8 a.m. Hung-over, I walked to the end of the pier with my snorkel equipment and the pier was one

I wear hearing aids even though my hearing is perfect. I wear them to keep from hearing all the sounds,

You’re sitting on your stoop thinking how much you hate the stoop, the building you live in with six side-by-side

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It was four days before my fifty-eighth birthday when my body started to fall apart. I was taking a late

I have a problem, well I have more than one but this one is Yuge. I can’t work in a

I said I didn’t know him and that he abandoned my mother and us three boys: ages five, four, and

by Hillary Leftwich A man respects a woman as much as she respects herself. Evelyn sets her hair, allows her