Tag: second chances
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The Now
I was standing on a high school soccer field the other night. A storm front had just rolled past; the air had cooled in its wake. But we never saw a drop of rain. The lights over the field began to glow just as the sky opened to a sunset of oranges, pale blues, and…
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Scale
Every few minutes or so, another car passed. More trucks than cars, actually; I’d left town behind and ventured into farm country, where plowed fields like the one captured in this post’s featured image dominate.
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Nature; Leading Lines
You can return to places you’ve been before, sometimes the very next day, and encounter an entirely different scene, another world.
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Rejection – Take 1
This happened a while ago. What happened was, I wrote a story about a young nurse and her elderly patient for the “Bridge the Gap” contest Camera Obscura was putting on. I felt great about the story. While I now believe I felt good simply because I’d finished the piece, at the time I’d managed…