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Author: Brian Coyle

The Holidays (Story by Risa Peris)

November 29, 2019 Brian Coyle

The holidays! I love you. I get to unearth the boxes from the garage. It’s Friday. Thanksgiving is over. I…

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Posted in: Fiction, Holiday

Thanksgiving Ghost (Story by Risa Peris)

November 27, 2019 Brian Coyle

  “We need to talk.” Two years later and the words still echo across the canyons of my soul. We…

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Posted in: Fiction, Friendship, Holiday

One Moment (Story by Risa Peris)

November 25, 2019 Brian Coyle

Music composed and performed by Risa Peris (though love is a song played with a smile) I was busking in…

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Posted in: Fiction, Travel

The Widow (Story by Risa Peris)

November 22, 2019 Brian Coyle

For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant if thou wilt, thou…

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Posted in: Fiction

Dawg (Story by Risa Peris)

November 20, 2019 Brian Coyle

Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Ah, if thou issueless…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction

Die Eternity (Story by Risa Peris)

November 18, 2019 Brian Coyle

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

Son (Story by Risa Peris)

November 13, 2019 Brian Coyle

“So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon: Unlook’d, on diest unless thou get a son.” -Shakespeare Sonnet 7   Story…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction

Ten (Story by Risa Peris)

November 11, 2019 Brian Coyle

“Make some sweet vial; treasure thou some place…That’s for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction

The List (Story by Risa Peris)

November 9, 2019 Brian Coyle

“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

Squandered (Story by Risa Peris)

November 7, 2019 Brian Coyle

Composed and performed by Risa Peris “For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self…

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Posted in: Employment, Fiction Filed under: employment, fiction

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