What I Learned As A Kid by Justin Gar This was a creative writing assignemnt for my English 121 class [638 words]
The Sacred Space by Vishal Arora - [2,726 words]
Moonlit Flowers by Iron Dave A more traditional vampire tale. [5,650 words]
Daughter Drowned. by Terry Collett - [928 words]
When The Wind Blows: Part 2 by Lost Pieces - [102 words]
When Cold Wind Blows by Lost Pieces When Janet discovers what's inside.... [64 words]
The National Historic Museum. by National Historic Museum It is known that the national historic museum in brownsville,texas is haunted. [72 words]
Port In A Storm. by Terry Collett - [555 words]
Not Just Yet. by Terry Collett - [858 words]
Me Myself And...... Laura? by Lost Pieces A battle with multiple personalities [63 words]
Just Smiling by Terry Collett - [638 words]
Jericho Pilsbury by Paul B Kramer Jericho, RELAX! [1,744 words]
Its Self Explainatory by Lost Pieces Its self explainatory. Its a short biography of me. [65 words]
I Want Them To See My Pain by Lost Pieces About how you cannot always be who you want. That most things are chosen for you. (i... [112 words]
Gobbledygook by Hasan Zahid This is a short story written by me (Hasan Zahid) in English. It’s a story about a girl named Nats... [1,390 words]
Final Summer. by Terry Collett - [705 words]
Cause And Effect (Affect?) by Lost Pieces A story about feeling like you dont know which way to go and giving up. [97 words]
Woodrow's Return. by Terry Collett - [1,056 words]
Robin by Geetika Aswal Its a story about a Kid, Who is going through a troubled teen time. With all the Luxuries available to hi... [2,465 words]
No Remorse. by Terry Collett - [937 words]
Last Tango. by Terry Collett - [863 words]
The Legend Of Snake Two-Guns by Bandit O'hara After a terrible mistake he made as a sheriff of a small town, the hero turns his ... [5,181 words]
Waiting For Marcel. by Terry Collett - [919 words]
Time Stands Still by Jinndal Davis Living forever... [550 words]
The Beauty Horse by Spencer A Morin It's about a remarkable horse who is dying and needs a cure, but the cure is not known of yet. [592 words]
Obsidian by Veraelaine Louch I thought the last thing I needed, in a home with 2 kids and a wild husband, was a dog. I was wrong [544 words]
Daughter: A Brett Mccarley Locomotive Engineer Story by Shelley J Alongi A wedding cake, a ring, and a daughter. [1,884 words]
Backyard Blues. by Terry Collett - [732 words]
The Monkey's View. by Spencer A Morin It is about a monkey who sits on the middle computer in a 4th grade classroom. [188 words]
Waiting & Serving. by Terry Collett - [673 words]
Tick Tock Is It Truly My Sin? by Jinndal Davis Questions, without answers. Placing blame on someone else. [457 words]
The Name Game by Peter Rego A short story about coping with life and death. [3,756 words]
The Lullabye Tree by Jinndal Davis A comforting tree, come to it and rest. It takes the weary, the depressed, the sad and lonel... [2,816 words]
The Dutiful Daughter by Jinndal Davis The final breath of a mother, the final thought of a daughter. [478 words]
Stockton Heights : Da Introduction by Nick B this is the first installment of my urban teen drama short story series abou... [199 words]
Saturday Musings: A Brett Mccarley Locomotive Engineer Story by Shelley J Alongi A little bit of truth and a whole lot of fiction. ... [1,781 words]
Mullet Girl by Wetweathersewage This is the origin of Mullet Girl [483 words]
Maggie's Voices. by Terry Collett - [595 words]
Her Mother Said by Terry Collett - [903 words]
Field Of Rubies by Christine E Schulze Presenting "Field of Rubies" from Schulze's Bloodmaiden: Zale. Gauthier. Varden. These three d... [8,482 words]
Father Grant Me This One Thing by Jinndal Davis Walking the Earth looking for the meek and the mild, that is not what was found.... [384 words]
Cramps & Prayers by Terry Collett - [566 words]
Because Of Love.( Story) by Terry Collett - [724 words]
Awaiting Lunch. by Terry Collett - [727 words]
The Worst Story Ever by Spencer A Morin Borin' [10 words]
Phils' Book Of Things by Scott Oglesby Three very short stories taken from the book "Phils' Book of Things" [762 words]
Letter To Andre. by Terry Collett - [907 words]
Cash Bronson Man Stories: Cunty Sausage by Wetweathersewage Cash Bronson is a man who does manly stuff. [464 words]
Birthday Wishes: A Brett Mccarley Locomotive Engineer Story by Shelley J Alongi Getting ready for a big day. [2,016 words]
Before Jacob's Funeral.
An April In Paris. by Terry Collett - [953 words]
Afternoon Nap: A Brett Mccarley Locomotive Engineer Story by Shelley J Alongi Prenuptial wonderings. [2,263 words]
Date Help by Wetweathersewage - [233 words]
Uh Oh! by Jackson about a boy watching his only friend get murdered [1,782 words]
The Twist Part 1 by Spencer A Morin It is the first not ther last true fairy tale story. ( Not needed to believe) [447 words]
Quiet Love: A Brett Mccarley Locomotive Engineer Story by Shelley J Alongi Brett and Laurie and the beginning of a marriage. [4,377 words]
Nature Walkers by Spencer A Morin This a fun and interesting tale of a changing group of children. [312 words]
Moment Of Your Time. by Terry Collett - [707 words]
Foot - Bomb by Spencer A Morin This is about the biggest football game ever. Then suddenly ... [168 words]
Epidemic By Numbers by Budha So, on the tenth evening of their joint collapse in their respective beds , just as Mumma a... [1,988 words]
Dasher by Grace E And Krysten M Newhouse And Baker Its a horse that never got broke to ride [92 words]
Summertime Is Always Warm by Mercedes Lauren Adams Story of the highs and lows of life. What people lose in their attempts to create pea... [597 words]
Love & Marriage. by Terry Collett - [571 words]
What's The Problem Now? by Rube - [529 words]
The Hotel Window by Jasmine Marie A woman ponders the reason behind a failed relationship. [1,061 words]
The Entrance Exam by Vishal Arora THE STORY "ENTRANCE EXAM" PORTRAYS THE DILEMMA NOW A DAYS STUDENT FACE IN THIS COMPETITIVE WO... [1,436 words]
The Coffee Shop by Robin D A short short story that takes place in a coffee shop. [727 words]
Seduction. by Terry Collett - [885 words]
Promises Promises. by Terry Collett - [603 words]
After Lauds. by Terry Collett - [785 words]
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TITLE (EDIT)
Before Jacob's Funeral. |
DESCRIPTION
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[685 words] |
AUTHOR
Terry Collett |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
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[September 2010] |
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (801)
911 Blues. (Poetry) - [184 words]
A Child's Place. (Short Stories) - [1,003 words]
A Dull Grey Sky (Poetry) - [267 words]
A Failed History. (Poetry) - [182 words]
A Fine Art. (Poetry) - [274 words]
A Forbidden Love. (Short Stories) - [2,321 words]
A Life Of Stripping Bare. (Poetry) - [190 words]
A Love Carved. (Poetry) - [124 words]
A Mysterious Conception. (Short Stories) - [2,510 words]
A New Paris. (Poetry) - [264 words]
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square. (Short Stories) - [2,636 words]
A Sorrow Felt. (Poetry) - [204 words]
A Thousand Dreams. (Poetry) - [86 words]
A Woman Dying. (Poetry) - [629 words]
A Woman's Fate. (Poetry) - [182 words]
Abigail Abthing Drew Breath Like Water. (Poetry) - [96 words]
Abigail's Loss. (Poetry) - [66 words]
Aborted Babe. (Poetry) - [136 words]
About Women. (Poetry) - [226 words]
Abraham’S Final Words. (Poetry) - [92 words]
Abscence. (Poetry) - [140 words]
Advent 1968 (Short Stories) - [618 words]
After Grandfather. (Poetry) - [308 words]
After Kill. (Poetry) - [189 words]
After Lauds. (Short Stories) - [785 words]
After Mass. (Short Stories) - [546 words]
After Matins. (Short Stories) - [624 words]
After Monsieur Melon. (Poetry) - [256 words]
After Sex And Love What Then. (Short Stories) - [692 words] [Gay & Lesbian]
After The Guinness. (Poetry) - [102 words]
After The Men. (Poetry) - [118 words]
After The Photo. (Poetry) - [179 words]
Afternoon Tea 1906. (Short Stories) - [637 words]
Aged But All Too Late. (Poetry) - [107 words]
Aileen Listens. (Poetry) - [263 words]
Ajanta's Dream. (Poetry) - [300 words]
Akoto Dreams. (Poetry) - [156 words]
Alice Awyer Drowned Her Seventh Child. (Poetry) - [63 words]
Alice In Amsterdam. (Poetry) - [304 words]
Alice's Wonderland. (Poetry) - [209 words]
All And All In The Dying Dream. (Poetry) - [83 words]
All By Myself (Plays) - [8,373 words]
All Days. (Poetry) - [73 words]
All In His Mind. (Poetry) - [165 words]
All In The Cards. (Poetry) - [173 words]
All She Wanted. (Poetry) - [162 words]
All Sin. (Poetry) - [127 words]
All There Was. (Poetry) - [20 words]
All Things Aside. (Poetry) - [147 words]
Almost Tempted. (Poetry) - [282 words]
Always Felt. (Poetry) - [166 words]
Always On The Edge. (Poetry) - [109 words]
Always Seeing Him. (Poetry) - [257 words]
Always That. (Poetry) - [135 words]
Always Too Much. (Poetry) - [67 words]
Amazing Grace. (Short Stories) - [2,753 words]
An Apple A Day (Poem) (Poetry) - [215 words]
An April In Paris. (Short Stories) - [953 words]
An Art Of Killing. (Short Stories) - [606 words]
An Asylum Dawn (Short Stories) - [535 words]
An Awareness Of Being. (Poetry) - [236 words]
An End To The Affair. (Poetry) - [127 words]
An Evening Spreadout Against A Sky. Act One Of Two. (Plays) - [6,210 words] [Drama]
An Evening With Annie. (Short Stories) - [1,076 words]
Andre Beer’S Lament. (Poetry) - [62 words]
Anna & Babi Yar. (Poetry) - [71 words]
Anny Would Have Been There. (Poetry) - [119 words]
Anorexic. (Poetry) - [136 words]
Another Dawn. (Poetry) - [187 words]
Apricot Sensation. (Poetry) - [90 words]
As A Child. (Poetry) - [182 words]
As An Encore. (Poetry) - [177 words]
As He Watches. (Poetry) - [212 words]
As I Was Saying. (Plays) - [15,758 words]
As Other Lovers Do. (Poetry) - [345 words]
As Was Then. (Poetry) - [203 words]
Asylum Blues. (Short Stories) - [578 words] [Gay & Lesbian]
Asylum Love. (Short Stories) - [720 words]
Asylum Museum. (Poetry) - [204 words]
Asylum Of Sexlessness. (Poetry) - [280 words]
At Kennedy's. (Poetry) - [172 words]
Auntie's List. (Poetry) - [194 words]
Awaiting Lunch. (Short Stories) - [727 words]
Awaiting Wolves. (Poetry) - [69 words]
Baby Cry. (Poetry) - [148 words]
Baby In Thoughts. (Poetry) - [133 words]
Baby Loss Blues. (Poetry) - [179 words]
Baby Nights (Poetry) - [239 words]
Back Again. (Poetry) - [195 words]
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Bad Joke. (Poetry) - [71 words]
Bag Lady. (Poetry) - [225 words]
Bass Brinson And His Jesus (Poetry) - [94 words]
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Be With Me My Settled Love, (Poetry) - [92 words]
Beautiful Freak (Poetry) - [115 words]
Because Of Love.( Story) (Short Stories) - [724 words]
Because What Happened There. (Poetry) - [179 words]
Before Mass. (Short Stories) - [607 words]
Began With That Kiss.. (Poetry) - [184 words]
Behind Tall Walls. (Poetry) - [230 words]
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Betray. (Short Stories) - [2,378 words]
Better Times. (Poetry) - [76 words]
Between Full Moons. (Poetry) - [175 words]
Beyond That. (Poetry) - [82 words]
Beyond The Shadows. (Poetry) - [187 words]
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Bill's Phone Calls. (Poetry) - [175 words]
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Black Ops. (Poetry) - [219 words]
Bloody Sunday. (Poetry) - [234 words]
Bo Lee & Now. (Poetry) - [59 words]
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Brainwash (Poetry) - [213 words]
Bramshaw & Brassieres. (Poetry) - [192 words]
Branna's Babe. (Poetry) - [111 words]
Brave New World (Poetry) - [196 words]
Bright & Beautiful (Poetry) - [134 words]
Bronagh's Bath. (Poetry) - [342 words]
Bronwen Was Loved. (Poetry) - [135 words]
Bronx 1933 (Poetry) - [302 words]
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Bukowski Comes. (Poetry) - [124 words]
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Even In Sleep (Poetry) - [99 words]
Even Now, You Listen. (Poetry) - [201 words]
Even Though. (Poetry) - [115 words]
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Faded Tattoo. (Poetry) - [273 words]
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Father Dying. (Poetry) - [187 words]
Father Waits. (Poetry) - [202 words]
Father Was Enough. (Poetry) - [254 words]
Father Writes. (Poetry) - [204 words]
Father's Study. (Poetry) - [284 words]
Favourite Place. (Poetry) - [172 words]
Fay's First Kiss. (Poetry) - [78 words]
Feeding Fish. (Poetry) - [269 words]
Feel Of Freedom. (Poetry) - [223 words]
Feigning Sleep. (Poetry) - [277 words]
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Finger Licking Girl. (Poetry) - [94 words]
Finn Danced The Jig. (Poetry) - [151 words]
Finn's Hangover. (Poetry) - [111 words]
Finn's New Woman. (Poetry) - [306 words]
First Smoke. (Poetry) - [128 words]
Fishing At Lowell Lake. (Poetry) - [143 words]
Fixation. (Poetry) - [65 words]
Following Brody. (Poetry) - [242 words]
For The Poem. (Poetry) - [88 words]
Forever Is Where Nowhere Near. (Poetry) - [63 words]
Frankie's Freakshow. (Poetry) - [168 words]
Franz & Kamila. (Poetry) - [276 words]
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French Lessons. (Poetry) - [92 words]
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Gentle Reminder. (Poetry) - [247 words]
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Ghost Town. (Poetry) - [116 words]
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Girl At A Bar. (Poetry) - [229 words]
Girl In The City. (Poetry) - [190 words]
Go My Sweet Child. (Poetry) - [84 words]
God Is Everywhere. (Poetry) - [143 words]
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Good Times Bad Times. (Poetry) - [128 words]
Gossip.(Poem) (Poetry) - [203 words]
Granddaddy 1953 (Poetry) - [137 words]
Grandfather Said. (Poetry) - [41 words]
Grandma's Funeral. (Poetry) - [192 words]
Grandmother 1917. (Poetry) - [146 words]
Grandmother's Corset. (Poetry) - [212 words]
Gran's Photograph. (Poetry) - [276 words]
Gran's Place. (Poetry) - [372 words]
Graveside Musing. (Poetry) - [213 words]
Great Aunt Belle. (Poetry) - [195 words]
Great Gods, Miis Pretty Sighs. (Poetry) - [62 words]
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Hard Stare. (Poetry) - [202 words]
Hate Days. (Poetry) - [234 words]
Hazel Willow. (Short Stories) - [2,492 words]
He Comes Miss Pretty Thinks. (Poetry) - [68 words]
He Has Chosen. (Poetry) - [126 words]
He Lost At Sea. (Poetry) - [135 words]
He Promised So Much. (Poetry) - [168 words]
He Would Know Nothing, (Poetry) - [173 words]
Helen And Rosalind. (Short Stories) - [2,558 words]
Hellcat. (Poetry) - [157 words]
Henry In Paris. (Poetry) - [166 words]
Henry Looks (Poetry) - [161 words]
Henry's Chilly Nights. (Poetry) - [399 words]
Henry's Insomnia (Poetry) - [321 words]
Henry's Mother. (Poetry) - [196 words]
Her In The Room Upstairs. (Plays) - [13,745 words]
Her Lost Love. (Poetry) - [97 words]
Her Mother Said (Short Stories) - [903 words]
Here Is But All Dreams Love. (Poetry) - [62 words]
Hers Was The First (Poetry) - [157 words]
He's Getting Out. (Novels) - [250 words]
He's Not The Same. (Poetry) - [209 words]
Hesta At The Hotel Cuba. (Poetry) - [286 words]
His Last Letter. (Poetry) - [184 words]
His Letter. (Poetry) - [144 words]
His Letters. (Poetry) - [223 words]
His Magic Has Untouched. (Poetry) - [118 words]
His Mother Said. (Poetry) - [107 words]
His Wife Said. (Poetry) - [284 words]
Hold Fast Miss Pretty Thinks. (Poetry) - [76 words]
Holocaust Park. (Poetry) - [162 words]
Home Again. (Short Stories) - [1,090 words]
Hotel Jerk. (Poetry) - [127 words]
How To Sit. (Poetry) - [158 words]
Hush Hush Hits. (Poetry) - [140 words]
I Am The Dead Man’S Keeper. (Poetry) - [61 words]
I Have Questioned All The Nightly Dreams. (Poetry) - [106 words]
I.D.To Auschwitz (Poetry) - [23 words]
If Only It Would. (Poetry) - [103 words]
If You Have My Heart. (Poetry) - [98 words]
If You Think. (Poetry) - [217 words]
Illusions Of Love. (Poetry) - [112 words]
Image Is Everything. (Poetry) - [136 words]
Imagining Baby (Poetry) - [107 words]
In Bed With Balzac. (Poetry) - [159 words]
In Father's Room. (Poetry) - [197 words]
In Your Sleep. (Poetry) - [315 words]
Inside Caitlin. (Short Stories) - [699 words]
Inside Her Head. (Poetry) - [175 words]
Is That So. (Poetry) - [149 words]
It All Began. (Poetry) - [87 words]
It Happens.(Poem) (Poetry) - [180 words]
It Was No Joke. (Poetry) - [101 words]
It's All There. (Poetry) - [264 words]
Ivy Inchness. (Short Stories) - [2,732 words]
Jackshite Days. (Poetry) - [179 words]
Jenny Jenny. (Short Stories) - [2,109 words]
Jerusalem 1948 (Poetry) - [129 words]
Jogged Memory. (Poetry) - [122 words]
Josephine Says. (Poetry) - [200 words]
Judith. (Short Stories) - [2,721 words]
Just Because Mother. (Poetry) - [253 words]
Just For Laughs. (Poetry) - [69 words]
Just Smiling (Short Stories) - [638 words]
Just So. (Short Stories) - [988 words]
Kafka Speaks Sense. (Poetry) - [224 words]
Keep Up Child. (Poetry) - [246 words]
Kennedy's Dead. (Poetry) - [156 words]
Kids Stuff Now. (Poetry) - [103 words]
Killing Hawk (Poetry) - [89 words]
Kind Words To Cold Hearts. (Poetry) - [87 words]
Kiss On Cheek Or Brow. (Poetry) - [92 words]
Lake Michigan 1920 (Poetry) - [147 words]
L'amour Est Mort. (Poetry) - [105 words]
Last Rites. (Poetry) - [184 words]
Last Tango. (Short Stories) - [863 words]
Last Visitation To Coney Island. (Poetry) - [198 words]
Late Home. (Poetry) - [263 words]
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Letter To Andre. (Short Stories) - [907 words]
Like Her Mother (Poetry) - [60 words]
Likewise To You. (Poetry) - [257 words]
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Little Left. (Poetry) - [54 words]
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Living's What We Do. (Poetry) - [267 words]
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Mad Marie. (Poetry) - [228 words]
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Make A Wish. (Poetry) - [88 words]
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Many A True Word. (Poetry) - [143 words]
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Memories Before Matins. (Short Stories) - [602 words]
Memory Of Thighs. (Poetry) - [69 words]
Men Will Watch Paint Dry. (Poetry) - [141 words]
Millie's Mother (Poetry) - [216 words]
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Miss Pretty And The Dim Night. (Poetry) - [69 words]
Missy's 1966. (Poetry) - [250 words]
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Morning Has Broken. (Poetry) - [90 words]
Morning Mourning. (Poetry) - [190 words]
Mother Aged Quickly. (Poetry) - [116 words]
Mother And Child 1904. (Short Stories) - [679 words]
Mother Comes. (Poetry) - [186 words]
Mother & Dead Child. (Poetry) - [62 words]
Mother Left. (Poetry) - [137 words]
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Mother Wanted. (Poetry) - [262 words]
Mother Was A Drag. (Poetry) - [200 words]
Mother's Shadow. (Poetry) - [199 words]
Mr Engels. (Poetry) - [267 words]
Mrs Lotski's Love. (Poetry) - [230 words]
Mrs Murphy's Third Child. (Poetry) - [117 words]
Mrs Ushmore's Pussy. (Poetry) - [401 words]
Mulligan. (Poetry) - [191 words]
Musing On An Older Lover (Poetry) - [218 words]
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Nadine's Wait. (Poetry) - [155 words]
Nadya Used To. (Poetry) - [213 words]
Nature Of Greif. (Poetry) - [120 words]
Needs Must. (Poetry) - [236 words]
Never Forgotten First Love. (Poetry) - [158 words]
New Ballgame. (Poetry) - [141 words]
New Jersey 1926 (Poetry) - [168 words]
New Orleans 1922. (Poetry) - [267 words]
New York 1943. (Poetry) - [243 words]
Night Before. (Poetry) - [281 words]
Nights & Days Since Baby's Death. (Poetry) - [129 words]
No Confession. (Poetry) - [327 words]
No Great Escape. (Poetry) - [188 words]
No Letter Of Love. (Poetry) - [200 words]
No Moving On. (Poetry) - [155 words]
No One Bothered. (Poetry) - [179 words]
No Pitter Patter (Poetry) - [195 words]
No Possibility. (Poetry) - [203 words]
No Remorse. (Short Stories) - [937 words]
No War Is Over. (Poetry) - [137 words]
Not Allow That. (Poetry) - [171 words]
Not At All. (Short Stories) - [2,425 words]
Not Camera Shy. (Poetry) - [150 words]
Not From The Bronx. (Poetry) - [159 words]
Not Her Kind. (Poetry) - [220 words]
Not Herself. (Poetry) - [160 words]
Not His Usual Kind. (Poetry) - [137 words]
Not In Your Wildest Dreams. (Poetry) - [229 words]
Not Just Distance. (Poetry) - [159 words]
Not Just Yet. (Short Stories) - [858 words]
Not Of Flowers. (Poetry) - [90 words]
Not One Ave. (Poetry) - [119 words]
Not One Of Those. (Poetry) - [184 words]
Not The Player. (Poetry) - [86 words]
Nothing Of Him. (Poetry) - [146 words]
Nothing Seems To Fit. (Poetry) - [215 words]
Nothing Ventured (Poetry) - [152 words]
Notion Of Not Being. (Poetry) - [334 words]
November Walk. (Poetry) - [162 words]
Now And Then.(Poem) (Poetry) - [170 words]
Nuit Et Jour. (Poetry) - [63 words]
Nun Watching. (Poetry) - [165 words]
Nun's Golgotha. (Poetry) - [90 words]
O'brien's Rant. (Poetry) - [92 words]
Ocd Blues. (Poetry) - [177 words]
Office Blues (Poetry) - [159 words]
Office Promotion. (Poetry) - [129 words]
Often Times. (Poetry) - [184 words]
Old Pictures In Florence. (Short Stories) - [2,631 words]
On Harlow. (Poetry) - [132 words]
On Miss Schlipnar. (Poetry) - [187 words]
On Sundays. (Poetry) - [235 words]
On The Way To Donovan's. (Poetry) - [205 words]
On Waking One Morning. (Poetry) - [281 words]
One Of Hers. (Poetry) - [183 words]
Only It Wasn't. (Poetry) - [80 words]
Only See So Far. (Poetry) - [280 words]
Oregon 1947 (Poetry) - [267 words]
Painted Lady. (Poetry) - [167 words]
Pandemonium At The Asylum. (Poetry) - [99 words]
Paris 1926. (Poetry) - [300 words]
Paris 1933. (Poetry) - [272 words]
Park Bench Blues. (Poetry) - [141 words]
Passions Of Paris. (Short Stories) - [535 words]
Peggy Sue. (Short Stories) - [2,180 words]
Penny For Them. (Poetry) - [161 words]
Pennysylvania 1948. (Poetry) - [208 words]
Pensive Girl. (Poetry) - [204 words]
Pentecost 1972. (Short Stories) - [596 words]
Peter's Prayer. (Poetry) - [83 words]
Photo Take. (Poetry) - [170 words]
Pipe Me To Pastures Still (Short Stories) - [2,411 words]
Port In A Storm. (Short Stories) - [555 words]
Postcard (Poetry) - [130 words]
Postcard Pain. (Poetry) - [249 words]
Potomac Beach 1920. (Poetry) - [262 words]
Pretending To Sleep. (Short Stories) - [1,050 words]
Prior To Lauds. (Short Stories) - [717 words]
Promises Promises. (Short Stories) - [603 words]
Puberty. (Short Stories) - [5,052 words]
Pure & Simple. (Poetry) - [129 words]
Purple Rages. (Poetry) - [98 words]
Rain Date. (Poetry) - [288 words]
Rajputana 1932 (Poetry) - [157 words]
Recollection After Dinner. (Poetry) - [176 words]
Red Scarf. (Poetry) - [270 words]
Reflections. (Poem) (Poetry) - [236 words]
Rehearsing Dying. (Poetry) - [230 words]
Rejected By Renoir. (Poetry) - [358 words]
Rejected Train. (Poetry) - [298 words]
Remember That Day. (Poetry) - [248 words]
Remembering Jean (Poetry) - [94 words]
Remembering Miss Fleavage. (Poetry) - [141 words]
Remembering Ruby. (Poetry) - [231 words]
Remembering Schutt's Farm. (Poetry) - [194 words]
Remember? (Poem) (Poetry) - [84 words]
Remembers Father. (Poetry) - [278 words]
Remembers Him. (Poetry) - [346 words]
Risque 1910. (Poetry) - [165 words]
Rock Baby 1973. (Short Stories) - [574 words]
Rockabye Baby. (Plays) - [11,278 words]
Rome 1993. (Poetry) - [213 words]
Room And A View. (Poetry) - [268 words]
Room Of Your Own. (Poetry) - [307 words]
Rose By Any Other Name. (Short Stories) - [2,104 words]
Rose Remembers. (Short Stories) - [607 words]
Rosie Remembers. (Poetry) - [245 words]
Rough Sex. (Poetry) - [172 words]
Run A Bath. (Poetry) - [234 words]
Ryan & Marilyn. (Poetry) - [67 words]
Said Doyle (Poetry) - [279 words]
Said Flint. (Poetry) - [112 words]
Sally & Sex. (Poetry) - [207 words]
San Diego 1943. (Poetry) - [153 words]
Sandwiched Hurt. (Poetry) - [192 words]
Santa Monica Beach 1905. (Poetry) - [227 words]
Seamus & Finn. (Poetry) - [177 words]
Secret Hidden (Poetry) - [292 words]
Sed Libera Nos A Malo. (Short Stories) - [2,358 words]
Seduction. (Short Stories) - [885 words]
Seek & Find. (Poetry) - [108 words]
Seeking An Answer. (Poetry) - [150 words]
Seeking Mother's Womb. (Short Stories) - [624 words]
Seen Not Heard. (Poetry) - [214 words]
Serving. (Short Stories) - [2,706 words]
Sex As Snow. (Poetry) - [70 words]
Sex Before 1963. (Poetry) - [127 words]
Sex In The Park. (Poetry) - [209 words]
Sex Letters. (Poetry) - [102 words]
Sex & Phone Calls. (Poetry) - [98 words]
Sex Was Sex. (Poetry) - [77 words]
Sexy Garment Store. (Poetry) - [208 words]
Shadows On Walls. (Poetry) - [143 words]
Shalom At Sheepshead Bay. (Poetry) - [233 words]
She Always. (Poetry) - [144 words]
She Had Become. (Poetry) - [262 words]
She Knew All This. (Poetry) - [152 words]
She Knows He Will. (Poetry) - [121 words]
She Laughed A Lot. (Poetry) - [339 words]
She Only Wanted. (Poetry) - [173 words]
She Resisted. (Poetry) - [169 words]
She Smiled. (Poetry) - [75 words]
She Would Not. (Poetry) - [93 words]
She'd Try. (Poetry) - [94 words]
Silence Of Rooms. (Poetry) - [173 words]
Silent Treatment. (Short Stories) - [595 words]
Simone's Night Out. (Poetry) - [143 words]
Sinead & Finn. (Poetry) - [76 words]
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Sister Augustine's Visitor. (Short Stories) - [2,544 words]
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Sit Down Boy. (Poetry) - [249 words]
Sit & Wait. (Poetry) - [211 words]
Slave Pearl (Poetry) - [244 words]
Sleep After Sex. (Poetry) - [153 words]
Sleep & Grief. (Poetry) - [145 words]
Sleep To Dream. (Poetry) - [100 words]
Smokescreen. (Poetry) - [244 words]
Snap Shot. (Poetry) - [104 words]
Snow Already. (Poetry) - [148 words]
So Far So Good. (Poetry) - [259 words]
So In Love. (Poetry) - [247 words]
So Many Years. (Poetry) - [244 words]
So She'd Heard. (Poetry) - [155 words]
Sofia's Shadow. (Short Stories) - [591 words]
Some Days The Sunlight. (Poetry) - [196 words]
Some Evenings Near Death. (Poetry) - [176 words]
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Something About Him. (Poetry) - [105 words]
Sometimes Always. (Poetry) - [125 words]
Sometimes It Was. (Poetry) - [148 words]
Sometimes Memories Of Love. (Poetry) - [165 words]
Sonia Sleeps. (Poetry) - [72 words]
Speakeasy (Poetry) - [231 words]
Speaking To Tennyson. (Poetry) - [458 words]
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Spying On Mother. (Poetry) - [230 words]
States Of Mind.(Poem) (Poetry) - [331 words]
Status Quo.(Poem) (Poetry) - [233 words]
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Still Life. (Story) (Short Stories) - [613 words]
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Tell Finn. (Poetry) - [204 words]
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The Other You. (Poetry) - [212 words]
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Your Man. (Poetry) - [156 words]
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Before Jacob's Funeral.
Terry Collett
Maria sits out by the back door of the house with her eyes closed. Prayers are needed Mother said; Mother suggested, Father insisted as he always did. She clutches her small straw hat and a small posy of flowers picked that morning. Prayers to be said inside her head. She can hear the church bells toll across the fields, the smell of flowers, and the song of birds. Mother was busy getting ready inside the house, Senta the maid was helping her; she’d calm Mother down, Maria thinks, pushing prayers aside like small pieces of furniture in the wrong place at the time. She squeezes her eyes shut tighter so that lines appear in the corners like crowfeet. Hope the service won’t be long. Dom Pillion does go on so. Father snores; Mother sits embarrassed on Sundays when the sermon goes on and on. Maria gathers her thoughts like stray sheep and pens them into the moment now. Mother’s voice carries out of the upstairs window; Senta pours her calm water voice over her mother’s moans and panics and all becomes still. Knew she’d calm her; always manages, worth her weight. Maria sniffs. Flower’s scent. She can feel the straw hat with her small fingers, sense the posy in her right hand. All for Jacob: prayers, flowers, thoughts, funeral service, not too long service and sermon, hymns and organ music. Father chose. His choice. Wonder where Jacob is now? Odd him not being here; not teasing; not laughing, not fishing. She can see him in her mind’s eye. Running, he was always running. Maria sighs. Opens her eyes. No one there. His place is still laid at mealtimes; Father insists. His chair vacant; the cutlery unused. The bowl of soup left to get cold; the main course set there until all have finished then it is taken away. The offering, Father says, must be made. Brothers are irreplaceable; Jacob is. None other. Just him and she, now just she alone. No more fishing. No sitting beside the river watching him fish. She’d go down by the river one day again maybe. See where he slipped in and drowned. So quick. Just the rush of it all; the water flowing quick; Jacob’s cry, his hand up waving, then gone; nothing. Some nights she sees his hand waving from the water in her dreams. Helpless she watched; stood up called out. But he couldn’t hear; just the rush of water; the bird song. Maria hears Father’s voice bellowing from the yard. Thunderous. Temper driven. Son lost. She clutches the posy tightly. Strokes the straw hat. Rough edges. Fingers feel. She turns her head. The church in the distance; the bells still tolling; birds in the sky. Son drowned, only the daughter remaining. What’s worth? Father’s words, not hers. Overheard as she stood outside their bedroom door a few nights before. Raised voices. Senta came and took Maria back to her bed; settled her down, soft voice calmed; gentle hand stroked to sleep. Father’s voice echoes through the trees. Time for the service soon: the hymns, organ, voices, sermon not too long and the coffin coming through the church doors carried aloft. A gift. To God returned. Too soon, Mother had said. Maria breathes in the air. Takes into her lungs. Jacob kissed her once on the ear where her small earrings hang. She feels them. The kiss or memory of the kiss wet there. Fingers touch. Fondle the earrings. Prayers needed, Mother said; Mother suggested, Father insisted. Stern and stiff he comes out of the back door with Mother behind him. Senta lingers behind rubbing her hands, raising her brows, pulling a face, giving a warning. Maria stands and puts on her straw hat and holds the posy in her right hand gently. Senta raises her finger to her lips behind Father's back. Say nothing. Prayers said inside her head. The bells toll from the far fields. Father sighs. Mother cries and Senta takes Maria’s left hand in hers and squeezes fondly, whispering a soft Ave to take them through the dark hours of the depressing day.
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© 2010 Terry Collett |
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
April 2010 |
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