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A Secret Garden by Marissa J. Gates

Posted on Apr 19, 2019Jun 18, 2019 by Marissa J. Gates

While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth garden that is the middle of me. Hope waits at the gates as I swing myself over and over the green pond at the center and rub fallen pink rose […]

Wedding Ring by Julia Nunnally Duncan

Posted on Jul 14, 2017Sep 19, 2017 by Julia Nunnally Duncan

Years ago, my grandmother gave me her mother’s wedding ring. Occasionally, I try it on, holding out my hand to see how the wide gold band shines in the light, as my great-grandmother might have done in November 1889 when it was slipped on her finger to linger for fifty years until she died. Now […]