Browsing the "death" Tag

Tomato Soup

November 28th, 2023 | by Judith Sharlin

Grief has a way of warping time


The Way Loretta Says Mommy

October 24th, 2022 | by S. Lynn Alderman

There’s no room for falling apart in the mountains, in the mines. In the company houses wondering if the doctor will make it in time. Collecting water from a spring on another holler because what runs to the house is poisoned by the same company that issues the pay that sustains you.


Lawton, Oklahoma

August 2nd, 2022 | by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

Mere hours after she died in the room alone, stale potato chips left on the adjacent table, my son emerged.


In the Fire

February 20th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein

Repetition is part of understanding. But it is a little bit torturous to have to tell your child the story of your mother’s cremation again and again.



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