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  1. Parker Owens

    Chapter 1

    Parker Owens commented on ChromedOutCortex's story chapter in Chapter 1

    This evokes plenty of remembered memories and anxiety. I wish there had been a man like Chris for me.
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    How could I not delight in these? Thank you!
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    I’m glad I’m not the only one to whom that minor calamity has happened. Thank you so much for reading this set, and for your comments.
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    Definitely messy and not the chocolate-heart valentine one might expect. But there’s a blueberry’s worth of hope, too. Thanks for your very kind words!
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    You’re very welcome. I hope you can relate to both the highs and the lows in these. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment.
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    Thank you very much for reading this set of skyscrapers. I appreciate your taking the time to comment.
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    Thank you for reading. I appreciate your thoughts.
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    Thank you for reading!
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    One of the few times a parking lot mishap resulted in something other than muttered curses. Thanks for reading and for your comment!
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    Skyscraper Love Story The phone rang, singing its little tune and, all unthinking, I answered it, only to hear the most unexpected music; not the drone of some unseen salesman, but the sweet melody of your voice. Misgiving ran throughout my old frame as I listened to explanations, convoluted situational conditions, and much-too-profuse apologies to break our appointment yet again. You never utter
  11. Parker Owens

    Chapter 7

    Parker Owens commented on Albert1434's story chapter in Chapter 7

    I enjoyed these first their imagery and for putting me in their scenes.
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    There is so much that is unknown and unknowable to us now, I agree. My student’s family was bitterly split in a divorce. They didn’t talk to one another, and so I really do wonder if anyone in his so-called family remembers him now. Thanks for your thoughts, and for reading.
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    Thank you, tim. Thank you for joining me in remembering the young man I knew early in my teaching. Through this poem, I’m able to grieve his departure from life. His presence remains in my memory, still young, still able to face the world. Life is indeed relentless.
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    An Old Story

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in An Old Story

    I fear many lives will be broken by the insanities of our times before we can begin to heal again.
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    Thank you for your response to this set. That it evoked memories means a lot to me, even though they were sad-colored ones. I can’t help thinking about my former student to wonder what I might have said or done better, if only I had known. I hope your nests find new occupants this spring!
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    This particular student comes back to my mind, over and over. He is definitely one for whom I wonder what if? He had no safe nest, apparently - not at school, not at home, and not after he graduated, either. I feel I failed him in that. Thank you very much for your thoughtful response.
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    Still Remembered The hummingbirds pause on a barren ash tree branch, only to forget. ~ ~ ~ A few minutes ago I stood staring at a wooden coathanger, of all things. On it, in faded magic marker, is written the name of a student I once taught, decades ago. I still remember him: thin faced, sharp featured, blond and shorter than his peers; a scrapper, as one of his classmates called him. The
  18. Parker Owens

    Forty-Nine

    Parker Owens commented on Drew Payne's story chapter in Forty-Nine

    Great A-level marks, and burgeoning independence; Liam seems to go from strength to strength. Yet we know what’s ahead: a cheerless room in a rundown flophouse.
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    Some outcomes seem inevitable after they’ve happened; it’s the Daves of this world who spend themselves in hope who are heroes.
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    So sad, yet the determination and the premonition were strong
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    Chapter 1

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Chapter 1

    I also wondered whether Loy would be as well off as some thought. He’s sufficiently ingenious to figure out how to get an identity, but he and Kee need to survive a strange world which (in our own hindsight) seems increasingly hostile. Thanks very much for your very encouraging comments. World creation in this kind of way isn’t entirely easy for me. So much has changed in the seven years since this story was written!
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    Chapter 5

    Parker Owens commented on Albert1434's story chapter in Chapter 5

    I enjoyed these couplet form poems very much. Thank you for sharing them.
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    I am rapt in your elegaic poem to that barn and that place and your time in it. You bring us to warm, dappled shadows in a hay mow, and all the boyhood adventure and delight to be found in it. This poem is a ray of sunlight on a cold, grey afternoon.
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    Just saw this. That’s a very interesting word to consider.
  25. Parker Owens

    Chapter 1

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Chapter 1

    I feel awful that I somehow missed responding to your lovely and very kind comment on this story. I’m very glad that Robert and Ed’s tale resonated in some way with your own experience. I hope your new year brings you greater joy and peace. Thanks again.
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