Category: Selections
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Former Student, Shawn…Cool Kid
Shawn will always be one of my kids, even though he’s been a grown-assed man for at least thirty years now. I remember certain students for random reasons. Shawn was a twin, a brilliant one. Blonde, nice looking, a sweeter young man with manners you’d never meet. He was a…
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Multiples
I don’t know what kind of magic is in a twin, but I know there’s more power in it than science can explain.
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Big Tears…
He was matter of fact, but I was shaking in my boots. I didn’t see this day coming so soon.
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Lincoln’s Tophat: One Story
Late at night, when Abe took off his hat, he crumbled like a cookie in a coffee cup of doubt.
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My Luxurious Mistake: For Bruce and Gail
My trip ended too quickly, but before it did, I made a crucial but wonderful mistake.
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Fire
I learned a long time ago to hide the things you want most, for those will be taken from you first.
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Defensive Secrets
I could handle. I could buy what they needed, but not the cool stuff. Kids don’t miss what they don’t know.”
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“It was twenty years ago today…”
Sometimes a shouting match ended with a loud barking. Dodger didn’t allow the boys to argue.
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Twin Angels
We were just about the most normal and boring single parent family in the world.
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Traffic Stop Fundraiser
Everything in that car made me look guilty of something. I saw the cop look inside.
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End of Spring Break
I have to go back to work today. I’ve enjoyed being off all week and posting daily. I got to participate in my morning writing group for the last ten days, it was wonderful to be able to write in community. For almost two years, we’ve been writing together, it’s…
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Rule Followers
I’ve heard that if a bird gets in the house it’s an omen that someone will die.
Devonne Brown 