The Shape Shifter
Who are you? Is the you you think you know authentic? Do you examine who you are, the portrait you portray, the person we’ve [...]
Untitled
Here are some variations on that old canard ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ – [...]
Wanting to be Susie S.
My journey through high school from 1959 to 1963 was more about what I wished I could be than about actually becoming my own [...]
Take the Best, Discard the Rest
Remember the old movie, “The Crying Game”, where one of the lead characters passes as a different gender until [...]
Judy’s Last Gift
Originally published for the prompt Random Acts of Kindness, I’m republishing this story here as my friend Judy was someone [...]
New Stories on Old Prompts
That Old Gang of Mine
We were basically "good kids" with no real criminal tendencies except a fondness for underage drinking.
Prompted By Aging
May 27, 2023
Past Stories You May Have Missed
You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
I told them I was only eight, but I promised the announcers that when I was older I would drink Stroh’s beer and use Speedway [...]
Prompted By Big Fan
April 17, 2016
Dance Class
As we prepared for bar mitzvah parties in 1964, my mother put me in a local dance class, which met in someone’s [...]
Prompted By Dance Crazes
February 24, 2017
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