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Sandra Brooks

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Southern Garbage Revisited

Weekly Contest #46

“It was 1978 and after my first divorce all I missed was someone to take out the garbage. After my second divorce all I missed was someone to take out the garbage and sex. But it was 1990 and times had changed.” These are the opening lines of my memoir I started 30 years ago. I discovered the typed pages as I was recently going through one of those mystery boxes labeled “miscellaneous” that we stick on a top closet shelf out of sight and out of mind each time we move to a new address. For me there had been a total of five moves within three...

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Silent Tears

Weekly Contest #45

What would have happened if I had acted that night instead of sitting frozen in the backseat of that Coupe de Ville while tears streamed silently down my face in the darkness? Would anything be different…would I, would they? That night was over 50 years ago and as I watch the horror of the racism in our country today, I realize the answer is no. And yet this event has haunted me since it happened one sultry, summer evening riding down a country road so long ago in the Mississippi Delta. It was the summer of 1966 and I had just finished my f...

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Life Through Smiling Eyes

Weekly Contest #34

Gabby, the Standard Poodle: Hey, Sam, whatcha doin’? Got great news! Sam, the Golden Retriever: Yeah, I’ve got some stuff to tell you about…don’t think it’s good though. Weird things going on over here at my house. Really? Here too, but it’s weird in a good way. Both of the big humans and the two little ones have been home for a super long time…and I mean they NEVER leave me. We are going for lots of extra walks. Wow! That’s sort of what I wanted to tell you. My sweetest human and both little humans are home 24/7 too, but my favorite big...

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