A story based on the memories my paternal grandfather shared with me in his later years..
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Flash Fiction: A Labor of Love
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, I am posting this story which is an excerpt from a larger work in progress about my father's family that spans the years 1860 - the present. Papa is my great grandfather who worked 12+ hour grueling days as a longshoreman on the NYC docks and died while trying to provide for his family.
Read More »Book Review: She Was Aye Workin’: Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Helen Clark and Elizabeth Carnegie
Women by hard labour and careful calculation held together lives that today we'd consider near impossible.
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