2024 Writing
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My father built the bench when my husband and I bought our first house. He had some oak left from a project, and put the bench together quickly. Too quickly, […]
A long path opens before me, a dark and twisted path with no end. This was my decision. This was my choice. I said what I said. It’s better if […]
You can’t witness pure, unadulterated, innocent joy without some of the sparkle lightening your own load. It had been a long winter of non-stop nausea, but it wasn’t until the […]
by Elizabeth Williams I sit, staring at my computer screen. Upstairs, my 10-year-old daughter shrieks, “I hate you!” Her brother rumbles a reply. He’s 13, and his newly deep voice […]
Of all the gifts in my life, I think the greatest one has been the gift of reading. I didn’t acquire the gift early or easily. My mother and my […]
Outside, the drifting snow accumulates on pine trees reaching toward a goose-grey sky. I watch a solitary Blue Jay fly where fading light at dusk illuminates the tracks a deer […]
Broken, blackened branches,sculpted by fire –Nova Scotian bonsai. by Lynn Reicker
Whenever I seemy stonesa three,I pause—to know,to sigh, to be.In all I have done,or not, or failed—in allof this,my three prevailed.My three who workedtheir way to me,to crack the calm,the […]
They’re terrible birds,says my granddad, an old farmer.Eating the crops, making a mess.We always used to shoot themwhen I was a boy. I watch for them,to see them glide and […]
They took my friend Joy away today, zipped up in a red body bag. I’ll not forget that last unglamorous moment we shared. Instead, I’ll remember seeing her last month […]
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