Stories on This Week’s Prompt

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Some Memories Are Best Left In Closets
  Closets…. Funny topic in that something so mundane as a place where one hangs clothes, stores shoes and [...]
Why I Don’t Own a Gun
We never had a gun in our home while I was growing up. My first experience with guns came when a classmate (middle school [...]
Newton Community Chorus
I first wrote this story for the prompt “Finding Your Tribe” on March 14, 2020, just before the start of the [...]
A Quiet Moment by a Lake with My Father
My well-meaning father, a shoe department manager at J. C. Penney, with no experience in camping, borrowed camping equipment [...]
Mr. Meat Guy
My father employed the same grilling method as every other suburban Michigan father in the ‘50s: incineration.
Jonathan Kozol
Growing up in Detroit, I attended an integrated, large elementary school which encompassed grades K-8. At that time, the [...]
Across the Universe
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When I think of social media, the first thing I think of is Facebook. For me, Facebook was always about sharing pictures and [...]
The House That Built Me
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The house I grew up in had many wonderful features, including an attic and a basement, and both were put to good use.
Some Random Pandemic Thoughts
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Once the shutdown happened, a friend phoned me asking when I thought we'd be released from it. "June," I replied without [...]
Painful Still
The memories are still painful. A close friend once wished I could have a selective lobotomy to block them out. My family [...]

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