Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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It’s Behind the Ears, Father
On the weekends, at a dance, away from school, --in the real world, we would pull that length of hair out from behind and [...]
Starting a Marriage in a Garden Apartment
My first real apartment, not counting the college one with mean notes posted on the refrigerator to clean the bathroom and [...]
The Way We Were
The house looked sort of lived-in, and we loved it, eclectic and thrown-together though it was.
Angels
Suddenly, the top of the tree bends under my weight and in an instant I am upside down, scrambling to hold on to the soft [...]
Delivering the news
I would go to bed half dressed in a tee shirt, and at the first sound of the alarm, quietly roll my legs over the edge of my [...]
The Friday Dress
Being pretty much the academic nerd, I’m reasonably certain that no one in my mid 1960s high school life looked to me [...]
Cash
My grandfather loved horses and gambling more than he loved my grandmother, so he spent a lot of time at the racetrack.
The Watchers
“So Mom, guess what happened today?” She’s washing, I’m drying. The house is finally quiet, everyone is settling down, and [...]
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