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Category: Family

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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

Daddy and I (Story by Risa Peris)

September 13, 2019 periswriter

Hello, Daddy. Have a seat. Well, you can’t really sit. You’re dead and we’re in Paris. It’s easy to get…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction

The Cruise (Story by Risa Peris)

August 12, 2019 Brian Coyle

Brandy was reckless. I knew that. I’m not sure why we were friends. She was wild. She went to college…

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Posted in: Adventure, Childhood, Family, Fiction
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Things Change (bp coyle)

July 17, 2019 coylewriter

Uncle Bert was Mom’s younger brother and she adored him. She was always telling stories about when they were kids.…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction
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A Kiss (bp coyle)

July 12, 2019 coylewriter

‘Are you going to tell?’ she asked. Her voice was slurred from all of the vodka she’d been knocking back.…

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Posted in: Family

The Death (Story by Risa Peris)

June 23, 2019 periswriter

A date for death is spooky. Unreal. My doctor said I had inoperable cancer. It was malignant. I would die…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction, Relationships

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