Eternal 1. There’s a boarded up house with the word eternal painted on its side. It used to be a bridal shop: they made wedding dresses on that corner a hundred years ago. Mothers and maids of honor congregated inside…
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by Al Kratz If you look, inspiration is everywhere. The archive is brilliant. Look at the birth of a magazine. Look at the words growing up. Look at the flash. * Look at Christopher Locke’s story in the Winter 2014…
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Eventide Your face is the first to fade from memory; still your voice, a bow caressing the strings of a cello, holds me close. Your scent, evergreens dipping to the sea shore, calms me on days when I cannot locate…
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Nature Walk It was nature walk day and we were excited even though it’s just the path next to the school and the chapel and even though it only goes through two fields and even though we’ve done it loads…
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Snuffed Candles Samantha feared, in guilty moments, that she loved the lakes more than she loved her father. Today, on their usual monthly circuit, her father hobbled slowly, clutching his stick, and she looped her arm through his. Over the…
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