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Category: Childhood

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

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

November 1, 2019 Brian Coyle

  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

Never Leaving Wonderland (Story by Risa Peris)

October 31, 2019 Brian Coyle

Composed and performed by Risa Peris   All in all, it was a white rabbit that got me in trouble.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

No (Story by Risa Peris) (A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1)

October 29, 2019 Brian Coyle

“Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy Self thy foe, to thy sweet…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction Filed under: crime, family, fiction
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Rags (bp coyle)

October 20, 2019 coylewriter

She came one summer to stay with her maiden aunt who lived next door to me. I was ten, she…

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Posted in: Childhood
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Stray (bp coyle)

October 14, 2019 coylewriter

‘Everything was easy for you because you were the youngest. I was the one who ended up with all of…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

The Moon and The Fish (Story by Risa Peris)

October 11, 2019 periswriter

He would encircle me in his arms and heft me up near shoulders. “The moon,” I would yell. It seemed…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction

Cold (Story by Risa Peris)

October 9, 2019 periswriter

On a cold day, they stuck him in a cold coffin in the cold ground with the cold birds fluttering…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family, Fiction, Parenting
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Farmland (bp coyle)

October 6, 2019 coylewriter

‘This used to all be farmland when I was a boy,’ I inform my youngest girl. ‘Really?’ she asks in…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family
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Headphones (bp coyle)

October 4, 2019 coylewriter

I love headphones, they are the coolest things. I have AirPods. Daddy bought them for me after the time he…

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Posted in: Childhood, Family

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