Why are all Budgies called Billy?_Take a Photo_The Mother of all Arguments_Jacob's Ladder
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Why are all Budgies called Billy?
“Straight back” she says while she clumsily marks the door jam above my head with her pencil stub. “There, you’re taller than your dad was at your age”. I turn and see the gouges and marks in the glossed white frame. The name ‘Derek age 9’ is just readable as well as Billy and Michael at various ages. Dad is a good inch below my mark and I imagine him standing here as proudly as me, maybe on tip-toes. I take a seat on the old kitchen chair and am studying the light gleaming through the net curtains when I’m drawn to the excited chirping next to me.“Pretty Boy, hello Billy” coos gran, puckering...
Take a Photo
Take a Photo Alan finds a glade with no overhead branches, stops and takes a photograph. If Winds continue to blow branches might come crashing down if winds blow up. Legs burning from walking in, focused on his mother’s presence. He finds it impossible to stop remembering her words.‘Won’t be easy, but after you’ve spread my ashes, you will be caretaker for this place. Visit me, occasionally.’Underfoot only hard ground, rough with exposed pebbles. Surface sand aright, but a clay base baked so hard he can’t drive in tent pegs. After fussing and fluffing around Alan made do with ropes. Took a co...
The Mother of all Arguments
Mack closed her eyes and rubbed her fingertips to her temples. She leaned back in her chair, inhaled deeply and exhaled, just like the yoga teacher had taught her. She was so mad at Ethan and he was furious with her. Even still, she knew he was taking things too far. She heard the front door creak open, flinching as it slammed shut a few seconds later. She knew he was back home, but from the sound of the door, he hadn’t cooled off. And neither had she. He walked past her, hands clenched at his side. She glanced at him as he walked past her into the kitchen, but didn’t dare make eye contact. S...
Jacob's Ladder
“Awake again?” Bobby stares into the nurse’s pale blue eyes. “Still trying to figure out if this is heaven or hell.” He views her curves as she bends down to connect the IV. He looks at the clouds beyond a tree in the window and then stares at her round bottom. “Oh, and how could this be such a horrible place?” “When you’re here, I get a glimpse of heaven.” He hears water dripping in a bowl and some slaps of sneakers in the hall beyond from some other kind of kingdom. The world begins to fade once again, and his vision blurs. The pain returns, and he sees the ladder ascending into the heavens...