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HigginsA Chapter by Julia LedoDerek took me to Higgins after school the next day to make it up to me. Theo could spend his breaks with us. He sat us at a table in the back with all.. |
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Hello Operator?A Chapter by Julia LedoIt seemed that I had just fallen asleep when I heard glass shatter. It jolted me awake. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Dad wasn't suppo.. |
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TheodoreA Chapter by Julia LedoThat night Theo couldn’t sleep. Last I remember he was mumbling his fables. His soft words lulled me into unconsciousness. We had talked and tri.. |
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The WhereA Chapter by Julia LedoHe snuck out of my house with my father's clothes and went to get his things for school. He didn't make it there that day. Later I learned the police .. |
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NothingA Chapter by Julia LedoTheo arrived late to the power lines. He carried the bat and the bags under his eyes from last night along with him. He still wore my father's clothes.. |
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News Reports and Fist FightsA Chapter by Julia LedoRocking around on the bus, all the way to school I thought about the news story. Didn't they have any sympathy? Not even sympathy, compassion? Weren't.. |
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F This and F thatA Chapter by Julia LedoHe wasn’t home and I had an awkward introduction to his aunt. She was a large woman with a turnt up nose. Her stringy gray hair was pulled back .. |
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Palm TreesA Chapter by Julia LedoThe boulder was divided. There was red headed Mitch, Jackie and most of the other girls, Derek, and I on one side and everyone else on the other. Mark.. |
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Time BombA Chapter by Julia LedoIt had been a few weeks since our midnight walk. It was the beginning of March and colder than what winter had been. Theo's mother was home now and he.. |
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Thursday's Trash DayA Chapter by Julia LedoDeath isn't a resolution, it's an unsatisfying ending. He was found by a fisherman. It was a thursday, because I was cursing the garbage men and their.. |
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Roger DodgerA Chapter by Julia LedoSchool hired a grief counsellor and I was one of the only students required to go. More often than not I stared at the man with silence for an hour. H.. |
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PianoA Chapter by Julia LedoI was there when they buried him. His mother had hugged me close and we both cried for the loss of life, the loss of intelligence and promise. We crie.. |
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Piano PiecesA Chapter by Julia LedoThe thunderstorm arrived in more ways than one. Dad came home at midnight as lightning lit the sky and flashed through the windows. The usual banging .. |
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Piano SmithereensA Chapter by Julia LedoIt was sometime before I got Derek to help me with the removal of Theo’s piano. I asked him to bring a bat. There it sat in the graveyard of spl.. |
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How Arcas Changed My LifeA Chapter by Julia LedoLater on that night I put them on the bedside table in my room. As if I needed some reminder of him every morning. I suppose Derek was right though, I.. |
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Tar or Oil, Stained Either WayA Story by Roy MillerTar Or Oil, Stained Either Way explores the dynamic of convenience relationships in old age. |
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Splash The AshA Poem by DevonsIt lights my way; to me, a cure But chain-link of some ‘said’ disease Narcotic, fuming-scent, allure But sure to bring me to my knees.. |
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No SmokingA Poem by EmilyIn the restaurant there's no smokingExcept the kind from the cafe next doorThat lingers in the air and stinks up your noseAnd burns through the good c.. |
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