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Voice

by James B. Nicola I heard my mother’s voice today. Thanksgiving  weekend. Ten years this January. My nephew played a very loving voice  mail message from her he has kept on his  cell phone ten years. My brother said he has  kept three such messages. My nephew said  he had another one and wept awhile.  It made…

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Rusty Nails

By Donnarkevic I recognize the black balloons, the same kind used at the office party for my fiftieth birthday. Now sixty, I expected something more creative: black homburgs, melanistic leopards, caviar. I would have settled for farfalla schwarz (black bowtie pasta). Instead, I got first pick from a six-foot sub, Black…

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