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The Greater Trochanter Rex by Rita Plush

December 14, 2020 admin 6 Comments

The Greater Trochanter Rex?

Seriously, doesn’t that sound like a dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park? 

Yikes! Head for the hills! Here comes the greater trochanter rex! 

But alas, that soubriquet is not of a big, toothy and dumb-as-a-door dino, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Rita Plush

Wondrous Woman by Rita Plush

September 8, 2020 admin 3 Comments

My daughter has become a front line worker. She’s an OT (occupational therapist) at a rehab facility. Getting folks back on their feet after an injury or hospitalization, she teaches them to regain the old skills of dressing, feeding and …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Rita Plush

We Care by Rita Plush

July 11, 2020 admin 9 Comments

Summer, 1995 

The last of several strokes put my mother in a nursing home in Flushing, Queens, where my father’s constant visits and meddling in her health and welfare unnerved the aides, the nurses, the therapists, and the entire managerial …

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Attachments by Rita Plush

May 31, 2020 admin 4 Comments

I push forward. I pull back. Push forward. Pull back. Forward. Back. My hand grips the handle of my Shark “ultra-light upright,” walks it through my apartment. White noise constant, silencing my grief-stricken brain. She’s not dead. She’s not dead. …

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Happy Time by Rita Plush

May 1, 2020 admin 8 Comments

Back in the 70s, whenever I saw a youngish woman dressed for business, a parcel of groceries in her arms after a day’s work, I wanted to be her. I wanted her pantsuit life, a life of accomplishment and purpose, …

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Posted in: Fiction Filed under: Rita Plush

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