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Trudy wrote a new post 1 week ago
The Pleasure of Ruins by Trudy Hale
Not too long ago, I was walking my black lab down Norwood Road when an acquaintance stopped his truck to chat. He said he was concerned about my […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Allison Moves In by Margie Shepherd
Allison did not come to the decision to move in with Gregory lightly. She loved her little apartment, absolutely loved it. It was a source […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 month, 1 week ago
Forehand Drive by Amy Foster Myer
“How much further down you think it is?” He turned to look at me in the backseat as he drove. Through the front windshield, dark streets I did […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 1 month, 1 week ago
I Can't Believe It. I Forgot to Read Jane Austen! by E. H. Jacobs
I can’t help thinking about what I haven’t read. Every year, I try to read at least one piece of classic literature that I had overlooked, never got […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 month, 2 weeks ago
An Audio Book Report And Relevant Field Trip by Erika Raskin
I listened (why hold a hefty book aloft when you don’t have to?) to Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You and shared the following […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Bonnie's Spell by Tonja Matney Reynolds
Bonnie usually loved the drive to Aunt Edda’s house. She’d peer out the backseat window as her mother drove along the section of highway ove […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 months, 2 weeks ago
White by Holly Day
Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to have a baby. Or rather, this woman, named Jane, didn’t particularly care whether she had a baby at t […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Lowcountry Tragedy by Erika Raskin
First off, I’m just going to put right out there that I have been known to watch live courtroom TV like it’s a job, attending to whatever case is […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 3 months ago
Stay In Your Own Lane by Erika Raskin
The back of my old CRV is adorned with a nearly forty year-old license plate (you can still read it if you squint in a certain light) and three […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 3 months, 1 week ago
A Small Marvel by Trudy Hale
After an eighteen-hour flight with a connection in Dubai, my daughter, Tempe, and I landed in Delhi. Throughout the trip I posted photographs on […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Put Some Meat On Their Bones by Erika Raskin
I once wrote a piece for Publisher’s Weekly about how even people who are terminally disorganized can craft novels. I offered a five-step […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 4 months ago
wish by Harry James
The morning sun dappled the kitchen wall with an outline of wind-fumbled leaves loosely hanging on trees, cooking in the early morning heat. On […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 4 months, 2 weeks ago
My Wife Is In Love by E. H. Jacobs
Five years ago, my wife fell in love. I’m not talking about me (we have been married thirty-nine years, so I hope the falling in love thing happened m […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months ago
Duck Blind by Regina Guarino
Across the narrow alley way between row houses, where trash cans totter and feral cats loiter, a window opens onto the neighbors’ kitchen. For o […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Immersed by Caroline Kahlenberg
People will say it was suicide, but you mustn’t believe them. They’ll say I looked normal at first, a tall woman with long black hair […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 months ago
I had heard when you get older you revert to a lot of your tastes and activities when young, but I disregarded it, until I started buying old Joni Mitchell and Buffalo Springfield albums, and listening to the […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months ago
It’s not hard to sneak into the Manhattan Exclusion zone if you know what you’re doing. The Coast Guard mostly looks for the guys who don’t know what they’re doing—the ones who rush past Spuyten Du […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months ago
I’ve held season tickets on the fifty-yard line of health care for a long time, watching in alternating awe and horror at how medical interventions are provided. In the gratitude/wonder department, […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Rose sat on the front porch, her custom at that dwindling time of day, watching. She tucked a strand of gray-white hair behind an ear. Her rocker squeaked against the floorboards. Light had fallen near […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 months ago
‘The silence gathered and struck me. It bashed me broadside from nowhere, as if I’d been hit by a plank. It dropped from the heavens above me like yard goods; ten acres of fallen, invisible sky choked the fie […]
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