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Spoon River Anthology: Retell a characters story while setting it in current times

2/15/2011

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"Mrs. Kessler"
By: Ashley Lane
        I wash clothes for a living.  I know who have good and bad clothes.  I know patches and who buy new clothes.  While I'm washing clothes I learn people secrets from just washing their clothes.  I wash their curtains, counterpanes, shirts, and skirts.  I know that my husband was in the army, but sometimes I just wish his pension was more than six dollars.  I wish he would stop talking about politics, and just come and help me wash clothes.  I feel like we are being distanced because we never talk anymore.  All he do when he comes home from the streets are just look at his old war pictures, which I just think are very stupid.  I have realized from washing people's clothes that once you have patched up on the patches, there is no other way to patch holes anymore.  I can't even use the soap anymore to get out the stains.  It's not my fault that there are unwanted colors in women's dresses.   When I have to wash handkerchiefs, and table napkins, I also find that they also have their own type of secrets.  Everyone knows me in this empty town, knows me and the type of easy and normal life that I have.  I know of everyone that has died, that have lived in Spoon River.  Every time I see a dead face I think of their face or clothing being ironed or washed.  I wish that I could just stay home and play with my grandchildren.  I wish I had kids.  I wish that I, just wish that I had finished school and went to college to be a pediatrician.

"Hortense Robbins"
By: Brandon Brown

        It used to be a time when I had all the attention.  I stayed on everyone's mind and everyone's TV screen.  It was never a problem; but more of an accomplishment.  Now that it's all over, I sit at home every day.  I decided to get up after watching TV all day long.  I went out to lunch by myself to try forgettin about the past.  Someone walked up to me with a curious face.  This face was seen far too much.  I could predict exactly what was coming.  Another former fan that recognized me.  There has alway been a difference in my past life and now.  I was the talk of the town before; but now there's no one interested.  The few that do only say "hi" and move along with their day.  As I walked through the town, all the memories started to haunt me.  I couldn't think where everything started to go wrong and I didn't want to.  As I went home, I picked up the pieces.  And my adventure finally began all over.

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