Month: March 2017

Ghosts—-modern technology

Ghosts Modern technology allowsthe capturing of momentsfrom the outside in. Video& audio actions seized,then flattened in pixelsand .wav files: 1’s & 0’s. While posing uneasily for onequick pic, Mother stands in herwrinkled Muumuu promptlymuttering,“Oh, stow that damn camera.” Through diagonal TV images, you…Voyeur, perhaps even Gravedigger, nowreliving moments gone like lost breaths. You pause the […]

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The Stolen Pens

 The Stolen Pens alan w greenwood originally published in Grit magazine              MissMildred Perkins had taught third grade twenty five years at Herbert Hoover Grade School in Phil Mont, Texas. She had reached the grand old age of 50 years—half a century. 350 if you counted in dog years! And Miss Mildred Perkins marked her […]

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