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Weekly Contest #345
It’s not hard, you know, fitting your whole life into one suitcase. I’m not talking about a full sized checked luggage sized suitcase. I mean those little carryons. It doesn’t take much when you don’t have much to begin with. My life changed in an instant. “You have 5 minutes, grab only what you need and leave the rest.” Perhaps I should back up? You see, my childhood and teen years were- how should I say this? Tumultuous. It seems the polite way to describe it. In those days I lived out of a black plastic garbage bag. Everything I owned wa...
Weekly Contest #342
He never said it, but I knew. It was what he did. It was who he was. Everything he did screamed it. Yet, he never said it. Not to me. Not to mom. That’s why she left him. Left us. After she left, his grief was profound. Words were spare. I spoke enough for the both of us. He threw himself into being there for me. The way she accused him of never being there for her . She couldn’t handle the quiet. He was there, she just couldn’t see it. The way he patiently taught me how to ride a bike. I fell. A lot. He picked me back up, kissed my booboos...
Weekly Contest #340
My mother thinks that I think I’m a speech-challenged human who happens to live life on all fours. I am not speech-challenged, I assure you, I speak just fine.I regret to inform you that it is she who is a bark-challenged dog, albeit a nearly hairless one, who can’t manage to walk on all fours. Honestly, sometimes it’s quite embarrassing. As I pass other dogs guiding their peculiar dogs along, we give each other a knowing look of understanding, nodding gently as we pass.I guide her for long walks through wooded paths and fields, she brushes ...
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