You Can Call It a Love Story
“It’s never a good time for a giant space lizard to attack.” That’s Embry’s clever response. And he is quite right; there’s never a good time for a giant space […]
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Out of Time
So I finally said, “Well, I’ve had a quite enough of this.” And, boy had I. But they were not expecting that response. “What did you just say?” They continued […]
The Paper Boy
“They called me a magnate tonight,” he said, as he ducked his narrow, hatted head below the bannister, searching for Meredith in the dusty attic. “What?” “A magnate. They called […]
The Shift
I was sixteen when I felt the world shift for the first time. They all say I’m crazy but I know what I felt. I know what happened… or at […]
Ten Times a Failure
There’s a certain amount of failure that we, as adults, become accustomed to. It’s part of becoming an adult. We fail in love, we fail in school, we fail in […]
Me at 36
As our story begins, Danny Ward is 36 years old and standing in the shower in his parent’s new apartment in downtown Detroit. It’s two days after Christmas. And last […]
The Namesake
Here I sit and recount the final tale of the original Ethan Weatherby. I didn’t know him personally. I‘ve only collected that which can still be discovered from those that […]
Happy Numbers
The discovery of the existence of Happy Numbers, on a July Tuesday morning last year, made Kevin McCormack smile and laugh. In fact, it simply put him over the moon – […]
Everything’s Brighter
The doctor warned Lawrence Waters that the first forty-eight hours would be the most difficult. It’s not so much the shock to the system, but as the body accustoms to […]
Grace Olive Kettridge
Grace Olive Kettridge, who goes by her middle name, was born on March 7th, 1982 at 4:43 pm at St. Agnes’ Hospital in Townsville, Montana. Yesterday was her 32nd birthday. […]
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