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Last week, I tried to give a birthday present to my friend. I was certain at the time that ..

<EM>I'll tell you a story: A fiction column by Shelly Reuben</em> My name is Chester McBride. I taught literature in Community College ..

My mother’s words were magic wands that cast spells over miles and generations. Certainly, three of those words, “Be ..

By Shelly Reuben Contributor INTRODUCTION When we were little kids, we had fathers, brothers, or uncles who walked ahead of us in the ..

By Shelly Reuben Once upon a time, the President of the Universe sat in his office and looked down through the ..

My pencils are sharpened. I have a dozen erasable pens at hand—six blue and six red. A stack ..

Imagine this: You are a child. You are bedazzled by brightly painted high-stepping horses with long flowing manes, bejeweled ..

Editor’s Note: The fol- lowing column originally appeared in the May 29, 2008 edition of The Evening Sun. Because I live ..

I think I was … um … mumble mumble years old before I realized that not everybody reads every single ..

I was going to a funeral service last Saturday when I started to think about my life as a secret ..

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