“Walnut” By Kathy Pricekatcandu@ymail.com Have you ever had a pet hamster? They’re cute, furry little things but they ARE nocturnal so one of the most important decisions when you bring one into your home is to decide where to put the cage. When you’ve lived in a house for awhile, you become attuned to […]
Happy Birthday By Steve Griffin The last time I sang “Happy Birthday” was at Peggy Swanson’s 14th birthday party. After that disastrous event, I swore off celebrating birthdays, my own or anyone else’s. When we graduated from high school four years later, Peggy was voted the best looking girl in our class. She probably
The Ring By Jeremy Monroe On Karen’s dresser rests a small silver bowl, a trophy won by her grandmother for first place in a golf tournament at a north shore Chicago country club back in 1934. It is engraved with her grandmother’s name, the club’s name, and “First Place – Fall Tournament – 1934.”
FROM THE MIDWEST TO MEXICO: The Unlikely Journey of an Undaunted Mom By Daria Hiltondaria_hilton@hotmail.com Sipping cold Dos Equis cervezas in the shade of the threadbare umbrella that rests a tad cockeyed in the center hole of the glass patio table, no one would suspect that my neighbor Marianne began her almost thirty-year relationship
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Vexations and Conundrums By Katina Pontikes Tales From the Funeral Parlor Death! Oh, the finality of it. Or so one thinks, while they are wallowing in the numbness of grief and tears. However, death brings with it the responsibility of discarding the human vessel in which our souls reside. Burial in a plot, storage
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Prom Night By Gail Nott Recently, I was accused by one of our ex-pat matriarchs of “throwing my breasts on the shoulders of a married man to sexually entice him.” I was very flattered by this false accusation; I had never considered it possible to throw my chest anywhere. But this incident triggered memories
