I found the photo on the floor of her room. It is the last place she lived. She is smiling in the picture but her eyes say something else, something like, I hate having my picture taken. Her lips are closed to hide her missing teeth. I slide the picture into my back pocket. We […]
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I click. Burger King is looking for Managers to run their restaurants. I think it’s kind of cool that they call themselves a restaurant. I guess it’s like calling me a Marketing Consultant while I’m unemployed. I click. My friends at Career Builder are hard at work trying to find me a job. They reassure
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“Why do you have all these sex channels on your TV?” My mother bellowed from the living room as I stumbled out of bed. “What sex channels?” I responded with a mix of confusion and worry. “Every channel I turn to is sex. You let your kids watch this kind of television?” This is the
We Danced. The bride spotted me, dancing hand in hand in a large circle around her. The circle was so large that we were more walking then dancing. Still, the music played and the pull of the crowd, of the women, carried me around the dance floor. The bride broke through the crowd of woman
Our house was a mess. It had been a mess for some time but was deteriorating to a deeper level of mess, disgusting mess. In fact, we were probably living at the level of disgusting mess for some time when it occurred to us that we needed help. With the pending birth of our new
The bride was a stranger to me. I read the wedding invitation, well the parts that were in English at least. The groom, his parents and grandparents also strangers to me were named in the invitation. The small response card slipped out of the envelope and landed on the floor. I scooped it up in
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As I awoke from my deep sleep the end of our group therapy session, the group leader screamed in my ear. “Tammy is you ok?” Before I had a chance to respond, she lifted me by the elbow and escorted me back to my room. “Is there a nurse? We need a nurse.” I heard
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When I agreed to have Thanksgiving dinner this year, I did so with much reluctance. I had already hosted my share of Thanksgivings and had long since tired of the great turkey challenge. The last time I endeavored to host the great thanksgiving gorge, I was still young and loved the novelty of cooking for
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It was June when I got the offer. I wasn’t even looking for a job but when the opportunity came, it sounded too good to pass up. I would be making two dollars less an hour and the work would be considerably more challenging then my current job. No more summers off, no more long
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“I think I want a dog” I said as we took a walk down our street. “Everyone has a dog, look they have a dog,” I pointed to our neighbor’s yard. “Don’t you like those dogs are over there” I said pointing to a group of small dogs yelping. “Who’s going to walk the dog?”