Tag: Family

Nonfiction

Cemetery Story: A Muslim’s Memoir

BY NAZIA IFTEKHAR

I enter the cemetery and follow the all too familiar winding paths.

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Poetry

Decorating for Christmas – “What Can I Do?”

A little girl tugged at my arm and asked

“But what can I do?”

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Poetry

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Elizabeth

BY JOSEPH R. RAVITTS

“She’s like the hammered dulcimer she plays,” I thought; “she’s music, though it’s for the eyes–“

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Short Fiction

Living for Old Stoney

LIVING FOR OLD STONEY By Sarah Levesque Word count: 2366 Rating: PG Summary: An old man tells his great-grandson a war story. “C’mere son. I’m gonna tell you a story,” the old man said as he sat down in the rocking chair next to the boy. The boy looked up hopefully....

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My Mother’s Soul

BY KAT CLEMENTS

We will bring our children to see Mother’s library, and we will tell them stories about her and her books and encourage them to read.

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Poetry

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That Essential Link

BY DAN KELLY

That essential link, the continuity of our kind, I experience it again, life, on-going, unbroken.

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Short Fiction

A New Home

A NEW HOME By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word count: 1716 Rating: G Summary: An unhappy orphan finds a loving family The carriage rolled up to the gloomy castle as wave after wave crashed upon the distant shore. The boy curled up inside felt that the waves matched his emotions that dreary morning, angry …...

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A One of a Kind Lady: A Tribute to My Grandma Lucy

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI

I remember vividly the times I spent with her on family trips to New Jersey over the years.

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