Content warnings: car colliding with bike (but no intense sound effects), partner violence as theme of a dance (no sound effects except music)
~A story by Anne Buzzelli~ After Persey gives into an angsty instinct, her last summer in high school is spent volunteering in a retirement home. She never thought she’d make a friend in that place, but Adam the octogenarian seemed ageless. An impossibility changed the way she looked at love and life and herself.
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Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
This is a stand-alone short story, unrelated to Love Makes Old New. A woman is an unintended participant in a tragedy. As she meanders along a fateful path, she finds a way to forgive herself.
This story was inspired by this article from BrainPickings.org: Paul Goodman on the Nine Kinds of Silence. The impact of words is quite clear, where they come from and what they might say about us… but what happens when we don’t use them at all?
13 days ago
What an incredibly well designed story. It’s amazing how art can mirror life so much… “I don’t know, but it wasn’t her fault”… outstanding!