’s Last Secret
My grandfather was 95 years old and not long for this world. There was nothing but a mess of tubes and wires to tether him ...
The Jacob Motel
Asphalt tires glided us along the black sea of the Interstate. My vision had become blurry, tired from the constant repetition of the white line, ...
The People in the Old Yellow Car
My mother and I live in a relatively small Midwest town of approximately 10,000 people. In a town this small, it’s common to run into ...
There’s a Dead Girl in My Mirror
Saturday This sounds absolutely idiotic. I know you’ve all heard this kind of thing before – someone thinks her house is haunted, everyone else assures ...
The Cancer in the Walls
Growing up with asthma was always a little challenging, but having a dad that smoked two packs a day made it even harder. Mom would ...
Freedom From Want
The lavish banquet that had been so expertly laid out on the long, elegant refractory table before me could only be described as perfect. Truly, ...
