Stories tagged with "porch"
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A Love Supreme: The Lark Ascending (Part 4)

I perched myself on the second-floor porch’s balcony rail, looking down on the young violinist who was about to play with the…
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Front Porch Conversations--Nine

“Hello there.”
“Hi…”
“So you’re back.”
“I guess…”
“Is this the point where ‘never’ ends?”
“I guess…”
“And you don…
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Front Porch Conversations--Eight

“Look at that bird!”
“Ooh, it’s so pretty!”
“What kind is it?”
“I dunno.”
“You DON’T KNOW?”
“Um, yeah. I don’t know.”
”...
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Cherries and a Thunderstorm

My brother left a bowl of Rainier cherries on the kitchen counter this morning. Drops of water still hugged the red and yello…
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To Be With Ben Again... [Make Someone's Day Challenge]

I came back, but Ben was gone.
I went to his grave, stood there for a while as the sun rose behind me, and walked off.
I we…
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Front Porch Conversations--Seven

“OW!”
“Oh God, what did you do this time?”
“I scraped my knee on a rock.”
“Again? What is wrong with you?”
“No, it’s the …
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Front Porch Conversations--Six

“Why?”
“Oh, God. You’re in another one of your ‘what is the purpose?’ moods, aren’t you?”
“Why?”
“Yeah, you’ve got that lo…
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So Many Variables, So Few Guns

Despite his bulk, Agent Lefleur sidestepped gracefully along the porch tracking the movement of the shadowy figure through th…
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Front Porch Conversations--Five

“DIE! DIE! DIE!”
”...What?”
“Sorry, there was a spider.”
“Why’d you kill it?”
“Because it was a spider, and it was in MY …
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The Knowing

Some things you just know. Other things you’d rather you didn’t really know. Somewhere between these two Sissy meandered alon…
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