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Claribel By Deborah Nash Ott

Claribel Nash neé Wiese had been a school-teacher, too. For a time in a one-room schoolhouse near Cumberland, Indiana

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Extra-Special Bean Soup by Colleen Halupa

Summers in Schuylkill County, PA were halcyon days in regards to food.

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Daisy’s House in the Arms of Merlin by Heather Gatley

On a map it resembles the arms and hat of Merlin. It is a place where three rivers pour their hearts into the Irish sea

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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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Inflated Xmas by Liane U'Prichard

It's hard to be convincing about Christmas decorating in Florida even if you're a native.

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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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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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The Posthumous Poems of Leighton Bloom by Auriel Roe

he'd predicted that, one day, a computer would be so compact it would take up considerably less space than the average garage.

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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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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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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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45th at the 21 by James Bloom

Look! Dick and Jane are old. Dick's body is failing. Jane's mind is fading. See their middle aged son take them out to dinner. See him run!

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