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At the End of the Earth
CW: discussions of drowning, ambiguous discussion of parental death By Beck Morawski It’s one of those fall nights where the weather’s downright ungainly. It’s all lopsided, growing into the chill, not quite ready to give up the weight of summer but still punctuating evenings with thick fog and brittle salt-air wind. You like nights like…
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Spit On It
By: Leah Holbrook Sackett Nancy wailed like any baby when wet or hungry. She grew into her quiet phase. Her Dad said Nancy had a soft mouth, then rained down kisses and praise for keeping a cool head. Dad was a union negotiator for Sweetgum County, he earned his living among the loud and willful.…
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Tiny Wars
Joseph Huckleby was a man of absolutes and specificities. His lawn was trimmed to precisely two inches. Stray leaves and debris were cleared within hours. Any snowfall above an inch needed to be shoveled immediately. At eighty-years-old, he was wilting like the leaves on the apple trees he had on the northside of his property.…
Heartland Society of Women Writers 