2152 Resolutions_Stop-Starters_HOLDING ON_Mick's first job
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2152 Resolutions
Meyer. Just Meyer is what I go by. I’ve spent the entire year trying to live up to the promise I made at the shrine in 2152、 Like everyone in Shokertown, I headed over to the shrine at the New Year to pray and give thanks for the year before and hope for good things to come. The line last year wrapped around the corner from the temple entrance. The weather at the New Year was always sweltering. People were fanning themselves, but no one left the line.When I finally reached the shrine, I clapped my hands and prayed. I wished for what I know my mother would have wanted before she died: That I wo...
Stop-Starters
The waiting room was crowded. John shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He did not want to be there. But he had no choice. After his latest drunk driving arrest, the court had ordered him to see a counselor. And to stop drinking, of course. The former he could do, albeit with illwww.onedoor.cc grace. The latter, however, was beyond him. He could no more quit drinking than he could stop breathing. He’d tried everything – rehab, therapy, AA - nothing had worked. The problem, he supposed, was he simply had no desire to stop, despite the mounting consequences. So he kept his appointments with the counselor ...
HOLDING ON
“HOLDING ON”I couldn’t see that death had already eloped with my auntie’s body.* When my stepdad would come home at night, I’d usually be worried about him stepping into my room, while my mother slept. This evening, my fears fell like rain over an Indian summer sky. He headed straight for his bed where my mother remained watching the tv. Speaking in a hushed voice that you would only hear offered to babies, he said: “It’s going to be okay…Yes, on a bench, in Pimlico.” “By herself?” my mother asked. “Speaking to herself, alone.” He replied.By this point I had snuck myself up to the living room,...
Mick's first job
A friend of mine’s son got his dream job. He got it about a year ago and is still as happy as a dog with two tails. I’m proud of him by extension of his father. This is the story of his first day on the job. A sign flashed a yellow oval of Hain’s Bail Bonds over a glass door, not lighting anything other than the East Wareham fog that made the evening more oppressive. The corner botequim seemed to provide the most illumination with the vape shop's CBD sign a minor second. It looked like any rundown strip mall on the periphery of an already off-season Cape Cod. Micky smiled under his face mask l...