I Should Stay

I Should Stay

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] If you’re not in love as Valentine’s Day approaches, you shouldn’t work in a candy shop. But I do, and today the parking lot is full. Sandy, who owns the place, had the windows painted with Cupid and hearts...
Girls Who Run

Girls Who Run

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Sometimes a girl just has to run. Sometimes her feet take over. This is one of those times, early morning, early January. I’m at the Alma City Park, on the trail popular with the older crowd at this...
Miraculous Works of Incredible Kindness

Miraculous Works of Incredible Kindness

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] It is still the quiet hours of Christmas morning, just after three, and Annie Mac tosses in her bed. She has fallen asleep in the dress she’d worn to her boyfriend’s mama’s house, and now...
Even When Good is Losing

Even When Good is Losing

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] The view from the back door of Lovie’s small house looks like a painting. She doesn’t own a lot of land, but there’s a field behind her property that a farmer uses to grow hay, and because...

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