Stories tagged “sentimental”

  • A Small Silver Chain

    All I’ve got left of my grandmother is a small silver chain. She’s gone from my life, from our lives, and I can’t help but feel that we are diminished by her absence. She’s not dead. Not yet. She has all her life existed somewhere between life ...

    • Author: J. K. W.
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.

  • Going After the Rustlers

    Johnny’s hands clenched into tight fists around the horse’s reins. He fought not to let the tears in his eyes drop, turning his face down so the old man in the saddle wouldn’t see. “You can’t go after them, grampa. This is...

    • Author: bluefish
    • Posted almost 2 years ago.
    • 3 out of 5

  • For A Lady I Know

    My last sentiment Meant merely cents To her high dollar flight And chauffuer caller that night. I feel without when I’m with her— She’s in doubt sniffing drugs as her thoughts wither.

  • Sentimentality

    One after another, I stuffed my belongings into my suitcase, working efficiently. I had never been the sentimental type; even as a child, I had tried not to assign feelings to inanimate objects. Things got lost, burned in fires, shrank in the laundry. ...