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The Cool Night Breeze
She lived for the cool night breeze, like a cloud in the sky, free and easy, always wandering. I often wondered if she’d just wandered...
Richard M. Ankers
5 days ago6 min read
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Miss Lilly
Working as a Hospice Chaplain, there's never a dull moment. This is true for every patient who comes to our service. You pray, you say,...
John Wenderlein
Jul 87 min read
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Carrier the Fisherman
Dedicated to Louis Clinton Carrier, my grandfather         I remember running through the forest of endless trees, skylight breaking...
Victor Benavides
Jul 19 min read
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Shift
You forced my hand. When you modernized, flying all around the world in your airplanes, I could have mutated, evolved. I could have...
John Leahy
Jun 226 min read
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Kanazawa in the Rain
The tracks parallel the Japan Sea coast. On one side, a fishing boat’s lights on dark water, on the other, towns too small for a stop,...
Wally Wood
Jun 1514 min read
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Musical Underdog
Can music save a child from school bullies? In "Musical Underdog," Leah Mueller writes how an unwanted instrument helped two unpopular kids find their way.
Leah Mueller
Jun 89 min read
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The Contract
Lystra left the river behind her, walking with her basket of clean clothes on her head, wishing for the hundredth time that she could...
Soter Lucio
Jun 110 min read
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The Rolling Hills
Do I or do I not cross? The question echoes in my mind as I watch the rolling hills outside my window. Clumps of green that rise and...
Michelle Koubek
May 224 min read
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All In
I was thirteen years old that July in 1952 that they let Uncle Buddy out of the pen long enough to come home for Mammaw’s funeral, or so...
John Mitchell Johnson
May 1516 min read
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Speaking Symbols With Gorgons
In March of 2024 my husband and I took a trip of a lifetime – a 14-day tour of Greece. We made our reservations early and gleefully...
Laura Lewis-Barr
May 712 min read
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The Overdue Library Book
One night when I was about 10, I dreamt I was in a library. A lady walked up. She looked familiar. She didn’t say anything but when...
David Clear
May 18 min read
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The Quiet Dance of Words
It was a quiet afternoon in Malang, the kind that seemed to stretch forever, like time was in no rush. The sun dipped just below the...
Fendy S. Tulodo
Apr 227 min read
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Farther Along Camino de Santiago
Four weeks in, as a petition for absolution, I hiked, occasionally encountering other pilgrims as we weaved France’s verdant, wooded,...
Joe Giordano
Apr 155 min read
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Memory Gaps
It is unclear whether memory gaps or lapses are primarily genetic. According to web sources, deteriorating memory conditions such as...
Jun A. Alindogan
Apr 84 min read
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A Carton of Eggs
I didn’t know at the time how I came unstuck. It happened on a day like any other day. I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. I do this...
Mike Sherer
Apr 116 min read
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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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Writing and the Forest
The forest seems intent on healing me. Take today, for instance. I was walking on the trail, taking notes on Shakespeare. My latest...
Julie Mariouw
Mar 106 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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Pentimento: Paint on a Canvas
............................................................................................................ The Second Layer “You’re in...
John RC Potter
Feb 248 min read
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Dog Park Dharma
After I rescued Louis, friends said I’d find a new social life at the dog park. My puppy and I would be welcomed into a community of dog...
Judith Frankel
Feb 144 min read
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