When the kids were small, we used to walk everywhere; I live in a town with a good bus system, and you don’t really need a car. We were poor (or financially embarrassed as I prefer to phrase it) and we didn’t need the extra expense.
I turned walking into a game; in the morning [...]
I’ve been collecting things since I was little more than a toddler.
When my house burned down 10 years ago, I lost a cigar box that contained a party favor from the very first birthday party I ever attended, a piece of quartz I found in a state park when I was 6, and many [...]
Jagged teeth
sifted from the sand
and found in a gift shop;
Prehistoric token of his vacation.
He likes the feel of it,
rough and warm against his skin.
Scarlet dreams.
Barbed visions of wiggling flesh
and perfume of blood.
He wakes smiling,
and hungry.
That night at dinner
his toothy grin made them uneasy
as he shoved away the salad
and attacked the sushi instead.
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I am Cherokee and Irish and German, and I come from a family of strong characters. Drunks, scholars, freeloaders, and farmers are scattered in equal amounts throughout my family tree, all of them personable, bright, and talkative. And all of them have a stubborn, hard streak of self-preservation that shocks when you come across it, [...]
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