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Timothy Sanford Hankins lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is a well-intentioned but frustrated writer and a prolific if unsuccessful recording artist. Please consider making a donation to help support original, creative work. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed, if you'd like. Or, maybe you'd like to follow @hnkns on Twitter. Author photo by Brian Wagner.
Open Wounds
For Margaret Lemanski, Christmas has been marred by a theft that picks the open sore of her grief. During a memorial event at Grandview Cemetery in Maryville, Tennessee, she placed two battery-operated, lighted Christmas trees at the grave of her grandson, Leviticus Crabtree, who died in October 2007 shortly after his birth.
The trees were stolen less than 24 hours later.