Dust Mote
I am a dust mote, a speck, a barely perceptible particle, created, not from nothing, but from destruction— the breakdown of something large into something tiny— tattered leaves crushed blossoms [...]
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Mar, 2024
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Mar, 2024
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes The secret to rubber-soled shoes is that they are often imbued with the ghosts of deceased dogs, dogs who were loyal and eager to serve, [...]
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Feb, 2024
Alligator Pears
In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and the sloths slunk low, and the [...]
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Feb, 2024
Bread Cats
Because it was my birthday this week, I decided to re-publish one of my very own favorites. Meow. . . After midnight the day-old loaves of bread in the bakery [...]
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Feb, 2024
Charlie and Mabel
As a Valentine treat, I’m reviving a little romantic tale of an amorous, adventurous couple. Charlie was a regular guy living a regular life. Then he met Mabel and he slipped [...]
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Feb, 2024
Banana Nut
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: thankful, baking banana nut muffins, authentic, for that special__, keep busy, he was a rubber duckling, intemperate desires, sitting on a [...]
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Jan, 2024
Ready
Ready Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: prepare for, it was the zipper, the worst, once upon a time, midnight in a perfect world, Monday is for [...]
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Jan, 2024
Full Moon Ritual
Written with the prompts: this will be a difficult journey, you will have all the time you need, never questioned, don’t say anything, learn to__, open the box, what if [...]
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Jan, 2024
They Come Back
Written with the prompts: don’t feed the ducks for health and hygiene, a door rattling in the wind, helpful, they come back to bless us My sister Darlene told me [...]
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Jan, 2024
Gifted
Every week when Lindsay came home from the grocery store she’d find a special treat in her brown paper grocery sacks, a gift from the flirtatious bag boy who seemed [...]