The Inkwell and the Writer

a vignette  Laurel moved into a two-bedroom apartment on Joy St. with her children.  The divorce meant selling the house and saying goodbye to the neighborhood where her kids played and where their skittish sheltie nervously barked at passers-by. Now living in an apartment with young kids and no support money– Laurel’s ex could not…

Good to the Last Drop?

  That Terry thought he was a vampire didn’t seem to faze Teresa.  It did faze his parents and friends. … A mother tugged a small boy through the outside door.  A teenage girl came out the inner door, crossed the room and left behind the mother and son.  A therapist stuck his head out…

Five Day Notice

When Janet first saw Dashawna, Dashawna was walking up the front sidewalk to the apartment building gripping a baby carrier in her left hand, a diaper bag in her right hand and over her right shoulder was slung a large bulging sack which seemed to stabilize her mid-step. The apartment building complex where Janet and…

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So last night I watch this movie, “Into The Wild”, about this young guy who leaves everything behind and heads to Alaska. I sit back in my chair and I cry. I was headed in that same direction in 1972. In those days, I left my dorm room at Moody Bible Institute one night and…