Posts Tagged ‘extraordinary’
Extraordinary Dialogue: What Can One Say?
Friends, I must be honest with you; the world is really pressing down on me right now. Cathy is going through another period of debilitating fatigue, and I’m doing my best to care for her while also attending to everything that needs attention around the house—things like cooking and cleaning and all those other adult…
Read MoreA Boy Named Hog Sausage
Last Thursday, much to my and Cathy’s regret, our washing machine gave up the ghost. While we await the delivery of a new one, we’ll have to make a trip to a coin-operated laundry. It’s been a while since I’ve been in one of those, but for many years I accompanied my mother on Saturdays…
Read MoreAnd Then It Happened: A Story Prompt
You know how it goes. You’re going through an ordinary day—maybe it’s a Sunday, and you’re just taking it easy—and then just like that something happens to change everything. Maybe a visitor arrives, or a phone call comes, or someone says something they’ve been repressing, or they do something they never thought they’d do. The…
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