
Quicksand Kids is a place for fiction, nonfiction, and humor. Drawings too. And poetry when I feel gutsy enough. Also, I'll read a few stories out loud, as they say.
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When my mother, Janice, was a middle-school girl, she had a crush on a powerful boy.
His power:
All the gals loved him.
I’m guessing his name was Jack. Jack the tall. Jack of the symmetrical face and moneyed parents. Jack th...
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I thought I knew all my grandfather’s stories. Now I know better. Just a few days ago, he told me a new one.
Why?
Maybe because his Dan (though he’s always called me “Dan, Dan, the Jumping Man”) is now old enough. I’m 44. I sup...
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They’re saying it everywhere, and they don’t seem to mind that it scares me, hurts me:
“Back to school.”
This shouldn’t scare or hurt anymore. I’m all grown up, after all.
Wrong; I’m something else entirely…
I’m a teacher....
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I was ten years old and dead asleep in the middle of the night. Then something woke me up.
A mysterious something was happening out in the house.
I heard the sounds of someone running.
This runner was cutting back and forth....
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“I know a story,” Grampa said.
His smile deepened, darkened, and his eyes got all mysterious. He added, “Though I promised I’d never tell it.”
“TELL ME,” I said.
He did.
But first, he said, “Since I promised I wouldn’t tell,...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I’m an author-illustrator in Western Pennsylvania. My stories and essays can be found on my Spotify podcast, Misbehaving In Maine.
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