Category: Stories & Essays
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The Make-Up Chair
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
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A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
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A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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Belongings
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Soon after a friend has passed away, a woman vacillates about keeping, and wearing some of the friend’s belongings.
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You’re Too Smart For That
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A woman in her 30s gives instructional advice about romantic relationships.
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Banging on Doors
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When the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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Waiting for Lena
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An 82-year-old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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It’s not what you think
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.