Novel excerpts: Growing old 6 Articles

by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

Liv Manlin (Down at the Puffery) The village of Waterland, in approaching it's unplanned obsolescence, had to eventually face more than one truth, some of them uncom...read more

by RENYE'

It was a cool spring evening with a gentle breeze. The sound of locusts chirping was strangely calming. I stared at my fingers. They had deep prune-like wrinkles, and looked like the hand of a child who stayed in the tub t...read more

by Aimee Jackson

I want to grow old. The alternative sucks. It seems that you can't get through the day without being bombarded with advertisements and imagery on aging. Rather, I should say, on aging gracefully and painlessly. I might ...read more

by Rachel Mcclain

Monitors don't beep anymore and I miss them. The new silence wraps around me and as long as I don't breathe too deeply, taking in the antiseptic smell, I can stare out the window and pretend that the outside is in. There i...read more

by Sheila Fox

The most surprising thing of all is that growing old comes as a surprise. How can that be? The only thing we can really count in is that we will all grow old...all of us. It is the one thing we are most in denial about...read more

by Nancy Hewitt

I stood watching Izzy on Saturday morning. She hit 3 in January. She is my baby. All grown up in so many ways but still so darn little. She's only 3. It was that phrase "I can't believe she is 3-she can't be 3" that m...read more