Parker Owens
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It’s a tragic statement that Stefan is possibly safer on the streets than he would be at home, even with his father in the morgue. Thanks very much for your comments and for reading.
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This is an engaging chapter. But what way to change lives! I very much liked the euphemism embraced. Perfect.
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Stefan marshaled his strength and smarts to get out of the basement hell his father consigned him to. The bigger break is that the ogre is absent for the moment. What Stefan needs now is to rest, and figure what to do next.
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Stefan has been beaten and chained up before; but this violence seems like something new. He has had to learn resilience, and to live within the borders of himself to keep his sanity. His father has made it increasingly hard to do so. And now this. Thank you for braving these first dark chapters with Stefan.
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Stefan seems cut from a different cloth from his father. Mental illness, or other sorts of dysfunction can change a person. As for college education, I’m not sure that man ever finished. But Stefan doesn’t know that.
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Stefan has been at the mercy of his father for years now; unfortunately, the man is much larger and more brutal than the son. The uncle is even scarier, I agree. Stefan’s story is not unique in this country, which is so sad.
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@CincyKris I’m grateful you have undertaken to read this story. It can be hard to read, yet the greater tragedy is that there are kids like Stefan all over this continent.
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Currently, I’m reading a biography of LBJ in the series by Robert Caro.
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This was a fantastic story. I was fully engaged and could not stop reading. Thank you for writing and sharing it.
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This poem sings of joy and loss, reunion and remembering. Its kind makes me recall how important we can be to one another. Thank you.
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Embracing the gray is a wonderful way to put it. I like this.
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It’s a splendid story - sweet and satisfying as that cake! I hope there’s enough for second helpings.
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Chapter 4 Texas Two-Step
Parker Owens commented on Headstall's story chapter in Chapter 4 Texas Two-Step
Thanks for this tale. It’s fun, lovely and full of hope.- 88 comments
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How bittersweet the taste of this poem feels on my tongue as I read it. It may be like an aged wine, full of complexity and various flavors - yet the overarching melancholy puts me in a reflective mood, as anniversaries often do. This is beautifully done.
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Thank you for this. Another place in our pantheon of special people is empty. She still shines in our hearts.
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This is a beautiful story. Thank you for including it in this anthology.
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I'm frustrated I cannot choose more than one reaction icon. I love this because this poem radiates raw emotion. You make me feel as you felt in those moments, and also in this present instant. You drew me in and held me breathless as I read deeper and deeper into the poem. As others have said, this is enormously powerful. At the same time, I want to hit the sadness icon for the pain you endured, and hurt you continue to feel. I'd also use the anger icon because I'm angry someone wounded you so sorely.
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This is a beautiful companion planting. I’m particularly taken by the second quatrain, with Love’s warmth being the essential part of the partnership between circumstance and tender regard. Your turn in the next quatrain is all the more marked, as rain follows sun. As I said, it’s lovely. Thank you!
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The almost-new moon which cloaks most of itself is a monthly wonder to me, unfailing in its ability to make me stop and smile. The tallest of the tomato plants in the garden are well over 240 cm high. It’s like watching stars through the trees. Thanks very much for your thoughts, and for reading these.
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The elusive screech owl is one of my favorite birds. One hears them as dusk slides into night, warning the forest that they’re ready to hunt. As the daylight hours shrink, and school gets set to reopen, the hours to spend at harvest shrink to mere minutes. It’s too easy to work frantically, forgetting how beautiful it is in the darkening garden. Many thanks for your kind words, and for reading these!
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Your farm sounds idyllic. I’m very glad you thought the title was apt. Borderlands is a theme that seems to stick with me these days. I hope your occasional visitors bring you wonder and joy in equal measure.
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They’d be kinda spacey kids, then…
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My personal favorite would be to name them Euclid and Euler and have them speak only math.
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Picking beans until the screech owls call, and fingers fail to feel stalk from stem, I watch the stars emerge over the tomatoes changing sunflowers to mute shadows while the katydids chant it’s bedtime. ~ Phantom deer appear out of the mist, alert, tails a-twitch, ears cocked forward, dark eyes filled with caution and curiosity; four tawny forms set to turn as one toward the dark tangled woods an
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Why not Percy and Preston? Or, maybe Olaf and Oswald? I think you could raise a gazillion dollars for floating clinics just for the privilege of choosing the twins’ unusual names.
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