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Miss Boyce
I rushed through the door with tears in my eyes. It was a small lab where Mom had landed a job making the finishing adjustments to dental pieces, dentures and bridges and such. It was the middle of the day … Continue reading
A Room of One’s Own
My son sat across the room, staring out the window. He had the deep, distance look of someone lost in a daydream, his eyes transfixed intently on the movie inside his head and seeing nothing in front of him. I … Continue reading
A True Ghost Story
My mother got sober in 1982, after hitting her “low.” She totaled her car in Oakland, but has a difficult time filling in the blanks between living in Portland and her car being wrapped around a pole in California. She … Continue reading
Raised By Wolves (I Wish) 