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“A Toddler Boy” in Brevity.

My dad and Joshua in our backyard, 1992.

“Lydia Walked” in River Teeth‘s Beautiful Things.

New walker Lydia.

“Checking” in Cincinnati Review‘s MiCRo.

Lydia at 2 months old.

“Lydia” in Walking the Line: An Anthology of Parkinson’s Writing.

Lydia’s first Christmas–with my dad in WV.

“Candy Crane” in Sweet Lit.

1998, a Civil War reenactment at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington, WV.

“A Haunting” in Shenandoah.

Peggotty in Taos, NM.

“What Happens When You Drown” in Brevity.

Joshua in Myrtle Beach, SC, 2011.

“Beagle in the Road” in Superstition Review.

“Things Sad People Shouldn’t Have” in Pank.

One of my sisters (not sure which!) and Uncle Mark at my grandparents’ house, around 1995.

“Portraits within Portraits” in Guernica.

Joshua and Jennifer, Christmas 2011. Due to a camera setting, picture’s date stamp is December 2012, our first Christmas with no Smoo.

“Ten Years Ago” in Brevity.

Kindergarten graduate Smoo. I can’t bring myself to cut anything Smoo apart.

“Grateful” in River Teeth‘s Beautiful Things.

Grandad making pancakes, 96 years old.

“Shorn” in Wigleaf.

PaPa as a young man with his mother. I love his socks.

“Under the Night Heron Tree” in Wigleaf.

Photo by Mdf at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=252968

Polaroid at our grandparents’ house in 1993–Joshua, Jennifer, me, Rebecca.

“Garbage-Bag Charity” in SNReview.

“A Memoirist Teaches Narrative” in the open-source textbook Who Teaches Writing?