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When the Time Travel Agent Asks When and Where

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Flash Fiction, Magical Realism, Poetry

I choose San Francisco because I miss ocean air. I’ve been sleep walking in a dusty valley but the air in San Francisco is cold and saline. When you walk through it without a hat or scarf it’s bracing. You feel alive. I choose 1967, imagining the Summer of Love, thinking I might land in … Continue reading When the Time Travel Agent Asks When and Where

Malleable Memory

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Apparitions, Christmas, Creativity, dreamscape, Flash Fiction, Magical Realism, Mythology, Rain

Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts:  in a clearing by a river, driving to San Francisco in the rain, under the bleachers, out of touch with the child I was, she is the only one who knew me, chased by a large creature The first thing I remember is being chased by … Continue reading Malleable Memory