Middle Age

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One Word by Keith McGreggor

Michele had grown increasingly disruptive and violent throughout August. Whatever truce we’d achieved with her medication was clearly over.

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Christmas, Elsewhere by Heather Gatley

It was 1963. A blizzard blew across the grass outside the married quarters where we lived in RAF St Athan.

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Aunt Jean by Tracy Kauffman Wood

Aunt Jean would read popular psychology books on the #50 trolley as it bounced down Fourth Street in fits and starts toward Passyunk Avenue.

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Adventures in the B Movie Trade by Brian Trenchard-Smith

The source of the Actor’s anxiety arrives on the set, his partner in the scene, a male with dangling testicles each the size of grapefruit.

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The Date & The Elephant by Penny Pepper

I look at this clean-shaven man with dark eyes and a sharp jaw. He’s Australian and talks about my dating profile.

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Biden in the Elevator, Trump in the Bar

Biden immediately dropped his briefcase and contorted himself into a wrestler’s crouch, hands in front ready to strike.

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Flat Caps and Cowgirl Hats by Stevyn Colgan

I’m fifty-nine years old. That’s eight years older than my Dad ever got to be. When I look at photographs of him, all I see is an older man.

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Luxor Boxing Girls by KH Mezek

About a year ago, I had the pleasure of forming the first ever girls boxing club in Luxor. It was somewhat revolutionary, no exaggeration.

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Disaster Parenting by Robert Kerbeck

I wonder how my teenage son, Davis, will remember me after I’m gone. Perhaps it’s a thought in the minds of many parents in these COVID-19 d

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Father by Liane U’Prichard

Tonight I rewatch a video my son posted some time ago, of him teaching his five year old to weave on a pretty complicated loom. The patient

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Walking to Oseira by James Bloom

I walked the main Camino de Santiago, known as the Camino Frances, in portions lasting around a week each, as my time and energy permitted

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Island Fever by Lawrence Morgan

Grenada, post-invasion, 1984. Twelve degrees latitude. Thirty degrees centigrade and humid.

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I am Chapter Twelve by Pete Langman

‘I’m writing a book,’ she said. Not a great surprise considering that her online dating profile stated clearly that she was a writer.

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Ravelling by Lulu Allison

My grandfather died of a broken heart six weeks after my grandmother. He had not expected to live without her

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If You Relax, You Will Float To The Surface by Peter J. Stavros

I was flailing in the frigid currents of the San Francisco Bay, fighting, kicking, slapping at the water to stay afloat.

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86'ed by Jennifer Blowdryer, an excerpt

“86’ed” was originally a New York expression that started at Chumleys, a speakeasy on 86 Bedford Street that kept a strict code of conduct.

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Whitehaven Revisited by James Bloom

My wife’s whole family comes from Whitehaven, a small, sleepy port city on the northernmost reach of the west coast of England.

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Deconstructing Constructors by Auriel Roe

With the author coming to the end of her third and, without a doubt, final renovation project, she reflects upon those men, the constructors

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I Took My Son to Paris by Rick Whitaker

Having decided to take my adopted son to Paris for a week-long vacation, I went to Airbnb.com and quickly hit upon what seemed a charming

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Our Mother by Mark Scott

Not long after our brother Craig died, my aunt and I were standing in the kitchen, drinking champagne.

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