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Hammer Time

Maggie hated shopping with her four kids but she especially hated going down three specific aisles: snacks, cookies and cereal. Inevitably, fights broke out over who picked what last time and who...

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Sparkless

It was the second day of their first weekend away as a couple and he sat staring at the damp fire wood not sure exactly what to do; the night before he’d used and entire of the fire starters from...

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Roger’s A-1 Automotive

Mercifully my car was not on Roger’s lift. He swore loudly tossing an angry wrench at his pristine metal toolbox. He paused, reconsidering this action then lifted and returned the 1 1/8 to its rightful...

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Me and Emily at the Stardust, 1958

He insisted they move his room so the moonrise and the evening sky would be more visible, pointing out that Johnson across the hall made it easier for them to comply with his request since Johnson died...

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Cord Wood

He stumbled in from the wood pile dropping logs loudly, and fed the fire before insinuating himself under his wife’s blanket. Wood warms you three times – he had read so – when you split it, when you...

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Crab Apple Crisis

She thought it ridiculous their son had been stuck for hours in that tree. “Help him now,” she told her husband. Through the slider he saw the boy caught in high crooked branches, “He”ll figure it...

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Lion Fish Vacuum

Robert follows the Lion Fish deeper into the reef, spear ready.  An invasive species in the Keys, these are legal prey. Within reach something yanks from behind, tugging; the mask falls from his face....

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Pies in the Sky

Rolling out the dough across the floured countertop becomes her silent lament. Time was the kitchen would filled with bustling bodies. Twice yearly they baked pies — fall apple; summer blueberry. Fruit...

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Lesson

My grandfather’s basement smells of clean, damp concrete despite it being poured in 1963. Fishing through some containers on the neatly organized upper shelves of his workbench, he pulls a leather...

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The Three Walters

Their bat-removal plan was solid. Their bat removal plan was solid. Big Walter, Little Walter and Old Walter would rush the door behind Memere’s thick and ancient quilt. Big Walter would go left with...

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