Author: Jane Corkish
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“Whisper Comes Home” (Excerpt from the Unpublished Novel Women of the Horse)
September 9, 1968. The Barn Whisper’s new stall has been ready for a night and a day. The oat straw, golden in the afternoon light, is fluffed a foot deep and banked deeper still on the sides of the tie stall. The water bucket is full and clipped, just so, in the manger. The manger…
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Only Human
Here is a definition of Only: “On-ly: and no one or nothing more besides.” If we follow this definition of “only” to its logical conclusion, “only human” could be an oxymoron, kind of like Progressive Conservative or Artificial Intelligence. But then it is easy to play with the meaning of words, much like a potter…
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My Love Is Like A ….
My love is like a rose? How about a warm, burning fire? My heart is a slow-burning log, and it gets me into no end of trouble…… She’s 5 foot 2, eyes of blue, and I’m off to the rodeo…. The best metaphors are where you, dear reader, are left to figure out what is…