The Pool of Memory
Margaret stood at the edge of the community pool, her silver hair caught in the morning light like spun moonlight. At seventy-three, she'd earned every strand of that white, just a...
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Margaret stood at the edge of the community pool, her silver hair caught in the morning light like spun moonlight. At seventy-three, she'd earned every strand of that white, just a...
Margaret stood on her porch watching the summer storm roll across the valley, much as she had sixty years ago when she met Eleanor. That summer, the two of them had been twelve yea...
Margaret sat on her back porch, watching the ripples disturb the calm surface of her garden pond. The water had been her husband project twenty years ago—Henry's legacy, really. He...
Margaret sat on her porch swing, watching her granddaughter Emma splash in the old above-ground pool—the same one her own children had used thirty years ago. The morning sun caught...
Arthur Mitchell, eighty-two and counting, sat on his porch watching his grandson Matthew pitch baseballs into an old tire swing. The rhythmic thwack of ball against rubber took him...
The afternoon sun rests warm on my shoulders as I watch the papaya tree sway in the breeze. It took seven years to fruit—a lifetime for some, a blink for others. At eighty-two, I'v...
Eleanor sat on her porch swing, the old teddy bear resting on her lap. She'd had him since she was six, a gift from her father before he went to war. The bear's fur was matted in p...
Margaret's hair caught the sunlight like spun honey that summer we turned twelve. Every morning, she'd sit on the edge of the community pool while I braided those golden curls into...
Eleanor adjusted her sunglasses and settled onto the wrought-iron bench, her faded floral dress absorbing the July warmth. At seventy-eight, she'd become something of a spy — not t...
Eleanor watched from her kitchen window as the fox appeared at dusk, just as it had every autumn for twenty years. The same russet coat, the same careful steps between her fading m...
Margaret sat on her screened porch, the morning sun filtering through the palm fronds that swayed gently in the breeze. At eighty-two, she had learned that the best moments often c...
My granddaughter Emma calls me 'zombie grandpa,' though she says it with love. I suppose I do shuffle a bit in the mornings before my coffee kicks in, my joints stiff from seventy-...