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Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again (bp coyle)

March 3, 2020 coylewriter Leave a comment

Have you ever had one of those life flashing before your eyes moments? No? Well, I have and I can…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction

Perfect (Story by Risa Peris)

January 28, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

I was born on the ice. I’m not lying. My mother, a former ice skater, went on the rink the…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction

The Presidential Couple (Story by Risa Peris)

January 14, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

She had ran unopposed for two years as student president. Two whole years. She got soda machines back in the…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fiction, Political

Red (Story by Risa Peris)

January 10, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know the way to grandma’s house. Her mother told her to cross a field and…

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Posted in: Childhood, Fairy Tale, Family, Fiction
bp coyle, brian

Trimming the Tree (bp coyle)

November 30, 2019 coylewriter Leave a comment

‘Trimming the tree’ my Grandmother called it. Do people use that expression any more? Seems like a long time since…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family
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Saturday Morning T.V. (bp coyle)

November 28, 2019 coylewriter Leave a comment

It’s not like I was actually banned from watching kids’ tv on a Saturday morning. The trick was to get…

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Posted in: Childhood

Die Eternity (Story by Risa Peris)

November 18, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing; Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee:…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction
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Do You Believe in Fairies? (bp coyle)

November 10, 2019 coylewriter Leave a comment

‘Hey sweetie. How was your day with Grangran?’ ‘We had fun! I like staying with her.’ ‘She’s always been good…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

The List (Story by Risa Peris)

November 9, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

“Then were not summer’s distillation left, a liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass” -Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5 Based on Shakespeare’s…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction

In Honor of the Day of the Dead (Story by Risa Peris)

November 1, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

  Dita and the House of Faces Dita lives in an old and quite dusty Victorian mansion, stuffed precariously on…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

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