Anthony Barret Parr, Writing

Anthony Barret Parr, Writing

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My ghost story...

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Anthony Barret Parr
Nov 07, 2025
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The Summer of 1990

It was deep in the summer of 1990, in a corner of Louisiana where the air sticks to your skin and everything smells like wet wood and impending rain. That’s when my girlfriend and I broke up.

“I can’t keep pretending,” she’d said that last night, her voice barely above a whisper. We were sitting on her porch swing, the chains creaking w…

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