Tag: mother

• 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

• A Mass Engraving

  

  Requests come in daily. They are from loved ones wanting a rubbing from the Wall. A rubbing of the engraving they have requested be mailed to them. Loved ones who are unable to make the trip to the capitol. Loved ones who will not see their own eyes staring back from the glassy black wall.…

  Dan Metzger

  September 3, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  America, creative writing, death, engraving, etched, family, Fiction, history, hope, loss, love, missing, mother, mourning, names, rubbing, son, Vietnam Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, Vietnam War, volunteers, war, Washington D. C.

• Yelling Tinder

  Courtney hadn’t seen her mother in almost a year and a half. It’s the sacrifice you make when you move from one coast to the next to pursue a job, or in her case, a relationship. That whole thing had blown up in her face. two years after the big move from upstate New York…

  Dan Metzger

  August 22, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  breakfast, brother, california, date, dating, daughter, family, home, mom, mother, New York, relationships, romance, social media, Tinder, visit

• Fodder for Retrospect

  

  The limp expression on his face was nothing new, but it still tore gently into Monica’s chest each time she looked at her son. With each tear in the fabric of motherhood, she buried the urge to give up, to send him to another doctor, to admit to the nagging suspicion that she might be…

  Dan Metzger

  August 19, 2015

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  art, bipolar, bipolar disorder, city, college, communication, creative writing, daughter, depression, despair, driving, family, Fiction, hope, love, mental health, mental illness, mother, music, psychology, scene, son

• The Webber’s Sorrow

  

  For the malice Nature thrusts upon us no remedy exists. Time, I have come to believe, is the closest aid in relieving the pain of those circumstances in life over which man has no control. Although time is a concept, an unseen hand in its own nature, it is a healer. What comes to mind…

  Dan Metzger

  January 15, 2014

  Fiction, Short Story

  family, Fiction, independence, mother, parents, short story, spider, spider web