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Category: Childhood

A Slow Day

A Slow Day (bp coyle)

April 22, 2021 coylewriter Leave a comment

Wow, it’s been a very slow day. The slow days are the worst around here, which is strange when you…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family
Career Choice (story by Eliza Mimski)

Career Choice (story by Eliza Mimski)

January 19, 2021 coylewriter 1 Comment

In eighth grade, I wore tons of make-up to Catholic school. I was a rebel. Trying to hide my outbreaks,…

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Posted in: Childhood
Purple Hands (story by Aidan Coyle)

Purple Hands (story by Aidan Coyle)

January 11, 2021 coylewriter Leave a comment

When I was a small child my grandparents would take me blackberry picking. It was usually late August when the…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

The Mundane Egg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fable, Fiction
Dumplings (story by Vivian Leung )

Dumplings (story by Vivian Leung )

August 16, 2020 coylewriter Leave a comment

It was only 2:00 in the morning. Finding that she could not go back to sleep, she slowly got out…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction
Disappointment (story by Eliza Mimski)

Disappointment (story by Eliza Mimski)

July 4, 2020 coylewriter 1 Comment

I always admired her when I was growing up. No, that’s not quite true. I envied her. I wanted to…

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Posted in: Childhood
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Sticks and Stones (bp coyle)

July 1, 2020 coylewriter Leave a comment

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’ That was my mother’s mantra. It’s what…

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Posted in: Childhood
bp coyle, brian

Vampire #3 (bp coyle)

June 5, 2020 coylewriter Leave a comment

Dad was a big guy, mean looking. Dad was a mean guy. I didn’t know him well. It’s hard to…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Parenting
Stewart Lindh

The Wooden Leg (story by Stewart Lindh)

June 1, 2020 coylewriter Leave a comment

Mark only saw it by itself at night, when she would remove it and lean it against the wall before…

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Posted in: Childhood

The Great Fairy War (Story by Risa Peris)

April 23, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

One night Lucy, the Tooth Fairy, and Mary, the Tinkle Fairy, got into a fight as fairies tend to do.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction

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