Glissade

  He brought an honesty to work deemed unskilled and menial. A self-respect that towered over the egos of overlords occupying fancy positions, in a hierarchy of thanklessness. He had to work. As a younger man, he preferred the solitary jobs that kept him away from the world for days and weeks. Sometimes it got …

A few hours later, you were trying to rebuke grief. You smiled, leg-working, lori iro…

War

When they walked into the cathedral, God watched them walk. When the bullets prepared to leave the gun, they left the gun. The prayers shielded nothing. The father against his son shielded nothing. The bullet will always obey, find a way through the body's anxious defense. I am tired of writing about my country. Every …

You are becoming a version of a person okay with the passing of a father.

She imagined that she was Mary on the run to Egypt to save Baby Jesus.

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