I left the trailer and walked down the slope of the front yard into the tall grass beside the road. The back yard was scarred with the tracks of mini-bikes and the trail that our feet made out to Trixie's doghouse, but here near the ditch under the three trees that sheltered our front windows from the road, the grass was full and wet in the shade ( Read more... )

Christmas 1975 ( Read more... )

Today, as I was waiting for Dev to finish some shopping at our local Whole Foods (whole paycheck) natural organic health food emporium ( Read more... )

Kansas ( Read more... )

She had come home in the middle of the afternoon from school and her stepfather was waiting for her in the kitchen with a Pabst in his hand. (Bubbles ( Read more... )

After he left, she stood on the aluminum strip that divided the kitchen linoleum from the carpet of the living room and stared at one of the copper tacks that held it in place. She felt small and useless in the new white cotton socks that her Mother had bought for the new school year. She shuffled across the low gold knap, her feet picking up ( Read more... )

Swamp oaks ( Read more... )

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