A World Turned Back To Cinders

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This story is an excerpt from John Graham's novel "Running As Fast As I Can".

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…world turned back to cinders

We spent most of our afternoons lying together in the Starlight Motel on the north side of campus. We made love, passionate, deep, caring love like I never felt before. Afterward we would lay there, holding each other, and talking like we did in college, as if the past four years never happened, as if she never got married. I told her all about how I wanted to make a difference with kids like Daquan, and even guys like…


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We Live As We Dream--Alone

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I shared space with people called family. We had the same address, ate at the same table, even had the same last name, but we were strangers. We all lived alone together.

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…haunted by memories.

I can still see that model airplane I built when I was twelve years old. I had a job delivering newspapers after school and saved all my money through most of the seventh grade. I wanted to buy an authentic P-40 Tomahawk fighter kit I'd been eyeing in the window of Thompson's Hobby Shop. It even had a working motor. The manager told me it…


By John Graham

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