In this hospital room everything is mint-colored and between the little girl with the broken leg and the old man who is dying there is a thin curtain. They have never seen each other. Each night the little girl sings to the old man. He always wants to hear the same song. She doesn’t [...]
Word of the Day
Saturday, October 22, 2011
anomie
\AN-uh-mee\ , noun;
1.
A sense of loneliness and anxiety; a state or condition characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
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It’s been two years, maybe three now. You look the same. I don’t. When you see me trying not [...]
Mrs. Brown taught 4th grade. She was six feet tall and mean, with a beehive and tinted glasses. She hated sweatshirts tied around waists and the sound of velcro. She liked coffee cake. Once on the way to the office I saw her in the parking lot, smoking a cigarette. I think she was crying. [...]
