Before Paper
Before paper, everyone spoke in rhyme or else you’d forget what was on your grocery list. You’d go out to buy a hat and be forced to buy food for [...]
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Aug, 2018
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Jul, 2018
Angel Food
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: Angels don’t have to eat but Gabriel likes it, he missed tasting food, it looked impossible, my first reaction, or “It [...]
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Jul, 2018
White Paper and Water
School children rushed up the city street. The shu-shush of their corduroy pants woke the white paper birch trees from their dreams. The children had come from an ocean as [...]
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Jul, 2018
The Wind
Written with my Thursday night group. The prompt was “the wind has to stop!” But I interpreted it a bit differently. The wind has two stops. It curls down Alhambra Boulevard [...]
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Jul, 2018
Escaping Fresh Produce
Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: waiting for the rain, in the kitchen, wayfarer, in the hands of God Maryann sat in the kitchen surrounded by [...]
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Jun, 2018
The Musings of Marietta Mallard
This was written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompt, "Don't feed the ducks." It should be noted that the photo above is of Joe Mallard, as his [...]
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Jun, 2018
His True Name
I got very busy with the actual (as opposed to the virtual) world last week and missed a post. So here are three stories to make up for it. Or [...]
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May, 2018
A stranger came to my door
This is a piece of Flash Fiction that I wrote with my Thursday night group with a list of prompts too long to copy here. This is NOT a fictionalized [...]
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Apr, 2018
Green Beard
Written with my Thursday night group Prompts: none of us do, he had a beard twice as long, once you know that, possible flaw, remember the accident, so many lies, [...]
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Mar, 2018
The Lizard
Written at Thursday Group, after a guided meditation in which we were invited to imagine finding a gift under the water, and then transforming into a flower. My friends told me [...]