Family stories

Homecoming

I arrive back in Ohio on a bleak, chilly February afternoon. My brother greets me with a hug and a joint, and we chat about my flight and gossip during the 45 minute ride to my parent’s house....

Betty H
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F%&K your stick figure family

If you’ve been nowhere near a road in the last four years, there are these stick figure stickers people attach to their rear windows....

Xavier Toby
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Skirting the Issue

I was shopping with my sister-in-law in an alley in Delhi. I found a calf-length tight skirt that I liked but wasn't sure whether it’d fit right....

Basically Blah
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Kids have a mind of their own

My 8 year old daughter decided to have a slumber party. All I kept on hearing from the room was the boys in our class did this and the boys in our class did that....

John
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Just a kid

Today I realised my son is a child first and a clay model waiting to be sculptured second. I'm a teacher and I am always looking for potential , a diamond less in the rough more in the mud....

Chris Newton
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Daughter.

She would skip and dance throughout the land. She would shout, she would feel waves of joy through the wind. ...

James Rankin
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