#atozchallenge: Family & Fiends

2014: A Year In Stories
A twelve-volume anthology published by Pure Slush Books.

Ah, family. The home of our souls.

Where no one judges us, where no one makes demands on us.

"Graduate college!" your parents tell you. "Go get a job and live your life!" Well, plonk, here I am. I've graduated college. I've got a job. What do you want me to do now, authority figures? Give me a map, because without all those demanding voices in my head, I'm a little bit lost.

Isa, by Rachel Ambrose (2014 January Vol. 1)

Going back home, his own tail between his legs. Begging for his old job back. Giving Pa the satisfaction of another I told you so. They say decisions are choices between consequences. Compared to Pa, Milena is a beast he can tame.

The Miracle of Small Things, by Guilie Castillo-Oriard (2014 January Vol. 1)

Top 20 Photos of 2013 -- #11

Today's edition of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge:

July 2013, Amsterdam. My brother-in-law listening to his mother answer the judge's question:

Why do you think your son asked you to be a witness to his marriage?

The photo itself isn't special except for the fact that it's among maybe 10 others (of over 60) I shot

that didn't come out blurry. I was shooting without a tripod and without flash (I hate flash), more an

experiment than actual documentation--witness the professional photographer behind the groom.

But it's special--very, very much so--to me because of the moment, the raw emotion.

The little boy inside the man.