A while later, after a few hours had passed and the little boy had wakened, the boy was sitting on the floor coloring and the father still waited. I offered to sit with the boy if the father would take a break and go for a walk to get a drink and a rest. He reluctantly agreed,...
The next morning Mom called me into the kitchen.“I have a(an) 11 ,”she said.“You and Helen are the same 12 . If you gave her your new red dress, I could fix you up the wool plaid(格子花呢)one that your cousin Esther sent.”I got a special feeling in my stomach. Give Hel...
“She is going” I said Her little chest hardly moved. Her breathing was so shallow! And then it stopped! For a couple of seconds there was no movement. No heartbeat. No breathing. And then a tiny little flutter…and then nothing! Just nothing!!
Important Definitional Note: I am not referring to Casual Party Voters, or oppositional “I’ll vote for this dude because I think that other dude is way worse. It refers to politicians and activists who actively work to advance the candidates in question. Remember that voters are not necessar...
“Yeah, we only got four men.’’ Someone counts. “Where’d he go, Rod?’’ The players look around. “He went to get some water, I think. He’s not used to this shit, he’s quitting. Just get another man.’’ “Come on, little brother,’’ says the tall player called “...
I quietly think, I bet you had the most stars, but of course I’m biased. Molly had a birthday today and I got a cupcake which Sheila ate, she says. That triggers memories of baking. Scottie –legendary Harrismith English teacher Helen Scott – made wonderful cupcakes. With little wings...
His vision has ordinary people hopping on top of a SpaceX rocket and going to space with relatively little training or skills—the same way we fly in planes today (kind of reminds me of how at one point, only a computer scientist could use a computer, and how outdated that concept ...
The place looks like it has been ransacked.BOB is a little rattled, but I remind him that that is usually what the place looks like. I am still calm. I start to look around for abody. The stench of 54 years of filter-less cigarettes would cover any smell of a decomposing body. ...
“What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth.” She began to cry. “I couldn’t get any pupils,” she said, “So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a ...
In 2005, I went to the pet store to get a fighter fish because why not have a little screensaver on your desk. When I got there, I walked by a glass terrarium with a golf-ball-sized tortoise in it. I asked to hold him immediately, lifting him up by pinching his shell between my...