Articles by Amy Probst

Opinion

• Hamtramck Walk 01 (December 13, 2003) op_ed travel

  I am standing on my back porch, marveling at what turns out to be a sunrise as beautiful as the ones on vacation, over lakes, or fields of green. Marveling, because this is a Hamtramck sunrise, and it's never occurred to me before that crumbly urban areas had such things as sunrises. Or sunsets.

• Hamtramck Walk 03 (December 27, 2003) op_ed travel

  <b>Good morning, glories! </b>Backyard views from alleys and trains show us a soft, vulnerable view of life. We are sneaking in the back door, spying on real lives.

• Hamtramck Walk 04 (January 3, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Good morning, sunflowers. </b>Sunflowers are everywhere in Hamtramck, evoking memories of the past.

• Hamtramck Walk 05 (January 10, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Good Morning, Squirrel.</b> Squirrels stay out of focus now that grown-up eyes can see them more clearly.

• Hamtramck Walk 06 (January 17, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>At Elf's House.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 07 (January 24, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Not a Pet.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 08 (February 7, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>A tree essay.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 09 (February 14, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Good Morning, Puggles.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 10 (February 21, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Kitty, Kitty.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 11 (February 28, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Immaculate Conception.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 12 (March 6, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Home in Hamtramck.</b>

• Hamtramck Unplugged (March 13, 2004) op_ed

  A Hamtramck fix to tide everyone over until next week. A look at a Detroit neighborhood during a power outage.

• Hamtramck Walk 13 (March 20, 2004) op_ed travel

  <b>Beeing.</b>

• Hamtramck Walk 02 (April 10, 2005) op_ed travel

  <b>Good Morning, McDougall St. </b>Families of first generation Americans behave in certain predictable manners. Adults tend to keep to their own kind, usually, because theirs is the only language they speak. The kids, however, share a world, floating down a river of English that their parents can only watch from the shore. First appeared 2003-12-20

Short

• Dunder Chief: Your Back Door Man (January 31, 2004) short

  An exerpt from the 2002 NaNo Novel, Dunder Chief.

• I-75 South (February 14, 2004) short

  Sixty bucks from selling most of their clothes, some ham sandwiches, and a hunting knife is all the girls have to see them safely to Florida. Their first ride calls them stupid little girls, but even at sixteen, sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

• Ghost Story (February 21, 2004) short fiction, contemporary

  Some of us are haunted by ghosts, shadows of the past that were once ourselves but have been deliberately left behind, sacrificed so that the living can rest in peace.