Smuggs ’14 Chronicle (Interlude): Vacation Dreams
A dream in which H says, “I thought you were upset with me.” And I feel relieved. Another: I team-teach with an older ELA teacher at a new school. Students perform Shakespearean English in...
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Self-perception
ambitions nurtured by love-filled hearts stars in the eyes Life – a game of cards with unexpected deals shows and surrenders, bearing the brunt of clubs and spades awaiting emergence of jokers in the...
But Really, (really) Fake
What if you quit? I’ll wait for that answer till doomsday Churchill discussed this topic at length to the bullets and speakeasy-like culture of tyrants but eventually rode high What if you enlisted and...
Smuggs ’14 Chronicle, Day 6: July 30, 2014
She serves from half-court. I return forearm. She backhands it over the net. I race into position and pivot, delivering the best backhand of our volley. Did she return it? Did I? Getting water...
Moon – Part One
Short Story A moonless night in a forest of silence. Save for a single soul. A hunter stalking between the trees. When he moved he was nothing more than a shadow in the trees,...
My Mother’s Body
Family Fiction I came from my mother’s body. Not quickly, not easily, but violently. I punched the air and tore holes in the room with my vengeful war cry and trembling limbs. Covered...
