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Original fiction, published daily in serialized form, except when stories need a little more development. On those days, non-fiction intrudes.
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Bad Driver
Here’s what happened first. After my miserable ninth grade in Catholic school, I attended a huge public school serving four suburbs along Chicago’s wealthy north shore. The school required Driverâ...
So Much Promise
More than twenty years ago, Jeanne’s husband drove their green hatchback into a concrete safety barrier flanking the exit ramp off Highway 287. It was late June and still daylight at eight o’clock...
Life and Death
My youngest sister was eight that Christmas. I was married and pregnant. Full of hope, I hadn’t mentioned the fact to anyone yet, and no one had guessed, at least not to my face. My second sister wa...
Oldest and Youngest
My mother gave birth to my youngest sister, when I, the oldest, was sixteen. My mother was thirty-six then, which she deemed shockingly old for new motherhood. It wasn’t, compared to many of other m...
Testimony
Euphoria, I claimed in earlier posts is a state of mind that carries an after-flash of its opposite. Despair’s bitterness opposes euphoria’s sweetness. Before adulthood, I experienced both feeling...