Tag Archives: death

This could be the first paragraph of a wonderful novel

By thingmeister | March 23, 2009

Instead, it’s a Random Thing:
My mother and I were on top of Mt. Schweitzer near Sandpoint, Idaho, when my father died. I know this because I kept the summer chairlift ticket stub with date/time stamp and compared it to the death information.

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A world of love and sadness in a short Thing

By thingmeister | March 22, 2009

Surely there is a story behind this one:
At age 20, I was already a mom and a widow. (I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody but if I lived my life over again I wouldn’t change a thing because Nicole is the best thing that has ever happened to me.)

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Violent death as a Random Thing

By thingmeister | February 11, 2009

One of your Thingmeister’s collection categories is “Slice of Life.” These are Things that capture a moment or an event. One of the longer but more powerful Things I’ve read is this one:
I witnessed a man killed when a truck ran over his head, in the 1980s. We were heading home from a summer [...]

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