There’s no official name for Talon Island. The small island is roughly four-hundred and fifty feet long and a hundred feet wide. Even this is subject to the water level of Kentucky Lake. I’ve seen…
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It’s official: I’m an old man. For the last couple years, I’ve comforted myself by saying I’m in my “early 70s,” but math is simple and unforgiving. Today is my 75th birthday, and God, the…
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When I was younger, I had an imaginary friend who lived in this tiny room/attic space. I was an only child so I usually ended up playing alone. My parents would always say Rosemary was…
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This happened to me so long ago, and I have been wanting to post this for a while… I just never found the words for what I saw before now… I was about 8 or…
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My name’s Rain. I’m about 22 years old, and I’m currently unemployed because of the fact I quit college. I live in a shitty, studio apartment in a smelly building, but I can barely scrape…
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I am dying. No, scratch that; I’m already dead. I’ve been dead for a long time. I just didn’t know it. But now my body is shutting down. My flesh is rotting away. I can…
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She’s staring at me again. She has been, almost every day, for the last ten days. Just staring. Let me start out by saying that I live in a big city on the East Coast.…
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“Maybe one day I’ll be an astronaut… maybe.” As I sat there on my son’s bed late that night, I heard in him the kind of limitless ambition that I wish I could have held…
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A long time ago, when I was around six or seven and my grandfather was still alive, I remember asking him about the kitchen door which led to an overgrown lot out back of our…
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I didn’t always want to be a lifeguard. When I was young I wasn’t even a good swimmer; my physique was more suited to doritos and playstation than athletics. But one summer something terrible happened…