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Opening the door in the night to find two law enforcement officers on the front porch. Choosing a casket for her daughter and then seeing her daughter in that casket. A casket instead of a car, a headstone instead of a letter jacket, a funeral instead of a wedding. Learning to live without the insanity that was Sarah.
“No, ma'am, Mrs. Emerson. You see...she...she was...Well, Mrs. Emerson. She was in the water.” Shadows and Shades is the story of two families struggling to make meaning of senseless situations: death, drugs, divorce, and deliverance. “...you think you are going to mandate to me what happens to this child. Hell no. Hell no.”“Do you think he admires me now? From his grave?”“... you are all those things. The beautiful part and smart part and all the rest.”“Well, I have news for you. I. Take. Out. My. Own. Trash.”
A second book of poetry by Lorrene Desbien. Includes Rhythm of Woman, Fine Christian Grandma, In the Shadow of the Jail, Lizzy Q's Dead Daughter, Queenie and I am Old
Scarlet Fever almost killed Deuteronomy when he was a baby. It was in his mother's arms that he had his first vision, one he largely forgot, but one that will come back to him at the end of his life...and the end of the world. He carries in his drunken, old mind the secrets of eternity. As he becomes weaker and his dreams become more prophetic in nature (signalling a cataclysmic end to the world), he melds his conscious self with his dream-world self. Despite a looming deadline ticking (unbeknownst to humanity) people continue to chase behavior lacking redemption, possessions instead of substance, and indifference over commitment.
A book of the poetry written over a lifetime of healing that occurred in the span of four years.
Resources for teaching civil rights in the classroom including websites, poetry, literature, speeches, news articles, and quick writes.
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Gems, shards, quickies, bon bons, snapshots, nuggets, tickles, or even pinpricks. Each 100 Word Story is its own kind of special. NOTHING SHORT OF presents the best of 100 Word Story, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. In these very short stories, every word, every detail, every moment matters. And the things left out, the spaces around the stories, are just as intense. What can a hundred words do? They can send chills, they can bring you to tears, they can take your breath away. In often racy, always charged encounters -- from wild messy breakups to a disgruntled clown dinner to quiet revelations over folded laundry -- these 100-word stories take us to lightning moments when everything, big and small, is at stake. In NOTHING SHORT OF, a hundred words is all you need.