Manna
Mama’s family never could afford to send her to college. From as far back as I can remember, she promised it would be different for me. “You are smart and [...]
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Sep, 2022
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Sep, 2022
Never Be Robbie
Never Be Robbie Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: he died ten years ago, I just want to win something, surrounded by her men, don’t get [...]
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Sep, 2022
Beaded Purse
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: notice what you notice, wait I said, green and blue tapestry, the only rule is there are no rules, I am [...]
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Sep, 2022
Fade to Blue
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: he had given up speaking to anyone but Molly, confidant and clown, double orange doors, Blue Planet, need a plan, must [...]
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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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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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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, [...]
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May, 2022
While Strawberries Are Still Green
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: the green ones are strawberries, yearning, simplified, summer, breasts, at my worst, wearing his BAM gear, so luxurious, top ten reasons, [...]