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Submitted to Contest #289
CRAZY GRANDMA I learned when I was young that when I was old I would be weird. Weird like Grandma… She had hair that “came down to her fanny” as she said. This was something I longed for, but never understood why she twisted it around and around, then pinned it into a bun. She left black, u-shaped hairpins in a cup by the sink in the bathroom she shared with my younger brother and me. But she left her dentures in a glass by the sink in the kitchen. I hated the look of them, the gray pink of the gums holding spooky rows of false teeth. I had ...
Submitted to Contest #271
I can still picture him clearly, the middle aged, dark hired man, average except for big black glasses. Not sunglasses. I could see, or maybe I imagined that I could see, his dark eyes. And I did see him. Everywhere. Me, age 11 or 12… I was amazed at such coincidences! He cruised the local strip of stores near my house at the same times that my friend Sue and I did. He shopped at the pharmacy a block away at the same times that we killed some of our long days pretending to look at greeting cards. He walked on the same streets that we r...
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