Tari Temple
Bio
I have been writing since I was 10. I was born and raised in the desert of Southern New Mexico. The greatest blessings in my life are God, family, and writing. Writing for me is not just a hobby, but a huge part of who I am as a person.
Stories (3)
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Under Her Branches
Under her Branches School was out for the summer. My brother, Darryn, and I were about to spend the entire summer vacation at my aunt and uncle’s fishing cabin in Cross Creek, Florida—a world away from Miami. Earlier that year, our Uncle Stanley had moved his wife, Aletha, and their three boys up to north central Florida to raise his family in a more country atmosphere, away from the hustle and bustle of a big city. His intentions, though good, disrupted the family, which in the years that followed caused a migration of our entire family in that same direction.
By Tari Temple4 years ago in Fiction
Grandmother’s Treasures
A Soldier's Riddle My grandmother passed away on my 20th birthday. She was a sweet lady who loved and cared for me after my mom, a single parent, had been killed in a car wreck ten years earlier. I was too grieved to cry or show any emotion at the funeral. We had no other family in the area, but people from our neighborhood church came by with food, condolences, and offers of help for the next several weeks. It had been over six months and I dreaded going through my grandmother’s things. I may have never tackled that insurmountable job, except that her house and property were being sold at auction the following month. I had tried everything to save it, but without her income added to mine to pay the mortgage every month, there wasn’t enough money to pay both the bills and the mortgage. It made me sad to think her home that had been in the family for generations would soon belong to someone else—someone with no connection to my grandmother, whatsoever.
By Tari Temple5 years ago in Humans
