Heavy Sleeper
“I’ve had to talk to you about this too many times, David,” she said. “I’m sorry, but you’re fired.” Mrs.…
Hit
This time he wrote the song about the break-up of his first marriage. The funny thing is, that was the…
Front
It read, “The dead know nothing the living won’t find out sooner or later.”And you sure don’t envy them, she…
Disillusion
After all, once you’ve discovered something that’s important enough,learned all about a subject that eventually shapes your entire world,found a…
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Ride
My thumb, I look at it, pointed on in the direction I’m headed,that famous destination of a’ways down the road…
Normal
If you lived an eternity in each moment, he wondered,why wouldn’t that mean you’d only ever live for a single…
Hope
Memorization came easily for her, and at her first awarenessof this, she assumed everyone had been born equally able.As she…
Pursuit
The only way to get in there, she believed without question, was throughperforming good deeds, the living by and through…
Lifesaver
He’d joined on the Daegu because his uncle captained that long-line vessel.It was grueling work, worse his stomach betrayed him…
Circus
As a child he’d attended the circus once, and once only.His parents, he imagined, must have seen it as a…
Hiatus
A break for her came, the grading of papers and the teaching done.The quiet pulse of what’s to do next,…
Tradition
His body was given for me, he thought, kept hearing it overand over while he watched the walk along the…
Old
She remembered that day, that one so long agoit seemed it was a dream, and that fond embraceso hard it…
Passed
Someday, the old man thought, when I’m very old, someday whenthe migrating Red Teals soar southward over good old Milwaukeeheading…
Gift
Now he saw their relationship in the way stakeholder analysis works,wished he’d thought more about this deal when they first…
Sweet
I am ice cream fool in love with you,the whole red and white striped jacket deal,white slacks creased, and my…
Resolution
They were both art majors, both painters, a heavenly Art Department matchwho bought a home on ‘Ālewa Heights, and sectioned…
