Tristan and Isa_A Leaf Snowballs_Someone New_Unexpected Music
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Tristan and Isa
We all have big dreams as kids, don’t we? I dreamt of some grand things: being a singer, or an Olympic skater, for instance. I also dreamt of mundane things, and these were my biggest dreams, the ones I held tightly in my heart. The really really really wants: I wanted to be a professor, and a writer. One of my dreams came true.Obviously, you have never heard of me. Which means that I didn’t get famous. I am not an Olympic skater. Not a singer. Not an author. I am a professor. Not something glamorous like Global Politics, or Astronomy. Me? I teach English. Boring old composition and literature...
A Leaf Snowballs
Nadine wouldn’t have even noticed the giant leaf, yellow with brown spots like a gracefully aging banana, if her three-year-old son hadn’t recently become obsessed with the leaves on the ground during the walk home from her mother’s apartment when she picked him up in the evening. Yesterday he had spent ten minutes comparing shapes and relative sizes of yellow triangular ginkgo leaves and mastering the pronunciation of “gingko”. She wasn’t sure what type of tree this huge leaf had come from, but she picked it up, planning to tuck it between the pages of the English workbook in her back...
Someone New
Jaime and Henry had picked the neighborhood because it seemed to be the idyllic suburban oasis that had eluded them when they were a childless couple living in the city. Jaime missed the city, it had always been her home and she had always felt such a strong connection to that place - but Henry had worn her down over these past few years. When she was pregnant and more than happy to take the subway everywhere, he seemed to find the urban lifestyle more and more unbearable. He had grown up in a neighborhood like this one - with wide, clean sidewalks, neatly trimmed lawns, and the gentle rush of...
Unexpected Music
The coldness of twww.onedoor.cche room had nothing to do with the temperature. My father and I had avoided each other for several years. Ever since I found out he had another life for most of my childhood, I couldn’t look at him the same way. He missed many of my events because he “had to work,” and it was clear those really were just excuses for him to spend time with Justina. Her name was ironic because everything about her was not justified. She spent time with a man who was already married with three kids and a life that needed him. However, together they drove wedges into our family for years and had ...