family
Family unites us; but it's also a challenge. All about fighting to stay together, and loving every moment of it.
Little Black Book
As past events in my life began to unfold, I found myself losing grip on reality. 20 years of hardship and heroin led to the loss of my marriage, a relationship that I felt defined a huge portion of my life. We tried to make it work but when our 10 month old daughter passed whatever remained just crumbled.
By Tommee Samsara5 years ago in Humans
The Cadillac
The Cadillac by: benjamin murray jr Growing up Country, surrounding by the natural crops of the seasons were not bad for a negro boy of 1947. I had no dreams or desires, aspirations but to play, playing was my game and I felt no shame. Saturdays was going to town day (The Back Lot) where the real playing begin.
By Benjamin Murray5 years ago in Humans
A Thruppenny Bit
Her first real find had been a thruppence. It had taken a good hour or so of methodical plodding up and down between unkempt hedgerows before anything in the least bit exciting had happened, but it had all felt incredibly worth it the second she had spied the brassy coin in the dirt. To Rachel, kneeling in the soft earth damp from the morning drizzle, it was a real treasure. It hardly mattered that the coin was practically worthless or that it was barely forty years old. She had found it. That was all that had mattered.
By Philoctetes5 years ago in Humans
A Grandfather's Grandfather Clock
About 10 years ago, my aunt’s house was demolished by a tornado. I wasn’t there at the time, only arriving after the house had fallen and my Aunt Mattie had been released from the hospital. While we were there rifling through the debris, I had come across an old grandfather clock that had apparently fallen from the attic. It was just a regular, unexciting grandfather clock. But it struck me as odd as I had lived in that house since my parents died when I was six and I had never seen that clock. Aunt Mattie shrugged it off and just said that it had belonged to her father. Aunt Mattie said she hated the clock, but when Grandpa Charles died, she could not bear to get rid of it. So she had one of the neighbor’s sons bring it to the house and place it in the attic.
By Piper Perring5 years ago in Humans
Power Outage--Wait, What??
The year 2021 has come with challenges that millions of us had yet to even consider living through. With COVID-19 trampling the idea that we are a people of such technological and scientific advantages, that a virus such as the one we are currently fighting daily could ever reach us, let alone exist, it has come to my attention that a deadly virus is not the only thing out there taking a stand against life itself.
By Terri McGee5 years ago in Humans
Surprize
She had always played the same numbers and had not come close to winning in all the years,but today was different.She must have looked at the numbers 100 times and yes it was true she had won twenty thousand dollars.The old house she had lived in for 25 years needed a lot of work so this couldn't have come at a better time.At least she could get something done that she had been putting off for years now.
By Sara Walsh Paschal5 years ago in Humans
Bad Girl House
Relief from being pregnant in the summer heat finally came. I started feeling contractions the night of August eighth at around ten o’clock at night. We had learned all about waiting until my contractions were ten minutes apart before calling the midwife and heading to the hospital, so I tried to relax by lying down for a while. While they got closer together, we called our parents to let them know that baby Jessica was on her way. Even when it was time to go, I didn’t think that the pain was too terrible. The intensity of each contraction was nothing that I couldn’t breathe through. I suppose that four years of learning to control my breath to sing was coming in handy now. Also, I had grown up with those terrible cramps, that were almost as bad as what I was going through in labor.
By Kathy Sees5 years ago in Humans
Bad Girl House
As the summer approached, John’s father still didn’t have any leads on long term work. John was looking for work using online job boards, but couldn’t find a job that he felt was worthy of his skill set as a carpenter. He wasn’t finding anything that was going to pay him what he believed he was worth. His overpowering ego wasn’t willing to take a job that would simply provide a salary that would support his family. There was a strong possibly that his recent arrest left a lasting mark on his record that kept him from getting hired anywhere that required a background check. I had to stay home to watch Jessica instead of attending his upcoming court dates, so I didn’t know exactly what he had been charged with. Whether it was John’s unsuccessful search or his growing police record, he eventually stopped looking for a job. Instead, he decided that the most logical and promising option was to find me a teaching position for the coming fall.
By Kathy Sees5 years ago in Humans
A Feeling
There’s this feeling. One you get right before something terrible happens. You have this quiet moment where everything is numb and you’re not exactly sure what the terrible thing is, but you know it’s coming. This really devastating, life altering, terrible thing and there’s nothing you can do but wait for it to happen. You wait for it in stillness. Thinking that maybe if you don’t move, maybe don’t breathe it won’t hear you and it’ll leave you alone. Go on its way and be terrible for somebody else, but this kind of terrible doesn’t disappear no matter how frozen you remain. It calls you up in the voice of your husband and tells you that your single most favorite human will no longer be a part of your life, because she was sick and decided not to burden anybody with the details. She decided that she would leave without warning and to top it off, she called my husband just before. I know he was her son, but I was her best friend. Or, at least she was mine. I never had a mother growing up and that was fine with me because I didn’t know what I was missing, but she changed everything.
By Emily Bartlett5 years ago in Humans
