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Category: Parenting

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Toy Soldiers (bp coyle)

September 14, 2020 coylewriter

‘Are you happy?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘I knew you wanted it to be a boy.’ ‘All that matters is that it’s…

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Posted in: Parenting
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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
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They Grow Up So Fast (bp coyle)

February 2, 2020 coylewriter

I remember when Saturdays were for hangovers and reading. Now it’s off to the park, to the playground, at the…

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Posted in: Humour, Parenting

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

Is This Irony? (Story by Risa Peris)

October 7, 2019 periswriter

I dread teaching irony. My students were always confused and I was constantly trying to come up with a unique…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships
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Tadpoles (bp coyle)

September 12, 2019 coylewriter

‘Well that may be so Tina, but I’m still not sure about him.’ Tina rolled her eyes at her husband’s…

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Posted in: Humour, Parenting

The Gift (Story by Risa Peris)

July 9, 2019 Brian Coyle

She was not popular. She was a little chubby, had corkscrew chocolate colored curls, her clothes were often dirty and…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships

Child Bride (Story by Risa Peris)

June 15, 2019 periswriter

“I’d like to ask for your daughter’s hand in marriage.” Marvin was a tall man with muscular arms and a…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting, Relationships
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Plague (bp coyle)

June 3, 2019 coylewriter

David Miller groaned. Then he coughed. Then he sneezed. Then he groaned again. ‘I think I have The Plague,’ he…

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Posted in: Parenting, Relationships
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Minecraft (bp coyle)

April 29, 2019 coylewriter

‘Sarah!’ I shouted from my computer. ‘Sarah!!!!’ My eight year old daughter rushed into the room. ‘Yes Dad?’ I took…

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Posted in: Fiction, Parenting

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