Dark places
The house on the top of the hill awakens. The large central window (its mouth) opens and its tongue unfurls (it’s actually the old lady...
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manuwrites
Jul 8, 20232 min
Freedom snatchers
Can you smell that? It smells like wet metal, rusty metal and something else. Blood and piss? So, he may have been here. Maybe, still is...
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manuwrites
Sep 9, 20222 min
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
If you loved Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, then prepare yourself for Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Douglas Stuart’s mastery of...
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manuwrites
Mar 8, 20222 min
The courtyard
Back then, during the cold winter evenings, the five women would gather in Ida’s barn to keep warm. They looked forward to this time of...
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manuwrites
Feb 18, 20222 min
A Bad Habit
She was very attractive, but her nails were bitten to the quick. This meant that her hands were usually balled into fists on her lap or...
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manuwrites
Feb 1, 20222 min
Pewter Sky
The day we met, a major storm was brewing. The city was a flurry with bits of paper and garbage whipping about in a crazy dance of leaps,...
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manuwrites
Jan 14, 20223 min
Vermilyea Avenue
I was hit squarely with the strong distinctive odor of cabbage and fried schnitzel while descending the stairs from my friend’s fourth...
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manuwrites
Aug 31, 20212 min
The wicked
Despondency had an address. Ours. Our house was one of a series of identical houses on the fringes of this forest. The ever present...
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manuwrites
Jul 23, 20214 min
A simple life
Her house is a fine example of symmetry. It is the type of house you first draw as a child. The feeling on the untree-lined street of row...
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manuwrites
Jul 16, 20213 min
Another place
We were completely surrounded. Bodies pressing into us, hands prying and violating; a crush of human flesh and bones. The ATM’s had been...
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