A Morning in June

A Morning in June

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Levi says, “You can’t make this stuff up!” He’s talking about the arrest of several of our elected officials who’ve been accused of bribing folks for votes. Paying folks through favors or what-not to make...
Lifted Up

Lifted Up

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Arbor switches off the TV, throws the remote onto the coffee table with a thud. She can’t watch one more minute of Miranda Lambert mooning over her ex, Blake Shelton, singing about her broken heart....
Here Comes the Sun

Here Comes the Sun

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Julie feels it, the pulsing heat that rises above the blacktop road, shimmers through the leaves of the maple tree in her front yard. She holds onto the feeling even as the day ends, as the sun droops and...
Fences

Fences

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] I’d been through a few men by then. Not so many as to cause a scandal, but enough. My best friend Jimmie Ann and I were lying on the dock trading stories, telling each other why our romances didn’t work out,...

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