They called him a savage because he knew nothing of quantum physics. Yet, he understood the being of the sun and the stars. He had never heard of a time machine, nor had he ridden the Iron Horse. Never mind, most of all, he loved nature and the Great Spirit, intimately. He was not afraid when he exhaled his final breath, because he grasped that he would fly once they placed his body on the funeral platform. *** He awoke i...

When my father died I danced a jig. My fellow workers in the warehouse laughed and questioned my joviality. Tact restrained me from telling them that the piece of shit that was my father had kicked the bucket but brown-bread he was. And good riddance. He was a horrible person. He was a bully and hypocrite. I grew tough enough to argue with him and eventually grew old enough to leave. The main reason, however, for my all-c...

In my school years, friends drifted in and out.  Fickle fate granted a lifelong few. Afterward, they were temporarily shipmates to a common port of call.  Unloaded, we embark to our different shores. I was blessed with a lifelong friend, Julie. We met in grade school. What first attracted us? I can’t remember. I was a protean, rural, Asian of dark complexion who snuck on a public-school bus. She was a pedigree, urbane, fr...

After Elliot, I snuggled back with my husband, spent more time in the office but by 1990, three years after Elliot, on turning forty, I rebelled against being a middle-aged woman.The children in college no longer needed my cinnamon rolls. I was their past tense mother, the mom who raised them. Now we were all "adults", my position was, the one who takes care of holidays and pays household bills. At the office, I could be...

Friday was coming to an end, work was dragging on, and I had regular boring plans to kill time until the party on Saturday night. I had decided to go to my Gym and get in a good workout. I went in and was immediately met by Joe. He said, “I have been looking for you and wanted to tell you that Harry had passed away. The funeral is on Saturday and wake is tonight.” I hadn't seen much of Joe and Harry lately, but we always...

I Summer and Mia Raines glanced at each other as they exited the large airplane and followed the crowd up a long hallway. Though neither of them had ever seen Wolf Carson, the man who would be waiting for them there, he had assured them that he’d seen both of their pictures and would be easily able to recognize them. As they neared the other end of the hall, Summer was feeling somewhat numb. She imagined she was still in...

I love being an intern. I really do. There is so much to learn and experience, and the perks are amazing. For the past two years, I had the pleasure (quite literally) of doing my internship at a funeral home in my hometown. My ambition is to be a funeral director and there is no better place to get hands on experience than working in funeral home. My boss and mentor is the Funeral Director. He is a 35 year old man of Japa...