The Passport
An August rerun for your reading pleasure! Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: he had no passport, typing blind, a friend went with me, winds off of Carmel, [...]
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Aug, 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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Feb, 2025
White Violets
The prompt for this was to use the names of Oscar winning movies. I chose The Shape of Water In late February Marcella found a meager crop of unevenly spaced [...]
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Feb, 2025
I Didn’t Know He Was the Devil
These prompts are from Two Sylvias Newsletter: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”-flower prompts!—bleeding heart, devil’s backbone, cupid’s dart, angels’ trumpet, fairy bells, lamb’s ear, hen and chicks, sneezeweed, ghost pipe, [...]
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Jan, 2025
Spool
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: do you have any new memories?, he was not ready, dream, we the people, but first the table of contents, he [...]
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Nov, 2024
Lost and Found
As Thanksgiving approaches, I decided to share again this story from last year, a tale of abundance, gratitude, joy. Susan lost her glasses one morning, early before seven o’clock, while [...]
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Sep, 2024
Play Ball
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 [...]
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Aug, 2024
Animal Magnetism
A Summer Rerun from 2021 Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: whatever you do, won’t piss off the crow; you can’t walk your alligator on the streets of [...]
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Jul, 2024
Notice What You Notice
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 [...]
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Jun, 2024
Afterlife
I wrote this with my Thursday night group, and many of the prompts were inspired by the Colbert Questionnaire from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. See if you can [...]