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NonFiction - Year VI - Number 47 - April 2021

    THE BLUE ROOM by Shelbi Tedeschi

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    The Blue Room I lie in the spare bedroom of our little house. First house. I am wrapped in a twin-sized comforter from one of our college dorm rooms, even though the room is too...

    GAME POINT by Richard C. Lin

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    Game Point “Hey, handsome,” says a sweetly familiar voice from the right of me as I enter the gate at the airport. I turn to look, and again a riptide sweeps me away, drowning me in...

    GRIEF AND HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS by Donald Zagardo

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    Grief and High School Reunions They live in the back of my mind like a waking dream. I can never forget them. I don’t want to. They were my girls, my friends and lovers who...

    WHEN YOU’RE AGORAPHOBIC AND YOUR HUSBAND GETS CANCER by Suellen Meyers

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    When You’re Agoraphobic and Your Husband Gets Cancer Seated on a cold concrete bench outside Saint Rose Hospital, I saw my brother-in-law and his new girlfriend coming up the walkway from the parking lot. “I...

    SINK AND SLUDGE by Billie Pritchett

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    The sink is clogged again. I’ve brushed my teeth and now the sink is just a porcelain bowl of cloudy water. It’s morning, and I’m tired, and I need to take a shower and...

    BLUEBERRY DOGS by Sara Wetmore

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    Blueberry Dogs I am six years old and I am stapling a stack of printer paper together, right in the center where I’ve folded a sharp crease so that it will fold in half. I’m...

    CATCHING UP by Derek Nast

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    Catching Up   Some years ago,  I watched the movie, “A walk to remember.” Closer to the end of the flicka particular scene stuck out as Jamie and Landon were outside on the balcony, dancing...

    THE SLIVER OF A LIE by Linda Caradine

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    The Sliver of a Lie Once in a blue moon, we may meet someone who appears to have life figured out, someone who knows intrinsically the right things to do and say in any given...

    ROUSING BITS OF ASSORTED WHOLES by Joseph O’Day

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    Rousing Bits of Assorted Wholes Joseph O’Day             Every December I used to rip out listings of best books of the year from The New York Times and The Boston Globe and store them in the...

    WHAT WE’VE KNOWN ALL ALONG by Conor Mulvaney

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    Title: What We Knew All Along It has been a long, preventable, predictable four years. This isn’t an essay about vindication. This is an essay about defeat. By Conor Mulvaney On November 7th, 2016, at 5:03PM, I...