Kickstarter

  One of my reasons for changing my website over to WordPress was to make it easier to include pictures in posts.  So, look!  Pictures!  Behold my tiny trees! I backed a Kickstarter project called Pawpaw: The story of America’s forgotten fruit.  One of my rewards was a packet of […]

Pawpaw Trees!

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      Ronnie took a deep breath.  She reminded herself that she shouldn’t be nervous.  That Jim was her best friend.  And that if she waited, stupid Kristen might ask him first and ruin everything.  "So, prom."       Jim nodded.  "The very first on Mars."       "Want to go with […]

A Prom Princess of Mars

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For Savannah       Angry, frozen snowflakes hissed against Derrick’s window.  Cold seeped through cracks in his Dad’s stupid, sagging house and gathered around his ankles.       He pulled his afghan off the bed and pulled it to his chin.  The scratchy yarn smelled like gingerbread and sage incense.  Like […]

Finding Christmas

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      The adults all succumb to the sleep at the same time.  Our parents slump, boneless, to the floor.  Teachers sag onto their desks, cashiers fall next to their registers, bike couriers tumble sideways and roll.  The smallest children sleep as well.  Babies curl on their mothers’ breasts, soft […]

We Wait, and We Hope

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      Stanley initiated a standard scan and watched the numbers scroll across his screen.  "That’s not right," he muttered.  He stopped the test and restarted it.  He stared at the image on the screen.  His mind drifted.  He reached forward, and jumped when his fingers hit smooth plastic.       […]

Feeding the Master

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  For Dylan, Kiefer and Lleyton                  I spun in a fast, uncontrolled circle, my mouth guard half-out, my visor cracked, and my own blood floating in front of me in a spray of perfectly round orbs.              Gloved hands pulled the heavy, black rubber ball out of […]

Top of the Game

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