âIâm going blind,â I told my wife when we moved to our new gothic-style home in Griswold on a breezy day in early April. It was a wedding gift from my estranged father âa beautiful two-story structure with pointed arches, board-and-batten siding, large stained-glass windows, and a steep-pitched roof that […]
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âMy dear, are you awake?â Nikki Chambers had fallen asleep on her best friendâs tombstone when she heard those strange words from a woman with an airy, almost velvety voice. She lifted her head from the granite to see the womanâs low vamp, tawny slippers, and flowing green skirt. She
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When I was ten years old, my brother came home to die on a frigid day in January. Purple lesions ravaged the skin that barely covered his bones. He looked an awful lot like a skeleton, unlike the friendly visitor I had come to know over my short lifetime. My
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âI still have nightmares about my mother,â I told my friend Zack on a frigid October night in downtown Mystic. âSheâs running through the DariĂ©n jungle from a man dressed head to toe in camouflage. His face is shadowy and deformed. I canât see my motherâs face, but I can
When Jade was only twelve-years-old, her father came home one afternoon with his arms and legs covered in claw marks. Jade felt confused and excited about his appearance. While she didnât like seeing her dad hurt, she wondered if he finally bought her the cat or dog she wanted. He
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My best friends Darius and Jordan learned about my fear of swimming during an impromptu tubing trip on the Farmington River. The summer after I turned twenty-six, Darius and Jordan took me to Foxborough Park, a park that ran alongside the river. Foxborough Park had recently undergone improvements as a
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The first time Sasha got high, she stood face-to-face with a black bear in the backyard of her friendâs house. She was giggling while her two best friends Jade and Colt stood behind her absolutely terrified. She wasnât sure why this was her reaction or what other drug those edible
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When my grandfather passed away during an early winter, my family scrambled to rid the house of his belongings before the first major storm. The asphalt-shingle roof of his one-story home was collapsing inward after years of neglect and most of the windows were boarded up with cheap plywood. Instead
