Jonquil
Jonquil
Short Story (Prose)
· Historical · 16 pages
A pre-adolescent girl whose mother is in perimenopause (angry about a sweet Brittany Spaniel in heat) has an existential moment in a basement crawl space hiding with her dog, wondering whether there is any reason to go on living.
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Leslie Reynard
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Leslie Reynard, a compulsive reader-learner from age 3, first earned a college degree as a 40-something widowed mother. She went on to earn graduate degrees, staying in college to afford health insurance and to be there when her sons came home from school
Thus, a difficult situation was a serendipity, the opportunity to expand her learning, tr...
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