New Year’s Day, late morning, my daughter fills a water bottle from kitchen sink. Workout clothes, her hair in a ponytail, “I’m going to get a workout in,” she tells me. “I’m doing Seventy-Five Hard,” she shares on. “Have you ever heard of it?” “I believe I have.” “It’s seventy-five days when […]
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Short Story
BROKEN IN HOPE
New year came. Sun rose earlier than in day before, its break in dawn more northward in sign and movement in sky; and in the morning light and warmth of particular, peculiar winter, they labored together breaking ground in preparing for the spring. In the open of lawn beside low, small painted shed […]
Short Story
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
“…I had yet to see myself become part of a story. I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments […]