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Fried and Flaming | Claire Tibble

March 26, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

The theme of my sister-in-law’s twenty-sixth birthday was “Fried and Flaming.” Her birthday was the Thursday before my other brother’s wedding, and we decided that she would only eat fried foods and drink flaming drinks to celebrate the anniversary of her birth. It all started a month before at my parents’ surprise party to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. At the party, my dad had told us about a drink called “The Statue of Liberty” in which you pour some […]

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A First | Melanie Coffee

March 19, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Everyone remembers where they were that day. You know the day. That day. People were at work, getting ready for work, getting the kids ready for school—all in our usual morning routines on that particular Sept. 11th.

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Quitting is the Cat’s Meow | Jill Howe

March 12, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

About four years ago, I had a breakthrough in quitting mentality. I had started dating for the first time. Well, I had been “dating” a man since college, though I don’t know if you consider eating in the university cafeteria and playing computer games together dating. I did, and we moved in together after college. He was a physicist who played “Legend of Zelda” on three monitors at once. He thought the city was almost as inconvenient as socializing. I […]

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My Own Prison | Grant Zemont

February 26, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

It was the last months of my senior year in college, 1994. I was so ready to leave N.I.U. and actually start my real life. On my last trip home before graduation, I met my dad at his favorite bar. Unbeknownst to me, that was the night he decided to impart to me his wisdom of the ages– the three things I needed to know before I entered the working world. Never trust HR. They are not there to help […]

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The Extraordinary Evan Kite | Maura Clement

February 19, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Much of life is determined by chance, much by choice. By chance, I forgot to check into my flight to Seattle last weekend. So, I was in the last group of passengers allowed to board the plane, which severely limited my choice of seats. If you’ve ever flown on Southwest Airlines, you know that when you check-in online 24 hours before your flight, you are given a number—1 through 60 in the A, B, or C group. That number and […]

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Addiction | Marya Hornbacher

February 14, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

I got so good at pool I had my own cue. It was a gift from a guy whose name I kept forgetting, maybe Peter, maybe Mike, a guy I’d agreed to marry during a Christmas Eve drunk. It was a candy-apple-red cue, had its own case, broke beautifully, cracked into the cue ball, scattered the tight rack of twelve colored balls like a spray of smashed glass. It was 1999, and I kept a bottle of Maker’s Mark at […]

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Life is a Cabaret… of Funfetti | Kendra Stevens

February 12, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

The folly of youth is like Funfetti cake: sweet and fun-seeming, with pastel pink and blue and green chunks of whatsits, only serving to break your teeth and hasten the onset of childhood diabetes. It’s the same folly that, coupled with three Bud Lights, will make you think you can jump a CTA turnstile with no repercussions. My second year in Chicago, my roommate, Amber, our friend, Dan, and I went to see Fosse at the Oriental Theatre. We were […]

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Rhinestone | J.H. Palmer

February 5, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Recently a prospective employer told me that the job I was interviewing for had received 350 applications in response to the posting.  I considered what this meant: my chances of getting offered the job were one in 350, or .2 percent, as in two tenths of one percent. Harvard University currently has an acceptance rate of 5.9 percent, or 30 times the acceptance rate of the entry level job I was interviewing for. So, it’s come to this: I’m preparing […]

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Beginnings | Lauren Sivak

February 1, 2014 by danastoryclubclevelandcom

Beginnings. To begin. To do something. Start something. Activate. Embark. Impulse. Get going. Go into. Beginnings. The unknown. Unfamiliar. Uncertainty. Beginnings. Something you are doing for the first time. Something, after which, you will never be the same.

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