The Sad Story of the Broken Can Opener
Written with my Thursday group with the prompts: fascinating, taking orders, Irish Black Pudding, over the top, sat in surgical peace, you get, they loved my Freddie but they loved [...]
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Jul, 2022
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Jul, 2022
The Poet, The Coyote, and The Canon Wireless Printer
It was a pretty simple prompt the other night: in the tradition of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, give your story an enticing three-item title. Sorry to sound [...]
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Jul, 2022
Fur Slippers
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: Evelyn was three years older, bingo, when the killing began, felt kinda sorry for her, dance with your eyes closed, brown [...]
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Jul, 2022
Happy 4th
I’m writing this on Monday night, and I just heard the news that 46 people—most likely migrants—were found dead in a trailer near San Antonio, Texas. Last week, Roe v. [...]
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Jun, 2022
Hot Tea
Joey picked up the coffee mug with both hands and took a cautious sip of the hot liquid. It was early spring 1999. He sat in the lobby of his [...]
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Jun, 2022
Resisting Every Inch of the Way
Resisting Every Inch of the Way Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: dates with nothing in them, a gun fighter and a bag of gold, resisting every [...]
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Jun, 2022
Yearning
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: 34 states, a black silk frog, blue silk dress, bruised knees, the strange sensation of of wearing someone else’s clothes, close [...]
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Jun, 2022
One At A Time
Written with my Thursday night group with he prompts: Howard Johnson’s, she liked it because she didn’t have to tell them her name, the toothache wouldn’t go away, but you [...]
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May, 2022
Memorial Day Greetings
This Memorial Day I pray and affirm that we may come together to celebrate an enduring legacy of American compassion and courage. We honor the sacrifices of our parents and [...]
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May, 2022
Change
Change Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: 13 new ways to . . . , ended up in the living room, change, nobody breaks my heart, enduring, [...]