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Category: Childhood

A Slow Day

A Slow Day (bp coyle)

April 22, 2021 coylewriter

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

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

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

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
bp coyle, brian

Sticks and Stones (bp coyle)

July 1, 2020 coylewriter

‘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

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

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

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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