Stories on This Week’s Prompt
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Bed and Breakfast
Bed and Breakfast On their first wedded Valentine’s Day they had their first big fight. Angry and hurt, she ran out to her [...]
Susanna at the Cemetery
The yen of some folks to mix the presence of a dead body with the innocence of a child—“Come here sweetie and kiss your Great [...]
Mary, The Feminist
This is a tribute to Pussy Riot,
Artists as Activists, who believe their punk performances
are civic and moral [...]
A Rewarding Experience
But for a long time, being an oblivious sort of person, I, um, sort of forgot about it.
It’s a Mixed Bag
My first typing experience was on an old Royal manual. I could go like a bat outta hell on that thing, typing 80 words a [...]
Saying Kaddish
The words roll off my tongue despite years of disuse, their rhythm like music, like chant; like Ginsberg, like Dylan.
Now We Are Six (-ty plus)
My mother sometimes asked when she started looking old. I notice I look a lot more like her every day.
The Remarkable, Audacious Miss Jackson
Mame’s language ranges from bawdy to downright filthy to an ornate elegance that can entertain or intimidate. She adores [...]
Why I Blog
WHY I BLOG One evening several years ago, with no forethought that I recall, I sat down and determined to start a blog. [...]
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Writer’s Choice
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