My friend Beth was ambushed by her younger sister when they were up in the mountains staying together. Beth is one of five children. She’s the second oldest.Both her oldest sister and her youngest are deceased and neither she nor…

let these be different between two characters! let it influence their dialogue in productive, juicy ways! not as helpful as expected, more stubborn, fox and owl: fox and TK girl she's going through wanting to miss her, her own future…

With Jean Pierre's help we located the local hospital and found the emergency room. The nurse was very nice and helpful and I soon had eight stitches neatly sewn into my skull. I was no worse for the wear. I…

His mother finds it difficult to distinguish between life and fiction. Just yesterday, the saleslady in the lingerie department of Nordstroms called to tell him that his mother was parading around in matching bra and panty sets, claiming she'd been…

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I introduced them, so I guess I’m responsible for the subsequent pain twenty years later…this is a long tale….one about which I’ve already written 70,000 words of a memoir that will probably never see the light of day......maybe one day...who…

The first time I saw you, you were on the beach with two kids. I didn't yet know that they weren't yours, that you took your sister's on Saturdays throughout the summer to give her a break. The little one…

When we arrived in Dover Jean Pierre and I had a plan. First we would recover my '69 VW Bug; bought new in Scotland for 1,200 dollars. No shit. Jean Pierre would buy me a tank of gas and we…

True outrage is a great cleansing experience, at least for the truly outraged. It isn’t only catharthic, it is transformative. Outrage is like sexual climax, it burns, it lights up, it shivers it does all the great and good things,…