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If winter here were made of colored glass, this is the way the light would shine through the winter I was fourteen: the strange blue of icicles hanging like daggers from our roof, the gray of rain gutters heavy with snow that would not melt, the white of snow on brown trees, on brown ground, on the brown sawdust frozen Pond.

From my sewing table in the window, I watch for the clues that signify a change in the seasons...

We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech, and in the heaviness of their eyes. Everyone here was hungry. Everyone here knew too much about pain.

Finished!

“It’ll be too late by then,” I tell him, and he says, “It’s already too late, Rachel,” and when I look back at the terrace...

I was right, this morning, when I felt that dread. I just didn’t know what I had to be afraid of.

The ceiling was breathing. It bulged and receded. It swelled and settled.

Aiyee! cries the man, rushing at the nun, wielding a power tool.

I’m sitting in the emergency room at University College Hospital. I was knocked down by a taxi while crossing Gray’s Inn Road.

Megan 1 Year Earlier

May 1 Y.D.A.U Outcropping Northwest of Tucson AZ U.S.A

She's buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn. Not more than a little pile of stones, really. I didn't want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn't leave her without remembrance. She'll sleep peacefully there, no one to disturb her, no sounds but birdsong and the rumble of passing trains.

Wednesday 11 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

Very late October Y.D.A.U Hal Incandeza had this horrible recurring dream where he was losing his teeth, where his teeth had become like shale and splintered when he tried to chew...

30 April / 1 May Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment Marathe did not quite sleep.

Chapter 34 I came back to life through a dream.

November 14 Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment Poor Tony Krause had a seizure on the T. It happened on a....

“I should have told someone. I know that. I've always known that. I guess I was waiting for the right time to get this off my chest. I thought I might forget about it someday, but I didn't. I couldn't. Like I said, I still have nightmares.”

Punative curriculum vitae of Helen P. Steeply

Autumn -year of dairy products from the American heartland.