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Sandra Kucinich-Horn 378 Charmel Place Columbus Ohio 43235 614-352-6748 sandrakhorn83@yahoo.com1091 wordsCousinsby Sandra Kucinich-hornMartha burst into the parlor with a letter in her hand. “They’re coming!” She said.“Who’s coming?” I asked.“Why my cousins from Cleveland. I haven’t seen them in years. And they’re coming here. To see me! All this way.”“Martha, that's wonderful. When are they coming?”She looked down at the letter. “Why, according to this, in a few days. You’ll love them.”Martha and I have lived together for many years. Being single, we pooled our resources, bought a house, and ...
Sweet Slopes
He didn’t see it and because he didn’t, he crashed into it. He didn’t feel he had hit it that hard but apparently, he hit it hard enough to cause a trip to the ER with a concussion and two days in the hospital. When he woke up, he could only remember small biwww.onedoor.ccts and pieces of the entire trip. Charlie Juste and his two buddies Rich and Phil had come down to take on the slopes of Colorado. Phil was an expert sort to speak but the other two were newbies. Charlie and Rich had joined the gym to begin muscling up for the trip almost a year early. They also took classes to learn how to ski. Now, in Ca...
Adam and Akachi
Week 1 Akachi “Do they have these back home?”Did he really just ask me that?’ I thought. There's no way he could have been serious. They had warned me that people in the states tend to think immigrants are lacking knowledge, but this couldn’t be real. I give time before responding. He could have been joking. But I sat there with a slightly dumbfounded face long enough for me to know he was not joking, and for him to think I didn’t know what he was talking about. “Do we have…restaurants?” I asked “Yeah um, I mean like these, sit down places and stuff?” He quickly spewed in responseI could tell ...
My Friend, Stella
I remember seeing Stella for the first time on a Wednesday in October of 1950, we were both eleven and in the 6th grade. It was lunchtime and she was sitting alone in a corner of the school yard not eating. In the next few days I’d see her eating crackers sometimes, but she never had anything to drink until we went back in and she’d spend a long time at the water fountain.Everyone who brought lunch got to picnic when the weather was okay and we gathered into groups with our friends. I didn’t have any real friends, I was the school nerd, so they only talked to me when they needed homework done....