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Ninety clear glass marbles, a suicide note, a deathbed confession
By Our ReadersFebruary 1993He sat in there re-reading his Marx and Engels, cocooned in a shell, seemingly at peace. Then came the symptoms: a problem holding his knife and fork; a slight slur of speech. The diagnosis was Lou Gehrig’s disease. His life was ending soon.
By Robert KelseyOctober 1992A new lifeguard, a poinsettia-plant-watering mystery woman, a big sister at the birth of her brother
By Our ReadersOctober 1992My father brought Jake’s body home from Colorado in a record-breaking blizzard.
By Lisa ZimmermanSeptember 1992Marvin had been watching the car, a red Ford Escort, drive by his house for perhaps twenty minutes. It was driven by a young fellow, probably one of the local college students.
By Lisa ZimmermanFebruary 1992Even with two thick coverlets over the blankets, her pelvic bone pressed like a wooden hanger against my cheek; I was sure it would leave a red mark. She had been eating for nearly two weeks now. How thin could she have been when she was first released?
By Elisa JenkinsSeptember 1991Secret codes, an underground network of doctors, complications
By Our ReadersSeptember 1991Then, a mist drifted up in front of my eyes. It started gray. It began to burn, to get redder and redder and the words I heard rolling from my lips were like the words my grandpa knew. They were holy words, words of the old prophets. Wanton. Strumpet. Whore. Sister of the serpent, angel of evil, Satan’s bitch, vessel of filth, pestilence of desire, demoness eater of the soul.
By Mary SojournerJuly 1991Picture days in grade school, summers on fire lookouts, Saturday afternoons at the movies
By Our ReadersDecember 1990Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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