Category: Fictions/Stories

My New Year’s Resolution: No New Year’s Resolutions! For once, I’m resolving not to resolve. Perhaps it was the half-empty pint of “Chubby Hubby” in my hand that tipped me off. Maybe it was the astonishingly low number of classes I attended last semester, or maybe it was the rapidly expanding beer belly I have …

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There is a story in my family that we like to tell, that is taken out and dusted off and told and retold at every holiday gathering or get-together or reunion. It involves my mother, post-war America’s love affair with the movies and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lion. The way I recall the story is that my …

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I first met Anastacia Battuta when I was on a trip to Europe, gazing up at the white, shining, castle of Lakeshire. It was my first stay there, and I was awed that this castle – the very same – was where Cinderella and the Prince, now the King, lived. “What a happy place the …

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Delores counted herself extremely lucky. Life had handed her luxury on a silver platter; when her grandmother passed away she inherited a huge house in the country and enough money to maintain it well for life. There was really no need for her to work beyond managing the family fortune. She did that quite well, …

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Cathy was sitting across from me and my spaghetti and garlic bread. I had worked a ten hour day and was hungry and tired. Though I knew anything she had to tell me would go in one ear and out the other, I said I would meet her at the restaurant so we could discuss …

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