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Submitted to Contest #249
It was move-in day, freshman year of college, 1994. My room was the first door on the left, in a long, dark hallway with spotty fluorescent lighting and dingy brown carpet, threadbare in patches where coeds had tread since the early 70s. My roommate was a wisp of a human, a lean cross country runner who had taken up residence the week prior, due to early arrival for all fall athletes. My parents and I hauled in a foot locker, duffle bags, pillows, lamps, and a microwave just large enough for heating up ramen. They gawked at the boys entering...
Submitted to Contest #175
On the Road AgainBy Kathryn Kerr FitzsimmonsBill had explored, executed and exhausted more than one post-retirement endeavor by the time he decided to drive for Guber. After thirty five years of great success in the corporate world, he felt under a microscope every day he spent in his own home. His career had taken him all over the globe. He was a provider, and an excellent one at that. He gave his only child a life he could never have imagined as a boy. His daughter had circumnavigated the globe five times by the age of sixteen. She was his...
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The Leaf Blower By Kathryn Kerr Fitzsimmons “Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.” - Toni Morrison Carol is an elegant 79 year old woman who has had both hips, both knees and one ankle replaced. She suffers from bursitis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia. While doing her best to age with dignity, there are few things that bring her greater joy than blowing leaves, despite her lack of balance, strength or agility. For nearly thirty years, she has lived in the Low Country of South Carolina, where everything eve...
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