July 2018

His Name Was Klaus

His Name Was Klaus By Tom Eck   His name was Klaus—Klaus Wohland. It was an unusual name in our little southern California Catholic grammar school, filled with O’ Brien’s, Shaughnessy’s and O Callaghan’s, with a sprinkling of Moreno’s and Garcia’s. Klaus came to our seventh-grade class from Germany. He was a full head taller

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First Love

First Love By Mikel Miller   He was getting ready to sell the big old house after his wife’s death, and cleaning out the walk-in closet. The musty smell of boxes filled the room as he opened a grocery sack of school yearbooks and thumbed through one to his class page. The face of his

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Unforgivable

Unforgivable By Janice Wilberg   The kids in the orphanage in Nicaragua where we adopted three children didn’t cry. They’d already done their crying someplace else. They might have looked concerned but they didn’t cry when passed from one person to the next like a bowl of mashed potatoes being passed at Thanksgiving dinner. In

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