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Visiting Hours

In a loosely gathered knot, cousins from different airports arrive at her bedside, morphine placed beneath her tongue, a liquid sacrament. Friends want her to recognize them, to repeat names,

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Honey Cake

Before she died, she wore an orange ruffle to her 100th birthday party, now photographs on the walls, earth-tone paintings, the same shade as a coverlet thrown across her queen-sized

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Mustang

I’m on vacation from Chicago and visiting my girlfriend in Louisiana. Kathy and I met in college where we played on the same basketball team. This is my first time

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Ode to Fred’s

Fred’s, you Super Dollar Store tucked behind a Waffle House and a Sonic drive-through along Highway 165 in Sterlington, Louisiana, how many times have I parked in your lot to

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The Bottom Line

I will miss you the most in the evening after the dishes are put away and I’ve retired to the bedroom knowing there’s nothing on TV to hold my interest,

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Heart Poacher

I’ll tell you the story of the heart poacher, a man with a hunger for hearts. how he rides all day in a wagon looking for one that’s ripe, and when he

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