Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Dances with Destiny: Unforgettable Pas de Deux
    Dances with Destiny: Unforgettable Pas de Deux
    Dances with Destiny: Unforgettable Pas de Deux
    Ebook41 pages29 minutes

    Dances with Destiny: Unforgettable Pas de Deux

    By Claire Markette

    5/5

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This collection of eleven sensitively written vignettes highlighting experiences and relationships is a wistful look back at life and love, their joys and disappointments, and the lessons we learn from our past and from the "dancers" in our lives. The essays can be read in a progression from Dance 1 to 11, or separately in any order.

        

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaire Markette
    Release dateOct 4, 2015
    ISBN9781519950833

    Related to Dances with Destiny

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Dear Frankie

      Aug 1, 2021

      Dear Frankie
      19 min read

    • Article

      Allegiance

      Nov 6, 2023

      Allegiance
      12 min read

    • Article

      Memorizing and Memory: A Writer’s Estranged Cousins

      May 2, 2019

      Oh, but daddy could speak. His words are emblazoned on my memory. They land on the pages I write—ubiquitous, textured, yet not easy to digest. The post Memorizing and Memory: A Writer’s Estranged Cousins appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Eternal Adventure

      Jun 29, 2021

      The Eternal Adventure
      4 min read

    • Article

      Locals

      Jun 11, 2021

      Locals
      26 min read

    • Article

      The Portrait

      Mar 1, 2018

      I WAS BORN almost completely deaf, and by the time I was seven I had already become a prisoner to my education. In the morning, I had speech therapy and tutoring with Mr. Bishop. We sat at my family’s long dining-room table, which was always covered

      9 min read

    • Article

      Worn With Love

      Nov 6, 2019

      Worn With Love
      15 min read

    • Article

      Little House

      Jun 5, 2023

      On Monday nights our mother made popcorn and served it to us in mugs with milk poured over. My younger sister and I carried our mugs into the family room and ate the popcorn with spoons, like cereal. We were five and seven. Until we were allowed to s

      21 min read

    • Article

      Dear Frankie

      Oct 3, 2021

      Dear Frankie
      18 min read

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      Where Is The Poem

      Nov 1, 2023

      I was struck with faithin the classroom the windowonto the quadrangle was open the black-board was washed with erased, grayish thoughts someone hadrubbed in fluid ovals Donne’s speaker’s desire woke in a cradle he was a molten baby again my thighs in

      3 min read

    • Article

      Push Play

      Apr 6, 2020

      Push Play
      7 min read

    • Article

      Smells Like Teen Spirit

      Jan 31, 2021

      Smells Like Teen Spirit
      2 min read

    • Article

      It’s Come to This

      Sep 1, 2021

      It’s Come to This
      16 min read

    • Article

      OreoArroyo

      Jul 6, 2021

      WHEN THE STRIPPER STRUTTED INTO THE LIBRARY, SHE COULDN’T hide her dismay. Probably, she and her bodyguard expected a bachelor party or investment bankers celebrating a big deal at the mansion overlooking the Newport Coast. She wouldn’t have anticipa

      21 min read

    • Article

      All In The Cards

      Nov 25, 2019

      IN CREATIVE WRITING courses, we’re often told that quotidian topics make the best grist for the mill. We’re asked to consider the most mundane of items, the ones we step over in the houses of our memories or don’t notice because they are always there

      7 min read

    • Article

      Girls On The Playground

      Feb 18, 2021

      Girls On The Playground
      15 min read

    • Article

      What I Saw When I Really Looked: My Late Brother, Heroin, and Grief

      Oct 22, 2018

      1. When the tomatoes were ripe, when my closet was eager with crisp shirts and clean sneakers, when I had jumped off of a high swing and was lying in the grass listening to mourning doves and lawn mowers—that’s when the hot air balloons came. One of

      12 min read

    • Article

      My Best Friend

      Oct 1, 2020

      My Best Friend
      6 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      I recall loneliness is cousinto privacy when I turn the glossypages in a monograph. Long-deadmakers and their quiet study capture the intangible of a personstanding in a field or looking out a windowalways interior in the exterior.Are all paintings l

      3 min read

    • Article

      Survival Mode

      Jan 12, 2022

      Survival Mode
      4 min read

    Reviews for Dances with Destiny

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Dances with Destiny - Claire Markette

      Contents

      ENSEMBLES

      1  If  Brothers Had Been Sisters

      2  High School Dream

      3  Culture Shock

      PARTNERING

      4  Kurt

      5  The Perfect Guy

      6  A Bridge to the Future

      7  That Perfect Afternoon

      8  Dinner for Two

      9  Mendocino

      10  The Gift

      11  Bedroom Secrets

      THE AUTHOR THANKS ALL her former dancing partners for helping to pave a path to her destiny through their love and inspiration.

      Dance 1

      If Brothers Had Been Sisters

      I ALWAYS HAD A WARM, close relationship with my three brothers, even though two of them were quite a bit older. When I was very young, they would gently tease me or tussle with me until my mother called for them to stop so I wouldn’t become a tomboy. As I recall, they were always there to comfort and protect, except for the younger one, whom I protected, being the older sister.

      I grew up surrounded by masculinity, and more often than not, listened to dinner table conversation about carburetors, RBIs, and field goals rather than fashions or hairstyles. My mother and I were hopelessly outnumbered.

      The alien world of boys’ bedrooms, painted in shades of blue or brown, greeted the curious female visitor with lots of strength and action and the smell of model glue and sweaty socks. I remember raising myself up on shiny patent leather shoes to peek at the top of a maple dresser that had been converted to the Pacific Ocean or a World War II airfield. Patriotic grey-blue plastic models of planes, aircraft carriers, and battleships proudly awaited their creator who was at school. The intricate radar stations swiveled and turrets turned, and the delicate wires with multicolored flags and insignias connected the masts and decorated imposing vessels, representing real ships that sailed the seas and fought for liberty. Tiny pink fingers were tempted to slowly swirl propellers, and the little rubber wheels glided so smoothly across the wooden runway!

      My dolls were lifelike—they made noises and had pretty names and could be cuddled. Planes and ships only had black numbers and letters on the sides but held some sort of strange tough power I couldn’t quite comprehend. Other bedroom treasures included stacks of comic books about spaceships and Martians, parts of Boy Scout uniforms, and a globe of the world that I found fascinating and loved to spin to

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1