Five Gold Rings_This City_The Duplicitous Gecko_Slippin' and Slidin'
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Five Gold Rings
I find it amusing that, in this moment, I am an American girl in an English-style tea house owned by a Japanese woman listening to a Colombian man explain to me about French hens. For Adán Vargas, liking birds is practically a personality trait, but I can see why people put up with it, because his other personality traits are so pleasant. Right now, though, it’s difficult to pay attention to anything other than the thin band of gold encircling my fourth finger. So while Adán gushes on, my hands are in my pockets, busy twisting and turning that seamless cage, and my mind is busy pondering its c...
This City
That’s the thing about this city. It used to be something better. Beyond gothic churches, concealed in thick ivy that crawled out of every crack and crevice. More than crumbling stone and cracked concrete ever so slowly succumbing to the hand of time. Camera at her side, Livy walked along Deception’s Path-the one so intensely laced with weeds and overgrowth. It certainly didn’t deserve to be called something quite so deceiving as a path. But deception’s touch fit like a glove, for the weeds attempted to lead you down misleadingly inviting trails that directed you in pointless circles. Of cours...
The Duplicitous Gecko
She was on the second-to-last question on the Made in Heaven dating app when the ad popped up. The thumbnail photo showed aquamarine water and a white sand beach. Her finger hovered, ready to click, no -- tap was what they called it on a phone. She’d never been a techie by any stretch of the imagination, but she got by.How was it that Google always knew what she was thinking, or what she most wanted, even when she didn’t say it out loud?No, surely she couldn’t afford a vacation. Not now. Not with all the uncertainty.She returned her attention to the real purpose of the free app and proceeded t...
Slippin' and Slidin'
Slippin’ and Slidin’Up in Michigan, there is a lot of lake effect winter.Larry no longer lives there. His career takes him and Janice to Cincinnati. They raise their three kids there, and the only reason this is mentioned is that as a rule, there is very little snow in a Cincinnati season, compared to Larry’s old stomping grounds in Southwest Michigan.At swww.onedoor.ccome point back at Michigan, it is time to clean out Larry’s folk’s house. Larry and Janice go up there from Cincy with a small U Haul, thinking not to take much back with them…only some antiques that Larry collected long ago. But when they ar...