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Santa Wears Italian Leather. Top Story - December 2024.
Christmas Eve, Manhattan NY, 1989 I believed myself a romantic as my brain twinged with the rumblings of a delightful buzz. Mother had forced us into crisp blazers, quaffed our hair, and hurried us to a candlelight sermon at the Presbyterian church on Madison Ave. I was in trouble. Alec and I felt riotous after lunch in midtown. He and I pillaged the kitchen for airplane bottles and swigs of cooking sherry we stuffed in our pockets before nudging each other out the door and into stiff-backed church pews.
By M.C. Finch 2 years ago in Families
Crisp & Even. Top Story - December 2024.
“Who was Stephen, m’lord? He is a saint or prophet I assume, but do you know why he is worthy of a feast?” The king looked pleased, as he often did when I asked him questions. Despite his growing reputation as a font of Christian virtues like patience and hope, he mostly seems as if ordinary things vex him, but not questions. He is tall and strong; the silver in his hair and beard command respect without spreading seditious rumors about his advancing age.
By D. J. Reddall2 years ago in Families
The Mysterious Gate . Top Story - December 2024.
Rain tapped rhythmically on the window while Rubina was lying in the lap of her granny. It was about night but Rubina couldn't sleep like her granny. They both were dancing with their pupils while staring into each drop of the rain as it dripped down the shade of the fragile wood.
By Maryam Batool2 years ago in Families
They Must Return. Top Story - November 2024.
"Give back, to receive." Michelle Liew ********************************************************** The streets around Mrs Evelyn Crenshaw’s home were an idyllic picture of fall- streets scattered with maple leaves, lawns with pumpkin husks strewn by their sides, and the beginnings of wintry Frost building up on the windows of cars.
By Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin2 years ago in Families
I Never Met Her, But She Gave Me A Gift. Top Story - November 2024.
My grandmother passed away two weeks after I was born. She was only fifty-seven years old. Her name was Barbara. So, what's the story? My mother and her two sisters were born as illegitimate children — the scarlet letter that haunted my mom throughout her life. The sisters grew up in a stout Catholic neighborhood. Everyone went to Sunday mass and whispered behind the girls' backs.
By Ute Luppertz ✨ 2 years ago in Families
Saying Goodbye To The Other Woman. Top Story - August 2024.
In the beginning, she was merely a symbol, a wrecking ball that invaded our family and smashed it apart. I didn’t ask what her name was at first. If I knew her name, that would make her a real person who slept with my husband without a thought for his wife or his two young sons. In my grief was a speck of doubt that this was really happening and that my husband was walking out of our front door after sixteen years to be with her.
By Glenna Gill2 years ago in Families
