Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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West with the Night
West with the Night Walking down a tree-lined block in the East 80s the other day I passed a brownstone with a pretty patio [...]
I’m Gonna Buy You …
"When you were hardly even three, you would sit with the Sears catalog on your crossed legs."
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Proper spelling has always come naturally to me, and I'm happy that I was able to pass that trait on to my children.
The Slurping of the Soup
And he cooked with a smiling twinkle,/His paring knife a-twinkle,/ His graters and ladles a-twinkle, as he prepped an amazing [...]
A Commitment Ceremony
Larry, will you take Laurel to be your lifelong partner? Will you love and respect her, be honest with her and stand by her, [...]
Lydia’s Cousin
RURAL MASSACHUSETTS, 1960ish — Over the past year, the girls had shot up… and out. They stuck pink plastic combs into [...]
Larger and larger tribes
...it is also comforting to believe that consciousness does not end with physical death.
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