Fall leaves are dropping, autumn arriving in typical colors and smells. A cool breeze hints at winter. But not just yet. A lady sits on a front porch, smiling, as she watches a brilliant-red cardinal clinging, calling out from his perch. His persistence pays off and a young female swoops in, shy but determined. The …
For Jimmy, Who Bruised By Ribs and Busted My Nose
I had a bully who pursued me nearly every day during middle school until one day I'd had enough. I round-house punched him in the face, bloodied his crisp white t-shirt. His dad came to the house and threatened to beat up my dad because I beat up his son. "See, this is why I …
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Pale As Milk
I live in a constellation of memories of visits to Grandpa Roy and rides on his bulldozer, visits to the hospitals where Uncle Jeff insisted on illness for the free room, free meals, the free cable TV, visits through the phone line after midnight when Uncle Culby wanted to play me a song by The …
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A Review of “The Arsonist” by Sue Miller
Sue Miller is the best-selling author of such novels as The Lake Shore Limited, The Senator's Wife, Last in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, and The Good Mother. Her short-story Inventing the Abbotts became a major motion picture starring Jennifer Connelly, Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, and Michael Keaton. The Arsonist is Sue Miller's …
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The Accidental Apologist 