siblings

Siblings are the only enemy you can't live without.

Excerpt 2: Beneath The Mushroom Cap
6am 8th December 2016 The morning comes, and we awake to an atypical continental. There is dragon fruit, watermelon, and a specification Laden omelette. Something which seems a little over the top, until they make you exactly what you asked, and it envelops me. That in this culture what you ask for, you get. In Britain I guess the best we have is to ask for an omelette and see what arrives, so much so that even the choice of variability in Britain constitutes as a favour and not within the rights of service.
By S R Gurney6 years ago in Families
Mix Well
I’m standing under the ‘Cake Mix’ sign in a grocery aisle trying not to have a meltdown or pee, both of which I desperately need to do. First, vanilla or chocolate? Funfetti? She never likes anything. Should I even make a cake or just get the cake mix for cupcakes? Can you make brownies with cake mix? Because brownies would be more casual. After that, THIS is the trick right here. She’s not even going to come, so you make as well pick something you like since you’re the one going to be cry-eating it alone tomorrow night reading her texts full of lies and bad excuses. And of course, why don’t they more prominently display where the restrooms are in this place??? I have 10 minutes left to finish this errand, $13.20 in my bank account, and 3 hours until Mallory presumably arrives at O-Hare Airport for her birthday weekend.
By Hytes6 years ago in Families
The Grand Canyon
My sister and I always wanted to travel growing up, but coming from a lower class family and becoming teenage mothers, we’ve never gotten the opportunity. She always said that she wanted to see the Grand Canyon but surprisingly that was never on my list. I wanted to see what was outside of our borders. I never wanted to stay in it much less see more of it. I’m 27 now and my sister died six years ago. I’ve never been quite the same mentally or emotionally but now I take care of her children and mine, gratefully. I’ve believed since then that I needed to somehow live and experience for the both of us, even buying those gross chocolate covered cherries she loved to somehow keep her alive. It’s like I think that buying stuff she loved would somehow keep her spirit around, knowing I don’t really believe in things like that. Which almost makes me mad at her for making me buy this god awful candy.
By Jenna Jones6 years ago in Families
I got my tooth kicked out
We had a babysitter who was mean. I think one thing we held against her was that she made us eat tuna fish crackers - which we hated. Oh and she also screamed at us a lot. She usually made us play outside while she was inside. I think she was watching kid-inappropriate shows on tv and talking on the phone to her boyfriend. She was also our next-door neighbor. I would go inside when I would see her in her own yard. I did not want to interact with her any more than I needed to.
By N J6 years ago in Families
A Letter to My Sister
Dear Sister, Standing in the shadows wasn’t always pleasant, but I looked up to you. You were always full of creative ideas, visions and knew where you were headed. You always knew what you wanted and how to get it. I never had a plan for my life, I never knew exactly what I wanted. I just drifted through my life. You always had the lengthy Christmas list of wishes and I didn’t. I cannot remember a time that I ever wanted for anything. I never had a list, nor did I know how to create one. I still feel that way. I always felt like the outsider looking in at our life and everything that surrounded it.
By J B6 years ago in Families
Daisies in the Meadow
Daisies always were Mama’s favorite flower. Jessica Harper, a petite, dark-haired vision, gave birth to two children in her lifetime and got to raise them on her own.
By Hannah Pugh6 years ago in Families
CO-incidence or What?
My sister died last year on the 20th January 2019. She was in a home at the time of her death, and had not been well for some time.
By DAVID PRIOR6 years ago in Families
To My Sister
Dear Sis, I remember when I was only about 5 when you would have me up in the air by your feet on my belly and it was the funnest thing ever.
By Grace6 years ago in Families
Thank you! Big Sister Hannah!
Thank you, Big Sister Hannah! Was it yesterday? During dinner, my seven-year-old niece, Jessica cast a question to me. At first, I didn't understand what she was talking about. Because it was not a question to ask at that young age, it was a difficult question at that age to make a sentence that would make sense.
By Thomas Pak6 years ago in Families
The Boy Who said Goodbye
Who did the mess? 'Why did you put all the clothes on the floor?' Screeched mum with utter frustration. Well you couldn't blame her. She walked into the bedroom and guess what she found? All the clothes are out of the drawer and scattered all over the carpet and there he was, the alleged criminal, little Ivan.
By Shanta Sultana6 years ago in Families
In the winter of twenty-nineteen,
In the winter of twenty-nineteen, I began thinking about Cody. I had recalled those nights not so far from here, where we once lay together. The trees were bare, stretched out behind our window, and the sky was always so blue. While I thought about it, I could smell that air again, like treacle, through our open window, and it had breathed across layers of dust. And your bed- slightly warm against my back, and my hands were always in yours, and you’d nestle in my neck, too,- and your record player would sit on the cabinet beside us, where you would always play such soft music.
By Josh Mitchell6 years ago in Families
How I found out I was going to be a big sister again
Hi my name is Tara & I have a mom & dad & I really wanted a baby brother or sister. I didn't want to be alone in this world of ours.So when my baby brother was born his name is Jason I was so happy. It's Easter weekend mom & dad had taken us to the mall to get our Easter outfits for Sunday church. I was 10 & my brother was 11 months old.
By Tara Firman6 years ago in Families