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“What about the night at Neal’s? I missed the doctor’s appointment.” Janie could see the confusion in his eyes. Honey you hadn’t been to Neal’s since before the funeral, or anywhere else for that matter. I did have a doctor’s appointment the day you became catatonic. She didn’t want to mention the final naked breakdown. “You wouldn’t talk or move, and that’s how you’ve been since. It’s been two months. I was so scar...

        Spring came with it’s intermittent summer like weather, mixed with thunderstorms and sometimes torrential rainfall. Jonah continued living sparsely, but was still taking generally good care of himself. There hadn’t been a full blown episode since the night the man was in his room. (Whom he was convinced was Malcolm Crowley). He knew it didn’t make any sense. Malcolm wasn’t dead, so how could he be haunting him? There had been...

  The school bus always let the kids out at the end of the road, or the beginning, depending on which way you were traveling. It was a dead end and the bus had nowhere to turn around. Some of the kids were older than Timmy Burgess, who was eight, some were younger. All together there were a half a dozen kids that lived on the street. There were a few houses close to the bus stop end of the street, but mostly there were mobile homes, or trailers as people called them back then. It was th...

Spectacle (River of Confusion) I The night turns pages in my mind. Everything that is beautiful is light. Soars--Eagles fly, and the world passes by in the twinkle in your eye. Tomorrow is always waiting for today to catch up. Greatness waits for no one. The lonely dog wale’s. The lonely boat sails. The cat chases it’s tail. Alive is the dawning of spring, and Lily’s in the field. Lily’s in her bed, with a beautiful head full of God, whom she just met in her dreams. An...

A person might imagine that the night before the most horrific day of their life, there would be some sense of foreboding, maybe a premonition, but Jonah sensed nothing as he sat staring out the window of his cramped home office. He was supposed to be writing his great American novel, but all he could think about was his wife announcing that she was pregnant. They had waited a long time to get pregnant. Jonah was thirty two and his wife Jane was twenty eight. They had met in high school, but ...