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About me

Esther Mills is a published poet/essayist as well as the author of a best-selling children's book which has not yet been published. Formerly from Tacoma, WA, she currently shares a house in Ohio with two children, two frogs, a rat, and a dog that provide her with rich entertainment.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

writing, reading, and cheese.

I know too much about ...

Shrek (that is, I know an embarrassing number of lines from the movie).

My parents always told me ...

any work can be enjoyable once you make a game of it.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer, an actress, or Daisy Duke (I blame the 80s).

My favorite memory ...

sneaking outside with my mother in the middle of the night to sit on my swingset and look at the stars.

My first job ...

a microfiche machine operator at a microfilm company for medical records.

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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: The family reunion: 2 of 11

They are all that is left of their family - a gaunt, bald man, and his white-haired second cousin. It has been such a long time she's even forgotten their childhood language. It's all right; this is a miraculous day, and neither of them care. "Do you remember It?" He asks, and the guide-turned-interpreter relays the question to the half-deaf woman. No one has to ask what It is. It was the "It" that had changed their lives, haunted their dreams, and nearly extinguished their futures. There was only one "It." "Yes," she answers. A cloud passes over her age...
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