Spring 2025
I thank my Thursday night writing group for creating such a safe space so I might write this. There are a few prompts in here, most notably "heal darkness" which [...]
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Apr, 2025
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Mar, 2025
Popcorn
The prompt for this piece was to anthropomorphize a smell, a taste, or an inanimate object. This is what “popped” into my head! Have you noticed the smell of [...]
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Mar, 2025
Plum: an Equinox Story
Plum: an Equinox Story She calls herself Plum and she lives on a patch of dirt at the edge of a winding road near the river levee. She lives amid [...]
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Mar, 2025
Tearing Down a Wall
I wrote this story years ago, when NPR had a flash fiction contest for Presidents' Day. It didn't win, maybe because Ronald Reagan didn't appear in the story himself. But [...]
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Mar, 2025
Why We Were Brought Together
Why We Were Brought Together Isabel’s daughter Allison had named the puppy Hannah Montana after that dreadful Miley Cyrus character, and of course Isabel was okay with it. After all, [...]
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Feb, 2025
White Violets
The prompt for this was to use the names of Oscar winning movies. I chose The Shape of Water In late February Marcella found a meager crop of unevenly spaced [...]
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Feb, 2025
I Didn’t Know He Was the Devil
These prompts are from Two Sylvias Newsletter: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”-flower prompts!—bleeding heart, devil’s backbone, cupid’s dart, angels’ trumpet, fairy bells, lamb’s ear, hen and chicks, sneezeweed, ghost pipe, [...]
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Feb, 2025
Love is an Avocado
A special poem for Valentine's Day! Love is an avocadoshaped like the human heart,and the human heartis a pumpthat sends the blood reelingin ways gravity alonecannot do.But the human heart [...]
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Feb, 2025
The Story of Two Cookies
Two Cookies This was written with my Thursday night group. There were many prompts as usual, but I only used two: the story of two cookies and dumbass pandemic During [...]
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Jan, 2025
Happy St. Brigid’s Feast Day!
Fifty-something years ago in a Catholic school not so far away, the nuns used to read to us from The Lives of the Saints. St. Brigid was always my favorite, [...]