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Once upon a mid-October, there was a teeny, tiny snowflake that landed on a girl’s eyelashes. She squealed with delight as flakes continued to fall on her face, lacy cold kisses from above. Spinning around in her backyard globe, she sang a song of welcome to winter. “You were missed!” she whispered. Six months […] There’s a walnut in my neck. Or maybe it’s a gland that’s decided to be a walnut for a costume party. It’s enormous evidence that I am sick. It hit suddenly. One moment, I was strolling through the grocery store with five of the kids, feeling fine. Somewhere in the cracker aisle, I noted how […] 
Ollie: Surprise stunning ease. (Here are the other kids, originally published on June 23, 2011 as a part of a writing exercise.) Aidan: Complicated painful delight. Ryley: Natural, shaking, ecstatic. Sam: Sleepy, sudden, lunchtime. Tommy: Racing, sinking, racing. Joel: Flashbacks, hushed, gratefulness. Beatrix: Prolapse, cutting, alive. Archie: Kicking down door. Teddy: Backward, bound, freed. |
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