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Your children's fairy tales always come with a happy ending, but that is only because it is told by the ones who end up happy. In my tale, from my perspective, I am the good one, but because I was the [+]

"This is nuts," Haden said, slouching onto the bed, "What exactly was the assignment again?" "Interview someone you believe has suffered an injustice." Haden snorted, "and this is who you came up [+]

Let me say the stars and I now meet eye to eye.
Yes I mean the stars actually look at me.
It took me some time to accept.
But I've learned that your stars are true to you.
I'll tell you a [+]

It was the right call, he was sure of it. He had to be.
He sat in the captain's chair of the Event Horizon cruiser, much appreciating the irony of being torn apart by a black hole. As the [+]

The little worker ant resting on a sunflower contemplated all of the different decisions possible
And for this reason could not seem to choose
Due to understanding that decision is the eliminato [+]

The map says Fred Astaire's house: there. I lower my window, feel the warm arid breeze. Carole flinches.
Down here, at street level, a low chain-link fence shoulders masses of vine. Perhaps it's [+]

I remember her quick-footed return home after shopping; the bags put down on the kitchen counter and an admonishing word if my brother and I too quickly tried to peek into the bags. An always loving [+]

A little girl looked up to the stars in the sky
Counting all the specks that were as small as flies
They all stayed perfectly in place for her to tally
Except for the one that suddenly flew by [+]

It seemed endless, climbing towards the star-lit sky. Hundreds of thousands of them, crumbling, covered in moss. Erosion rounded the stone, made it softer. Rainwater pooled in the carved-out spaces [+]

It began as a whisper. Utterances here and there about something brewing but I didn't pay it much mind. Then it reached the Pacific Northwest—closer to home but still far enough away that I felt [+]

Who could imagine what might happen if your larger world were taken away, and you were left in a small, everyday space for a while. Lonely? Boring? Maybe not.
Years ago, I started a nature [+]

Psalm 92:12 "The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon"
I am here to comfort the dying.
So I tell myself while setting out my picnic
on a [+]