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friendship – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. This Friend of Mine. I keep thinking of the little voice in the bottom of the answering machine. Or that’s what it seems like, as if my friend is at the bottom of a deep well and she has a phone and calls. She calls to say she can’t make it to the wedding. I don’t remember why. She leaves a message on my…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Edge of Humanity Magazine.
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adventure – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. Don’t go any further. She shouts into the wind. The man holds his hand against the baseball cap on his head and smiles, thrusts his other arm out into the wind as if he might make himself into a sail of some sort, lift up off the ground, fly away from her. He motions for her…. Why is what I wonder as I lay in bed. Why are we in a hostel in British Columbia? Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email.
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gardening – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. The Edge of Everything. I go to the woods, the forest, the place where trees grow. I go there to find the leaves of maple trees, the loam of their rotted bodies. I need to cart these to the garden. I’m trying. The trees are tightly spaced, and the leaves packed hard between the tangled tree roots. What should I do with…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers.
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canada – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. Why is what I wonder as I lay in bed. Why are we in a hostel in British Columbia? This was nowhere in the plan really. Canada had been a vague idea, somewhere along the realm of something we couldn’t possibly fit in. We had thrown the passports in the glove compartment just in case…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Poetry, Visual Art, Fiction, Essay and More.
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christmas – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. Mr Liem’s Pet Shop. Mr Liem’s Pet Shop By C.S. Austin (Guest Blogger) I think on Christmas one of the cousins dumped half a can of fish food into Fluffy’s tank by accident, Fluffy being a goldfish that my small brother brought home once, to the consternation of parents. The water was murky and the major landscape elements pagoda,…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers.
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forest service – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. One morning, not so long ago, my husband and I walked together. We followed a muddy wisp of a trail along the river to a beaver pond, or lake, as it’s called, Beaver Lake. The sun shone in our eyes and made the frost on the trees glint. We were chilled at first but the…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Hiking the Pa...
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creative nonfiction – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. I found the bear one fall day when clouds were slouching up the valley, pushed by an incoming storm. Crows flapped in the alders and before I could reason the oddness of so many the dog was off and tearing into whatever was there below the trees. I shouldn’t say I found the bear. I’d…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Blog at WordPress.com. Hiking the Pacific Nort...
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fiction – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. Don’t go any further. She shouts into the wind. The man holds his hand against the baseball cap on his head and smiles, thrusts his other arm out into the wind as if he might make himself into a sail of some sort, lift up off the ground, fly away from her. He motions for her…. This Friend of Mine. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Sweet: A Literary Confection.
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Entering the Caldera – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. Posted by Life Along The River. June 2, 2015. March 24, 2016. The buffaloes arrive just after the fa. When they first decided to come here they showed their son pictures and books of. The buffalo nearest her. Why did she not see the risks? As if there would be no consequence for gazing direct into the workings of the planet? Why would they, any of them, think they could ever come away unscathed? 6 Comments Add yours. June 5, 2015 at 4:35 pm. Life Along The River. I did fiction since...
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campfires – Life Along The River
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Life Along The River. One summer evening, after the sailboat is anchored and the campfire lit, they watch the beam from the lighthouse at the end of the pier. They sit on the beach near the fire, the girl and her siblings, all five of them and her mother with curled brown hair and the father too. They put marshmallows and…. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Edge of Humanity Magazine. Teri Carter's Library. Peeling Back the Bark. Follow Blog via Email. Join 1,562 other followers. Sweet: A Literary Confection.