Lucky Strikes_The Flannelly Family Famous Friday Fun Night, and how it all began_Library Reinvention
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Lucky Strikes
TW: alcoholism, substance abuse Spirytus VodkaLucky didn’t often drink. She drank only once a year for only one reason. The first few years after her sister’s death she drank alone. Her brothers and sister, they weren’t family. Not really. They were strangers, a group owww.onedoor.ccf orphans thrown together by chance. But not Lucky and her twin. They always had each other. They grew up together. She tipped the nearly empty glass around on its edges, eyes hooded as the weak pot lamp’s light bounces off the glass’s many angled facades. In each triangular chip she sees a memory. Seven, and crying as they wo...
The Flannelly Family Famous Friday Fun Night, and how it all began
1) Kathy Flannelly“Class, today we are going to keep sharing stories about our families and our traditions. Today is Katherine Flannelly’s turn. Kathy, please come to the front and tell us!” A young girl, no more than seven years old, with red hair and freckles, stands up. She smiles and skips towards her teacher. She is holding a big bag full of boxes. “What have you got for us, Kathy?” “Well, Mrs. Thompson, I brought some games!” she takes out a set of chess, some dominoes, three or four card games, puzzles, and a huge box with colorful dices, some wooden meeples, and plastic tiles. “This is...
Library Reinvention
I don’t know how to tell Henry that every time he ends a sentence with a question mark and an exclamation point I want to personally declare nuclear war on him. Some may call this overreacting, but after two months of tutoring him in English, you’d think he’d at least learn how to use correct punctuation. “Henry, what do you think is wrong with what you just wrote?”“I dunno. Isn’t that your job? You’re supposed to tell me what to fix.”“Well, no not exactly.” I plaster on a syrupy smile, “My job is to help you recognize your mistakes and how you can fix them on your own.”“My last tutor jus’ to...
California Dreaming
Miriam sets her suitcase on her twin bed and carefully begins to place her folded clothes inside, taking her time. Her pink bedspread and sheets are already packed up in a cardboard box across her room. She only has a few more hours left in this bedroom and she’s trying to savor the last moments she has in it. Miriam has conflicted feelings about moving. This has been her home for the past 14 years since she was born. When Miriam hears songs about California on the radio, she hears people sing about beaches, palm trees, and sun-kissed skin. And maybe some girls from her school are living the ...