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  Idioms

  

  By M_Jet17, Los Gatos, CA

  They tell us to stop and smell the roses, Sometimes they forget that there are thorns. They tell us every cloud has a silver lining, Sometimes they forget that silver tarnishes. They tell us that it’s only icing on the cake, Sometimes they forget that the frosting is the best part. The...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Tattoo

  

  By M_Jet17, Los Gatos, CA

  He knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. As his youngest granddaughter nestled her head into the leathery concave between his neck and shoulder, just as so many of her cousins had done before her, the old man buried his face in the wild tangle of curls the girl had inherited from her mother, ...