"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of...

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Ghosts
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

Coming to terms with the tricks our minds play, fact or fiction? From what perspective are the dots connected? Patterns of...

I have to brush and floss and clip each nail, take aspirin, vitamins to ward off ills, clear gutters, flip the mattress, sort my mail. I can't forget to pay the rent and bills. It's time...

The woods grow smaller every year. My leaves Fall green and withered. Bitter water stings My shrinking roots. Yet I am Laurel still. I am the tree that one time was a maid, But that was long...

My mother taught me how to clip my nails. Just one more parent's duty I suppose. Self-care creates self-worth with such details, and how you treat yourself shows in your toes. She had a...

(after being stopped after my day-care shift) Exhausted, overwhelmed, confused, up-set. As when a toddler bellows on the rug. So small and powerless, her needs unmet, she fights me, but I...

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I'll go with ice and maybe death will come to offer me a frosty rest. I know I'll feel no pain, as all my limbs grow numb. I'll sleep beneath a comforter of snow. The body's wise. First...

I went into the staff room on my break. I opened up the 'fridge and got inside. The door slammed shut. That made the bottles shake. Good sign at least, the light stayed on. I tried but...