Tag: children

• Pink Bow Untied

  

  Rain would have been more fitting. Clouds. Torrential downpours. Some freak hurricane. Not this nurturing warmth that was carried in the breeze along with the songs of springtime robins. The boys were out with their father picking up new fishing poles and getting something for lunch. Patrick felt it best that Isabella, his wife, the…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  alcohol, baby, children, creative writing, darkness, family, father, friendship, home, house, loss, love, miscarriage, mother, motherhood, pain, relationships, sadness, scene, separation, soup, spring, tears

• Diving Sticks and Other Recollections of Public Pools

  I once cracked open a diving stick and emptied the sand from it for no good reason. I walk past the fence of the public pool and am hit with a burning sensation within the caverns of my nostrils from the day I first jumped into deep water without holding my nose. Instinct exhales the…

  Dan Metzger

  August 10, 2016

  Fiction, Gallimaufry

  blind, childhood, children, creative writing, diving, memory, old lady, pool, public pool, summer, swimming, swimming pool