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Linda Lemery
February 5, 2024

Valentine Dinner For Four (A Mamie and Solly Dialogue)

Scene:  Mamie is making oatmeal for breakfast.  Solly is drinking coffee and holding a file of papers. Mamie (stirring at the stove):  So, Solly, tall man with salt-and-pepper hair and crooked smile, love of my life, what would you like to do for Valentine’s Day? Solly (thumbing through the file):  It’s February?  Already? M (frowning): ... Read More
Fiction
January 9, 2024

Time, Cooper, and Me

Time is our biggest asset, but also our greatest enemy. The start of a new year is a good time to think about what time means to us.  In terms of assets, heightened awareness of time means making more choices about how to spend it. I’ve chosen to spend more time with the important people... Read More
Fiction
October 10, 2023

Plant XII:  Walk This Way (A Plant Dialogue)

(Scene:  For their daily outing, Linda pulls the sentient Plant inside the red wagon on the leaf-shaded sidewalk along West Main Street.  In the wagon, two pots of dirt closely line up behind Plant like a tail extending backward.) Plant:  You spend so much time walking.  Can you put a leaf on what you like... Read More
Fiction
August 10, 2023

Plant X:  Broom Therapy

(Scene:  Plant and Linda converse while Linda sweeps her sun-dappled kitchen floor.) Plant (curiously):  What are you doing? Linda (tolerantly):  Cleaning a living space helps people stay healthy. P:  And organized.  Why are you sweeping around those towers of manufactured goods rising up from the floor like staggering geometric islands? L:  The stacks of books,... Read More
Fiction
July 11, 2023

Plant IX: Right to Be Gone

(Scene:  Linda returns home after being gone for a week.  Plant anxiously awaits her arrival.) Plant: …Where have you been??  You were gone.  I felt abandoned.  Linda (dropping her suitcases at the door):  I’ve missed you, but I’ve been where I needed to be. P (querulously):  You didn’t even say goodbye. L (hanging up her... Read More
Fiction
June 7, 2023

Plant VIII: Father Figure

(Scene: Linda is hauling Plant, swaddled in blankets in a child’s red wagon, on a scenic tour around the block.) Linda: Plant, you’re heavy enough that hauling you up this hill in this wagon is running me subterranean. Plant (leaves quivering like a dog leg vibrating ecstatically): Oh, joy; so warm is the sunshine. L... Read More
Fiction
May 5, 2023

Plant VII: Motherlode

(Scene:  Plant and Linda are sitting in morning sunlight on Linda’s back porch.  In a birdhouse, a bird is feeding its young.) Plant: What is it like to have a mother? Linda:  You never give me any warning about when you’re going to start talking.  You just start. P:  Does that bother you? L:  You... Read More
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