Middle Age

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Residence by Katharine Harvey

Some of my Mom’s belongings migrated to the new place and as years passed, I discovered what she left behind.

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Mom's Trump Card by Rick Whitaker

I asked my mom why Butch despised me--was it just because I was gay? No, Mom said, there’s more to it than that

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Floodwater by Deborah Nash Ott

Just before the big flood of 1972 in Rochester, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Agnus, my father moved out of our house for good.

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Letting Go by Joan Baranow

we walked through the gap in the chain-link fence and across the leafy graveyard with its live oak trees and silvered Spanish moss

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Walking the Dog by Tim Atkinson

I have named my pain and called it ‘dog’ —Friedrich Nietszche, The Gay Science

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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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