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writing to survive
unknotting the past and remaking the present one story at a timeInformation
| Url: | http://writingtosurvive.com |
| Author(s): | Jennifer Casey Trinkle |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | memoir, writing, forgiveness |
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| Ratings |  (19 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 44 Followers |
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Chiaroscuro
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Part I: The visitLook. I’m all out of words. They started drifting away from me this morning, when I woke up with the boy at six a.m. As the day continued – conversation with the visit...more |
2009-11-24
8:37, Saturday morning
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Tom cups his hands around the egg, his square palms and stubby fingers keeping it safe. He finds eggs fascinating, the weight they hold when they are fresh, uncooked, the way hard-boiling changes t...more |
2009-11-19
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The noises of destruction
| There was an oak tree just outside the back window. Brown leaves clung to it through the winter, unwilling to sever their ties until they were forced out by new growth. Some nights, when I was tire...more |
2009-11-16
Away from here
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We kept on digging that night, pushed through soil rich and dark, encountered earthworms as long as Joe’s middle finger. He had a trowel and I had a pick-axe, but most of the time we used our...more |
2009-11-14
And five days later cold
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It started with Maggie May's post on how one could possibly cope with losing a child. Or maybe it started before then, in my first grief at nine over the death of my grandmother, the grief that mor...more |
2009-11-05
Shoot him 'fore he run now
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J. had a freezer full of goose breasts riddled with shot. His family owned property on Broad Creek with a duck blind right against the water, where the menfolk, clad in camouflage, would sit on bri...more |
2009-10-30
Gorilla story
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The house teeters above you in a nimbus of red light. A pillar of cracked, uneven steps capped by burning jack-o-lanterns ends at the front door, where cackles and howls animate the night air. &ldq...more |
2009-10-28
Living proof at my fingertips
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It was one of those conversations that I'm tired of having, but I couldn't seem to stop myself.Mr. Trinkle and I were standing against the wall at the Fox Theater in Oakland, this over-the-top rest...more |
2009-10-24
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The low spark of a high-heeled boy
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Here was the scene: my four-year-old son wearing a pair of old high heels, a canary-yellow birthday party hat on his head, grasping a sword in either hand. It was another one of his many guises, a...more |
2009-10-21
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