Pack Animal
Years ago he faithfully wore a tiny Star Spangled Banner—an American flag pin—on the lapel of his suit jacket. It gave him a certain caché, marked him as being a [...]
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Jul, 2025
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Jun, 2025
In My Dreams
I wasn't sure where this was going, then I decided to take it over the top (literally) because why not??!! Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: [...]
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May, 2025
Options
Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: rock the test, I prefer trees, fewer and fewer options for a detour, sad frowny face, rose-colored mess, hunting [...]
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May, 2025
A Gift
A Gift Preacher Williams waited till dusk before he set off in his old Toyota because he didn’t want to be seen. He even drove the last mile without headlights [...]
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May, 2025
Harbinger
Trudy dreamed that she found three red hens nested beneath the camellia bush that grew outside her kitchen window. They were serene little birds, chuckling quietly together in the [...]
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May, 2025
No Sugar Added
On April Fool’s Day, Tom thought it would be funny to replace the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt, and yeah, it was pretty funny to see the [...]
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Apr, 2025
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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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 [...]