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6 Sep, 2024

Play Ball

Nancy Admin2024-09-06T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Flash Fiction, Magical Realism|Tags: Ballast, baseball, Elementary Teacher, Flash Fiction, Humor, Magical realism, Promotions, Wise Elder, Woman Power|

Written with the prompt: one at a time please “One at a time please!” Marilyn heard a shrill, almost frantic request from a woman at the far end of the [...]

Notice What You Notice

Nancy Admin2024-07-12T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Flash Fiction, Magical Realism|Tags: baseball, bedtime, coming of age, defiance, Dreams, Family, Feminism, Flash Fiction, Freedom, independence, Nancy Drew, power, wicca, witchcraft|

Time for a summer rerun! Enjoy! Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: don’t go there, quiet enough to hear your own heart beat, everybody knows your [...]

The Flint Girls Go To A Fire

Nancy Admin2022-04-22T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Memory, National Poetry Month, Poetry|Tags: Alhambra Theater, American River, baseball, Catholicism, English/Irish/Yankee, Family, fish on Fridays, flood plain, knitting, National Poetry Month, pink divinity, Poetry, prohibition, ragtime, rosaries, Sacramento River, See's Candy, Senator Hotel, sugar rationing, WWII|

This is a poem I wrote a few years back for my mother and her sisters. It's a bit of a ramble, but they all seemed to like it. My [...]